Als Antwort auf David Revoy

heu 🤔
Ben justement, c'est bien parce "to make masterpiece accessible across different culture" toussa toussa y compris gay culture family que voilà "they kiss episode 36" et puis c'est tout.
Et si ça expose tes "children" tu leurs explique et tu nous break pas les nuts!
Oh mais c'est bon à la fin 😡

(edit: ça s'adresse bien sur à Avid Reader hein, pas à David Revoy. J'chuis colère, un peu)

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Als Antwort auf David Revoy

My personal recommendation (absolutely feel free to not care^^) would be to just delete/archive the mail and be done. I respect your choice and agree with you 100% and understand why you want to share it, but to me personally it feels strange to make that public. At least with an Screenshot of the mail and so on. I disagree with the mail and you do too, but it was not written with bad intend or insults, just with delusion.
Als Antwort auf Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@pteryx @unixorn His Email did not portray him as a fascism

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

He can not censor anything

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorsh…

What does a public roasting cause? Virtual clap on the shoulder from people who support you anyway (nothing changes) + more hate and anger from people who do not support you (negative).

imho he asked question politely enough, that i don't think this Twitter-like-style of public slaughter is necessary. Again, my personal opinion, nothing more.

Als Antwort auf 白川間瀬流

@vamp898 @pteryx @unixorn Hey 白川間瀬流, the politeness of the message is an illusion.

It's full of manipulation tactics such as flattery and seduction ('masterpiece/wonderful/beautiful/magical') , a call to social norm (eg. "many conservative parents worlwide", "different cultures"), playing the victim (eg. "more accessible", also a 'mirroring' tactic using a vocabulary used by people caring about other humans).

Showing it publicly might prepare and help more vulnerable authors receiving this.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

@pteryx @unixorn I do not disagree with that. Either he is very clever or naive.

Either way, especially when he is actually clever, he archived what he wanted. spreading anger. I 100% understand your urge to call him out, but i fear that maybe is exactly what he wanted so he can say "I wrote a nice mail and got roasted, those people are bad, they prevent free speach".

How about using this Mail as inspiration for something good? Short Spin-off focusing on the relationship?^^

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

I always try to view things from both sides. So, as a parent, you may think that "cis heterosexual" is the path of least resistance and it may prevent difficulties for your child in the future. I have some understanding for this view.

However, apart from what they may think is right for the child, it won't change the reality that same-sex relationships exist and should be accepted as normal. Less common perhaps, but normal.

Instead, they attempt to warp reality for their children.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

People.

People can express their opinion, but at times we do so without being thoughtful or considerate.

How long do they plan on their children living with them so as to "avoid exposing" them to reality?

Have they reflected on how they are "exposing" their children to their devaluation of some people over others and the long-term effect that will have in their interactions with others?

Also, them asking YOU to change to accommodate them, ugh - Rude, no matter the sweetness.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

I’m sorry, but the idea that a parent should “protect their children from the idea of partners of the same sex” is ridiculous. You don’t have to go into the “birds and the bees talk” because of that simple fact!🤣
The couple were kissing! The story didn’t get into the bedroom shenanigans (which I can understand might be a bit much for kids regardless of sexual orientation 🤣)! Besides, humans have to own up to the fact that they’re a type of animal and not some fallen angel.
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Right, because kids can only see a man and a woman kissing on the lips. As if same-sex, same-gender kisses are heretical and utterly forbidden, it'll turn your kids gay and trans!

As if children would even care about this distinction in the first place, without their parents intervening and feeding them religious or bigoted slop through indoctrination.

I for one, never had an issue with this, ever since I was young. I managed to stay away from deep religious beliefs despite having an Orthodox upbringing up until I was 12.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

The good thing is: I now have a new thing to read and enjoy.
Don’t let your energy be consumed by such emails. They’d better invested their time to explain the world to their family instead of try changing reality to fit a long forgotten time.
For my followers, it is available in many languages (link to german): peppercarrot.com/de/webcomic/e…
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Let's be frank, they're always US people. 🙄 There's hardly another culture this entitled.

Miriam Bonastre Tur recently had to age her main characters three years up because US people couldn't tolerate 18 and 19 year old characters drinking at a party. m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/mari…
TBH, I always thought it's already a compromise that they're 18 and not 16. It would fit the world building much more for them to be younger. But apparently, people can't accept fiction as fiction anymore. 🙄

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@Suiseiseki @anathem @valkyrie You are right. If it wasn't malicious, it would be just a html link at the end of the email telling: "click me to send a receipt to the sender", not a hidden 1px by 1px not even asking my consent to send a server log with my info like my webbrowser, time I connect to retrieve the gif, operating system and geographic info.
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

May I suggest your lawyer identify the mailing address of this individual and perhaps respond as the lawyer of the Cleveland Browns did to differently stupid correspondence.

snopes.com/fact-check/clevelan…

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Write back:

Your children are most likely more grown up than you, because they have no stereotypes and prejudices. You might want to take yourself an example on them, unless you want to project your smallminded perspectives on them and narrow their view on the world for the rest of their lives. Let them find their own place without bias.

And David:
don't your dare change a thing on the story! Nobody cares if she does not like it, a thousand others do, very much.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

How about sending the characters to a conversion camp where they get tortured until they renounce their true feelings and spend the rest of their life in psychological agony caused by denying their true feelings?

Would you be willing to do that to satisfy this concerned parent?

It would serve as a warning to their children as to what parents like this are willing to do to them.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Somehow toots like this make me find the support page :blobgrin: peppercarrot.com/en/support/in… :blobrainbow:

Stay strong and keep up the good work! 🌈💪

#homophobia #censorship #gay #Christian

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

I know I am in the minority of Christians that also believe that all people are children of God, straight, gay or trans or any other. I'm glad you are not changing your art; it wasn't wrong so there's nothing to fix. However, I will argue with fellow comments about "increase the fucking thing" just for the sake of "sticking it to bigots". Pushing the pendulum too hard in one direction only makes the pendulum come back harder in the opposite direction. We should strive for harmony.
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Good for you.

Indirectly, I suppose I should thank the bigots. Now I've found a new web comic to read. Just a few episodes in, and it is charming.

I find the "I'm just trying to help you get seen by more people" tone strongly indicative of AI slop messaging.

Such folks have trouble even feigning concern for someone else. The writing is soulless, presumably like the prompter.

Keep in exactly as much gay as you think your story warrants.

I love seeing folks be creative.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

An appropriate reply could be "Request for Adjustment to Views Regarding LGBTQ+ Presence".

Their argument, that their suggestion would be accommodating of different cultures, is quite erasive of the presence of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.

It's an example of misappropriating the language of inclusion towards oppression; i.e. it's another form of "tolerating the intolerant", where they want their intolerance of historically marginalized communities to be the dominant and only visible view.

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Als Antwort auf David Revoy

I remember when my 8 year old daughter first saw this panel she felt confused and embarrassed, and it was an excellent cue for us to explain to her that yes, sometimes girls love girls and there's nothing wrong with it. I think it was her first introduction to the idea of same-sex love, and seeing it in her favorite comic made it easier to understand. Thanks for that!
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@piku Thank you, yes okular.kde.org/ has a thumbnail with this episode on it: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e…

💜 Okular

Als Antwort auf nboynorge

@nboynorge ☺️
You can scroll episode 36 here: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e… to find the panel in the context of the episode.

The comic page in English with the panel in high resolution is here: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/ep3…

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

Thanks! Reading this episode out of context, I didn't immediately realise which pair was supposedly being too gay, because the kissing couple's assumed genders aren't obvious to me.

What *is* very obvious is the "make love not war" message. If one misses that, they're clearly not trying to propagate the message of the comic.

I wonder if your books are about to be banned in some libraries across the pond.
lccn.loc.gov/2019202002

#PepperCarrot

Als Antwort auf LisPi

@lispi314 @ache yes, a license notice with what was changed by the author of the derivation.
I tried to make a documentation about the best practice for attribution once, peppercarrot.com/en/documentat…
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

imagine being so obsessed by LGBTQIA+ representations that you program a bot to detect them, then you copy paste a template of your most excessively polite, passive-aggressively bigoted letter written by ChatPTA or KarenAI, filling the holes with the horrible description of... checking notes two girls kissing and a third one stating the obvious.
Als Antwort auf Arthur Vuillard

@arthru ☺️
Alors pour Lyon, rien de prévu mais la semaine dernière une médiathèque à fait un appel à auteurs et un copain m'a fait postulé après m'avoir demandé si ça m’intéressait. Donc, affaire à suivre, si ça ce fait, ça sera sur le blog.

Sinon, en date prochainement: j'ai Paris début Mars, Limoge fin Mars, et Saint-Brieuc en début Juillet. Idem, je posterai deux semaines avant les événements des billets sur mon blog.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

If there is any silver lining to this, then I suppose it's that at least they tried to ask rather than send hate and rage.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that they don't seem to respect your choices. But in this polarized world, I'll admit that it was... somehow a relief to see someone with a world view I fundamentally disagree with try make a polite request rather than a hateful demand.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

these are not "concerned" individuals there are operational radical groups out there to censor accessible media such as yours. they may seem to be polite now but next thing they will start harassing you. consider outing their names and email addresses. please don't cover for them. it helps to know and document their reach and network.
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@That_username @f4grx Hey, That_username, no the respectfulness of the message is an illusion.

It's full of manipulation tactics such as flattery, charm and seduction ('masterpiece/wonderful/beautiful/magical') , a call to social norm (eg. "many conservative parents worlwide", "different cultures"), playing the victim (eg. "more accessible", also a 'mirroring' tactic using a vocabulary used by people caring about other humans).

Respectfulness in surface but not at core is not respectfulness.

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

My Little Pony had to do this self-censoring in one episode. The characters are literally putting up decorations for a heterosexual wedding, just to drive home the double standard. youtube.com/watch?v=orhTsQ8pVz…
Als Antwort auf David Revoy

this is an incredible email to write ! How can people feel so much fear/hate toward a representation that :
- Is literally a display of love
- Is not about them or impact them in any way
- Is a work of *fiction*
(- and of course respect consent)

Wanting to impose your life choices on others, about absolutly harmless choices, is something I just don't understand. I feel so sad for the children raised by parents with this kind of consideration in mind 😞

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

What a bloody cheek! As we say here in the UK. I get the feeling that this might be part of a bigger campaign by not just this person but others too. I hope they get LOADS of pushback.

Not that you have to but I would be so tempted to write back along the lines of, yes, isn't it wonderful that there are many couples, same-sex, opposite-sex, etc, who love each other and it is such a joy to write about them all! With your encouragement I'll write even more about same-sex couples!!

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

What I find most offensive about this "request" is the idea that somehow it's a good thing for you to compromise your creative vision so that it's palatable for an audience you have no interest in catering to in the first place.

I'd be inclined to say something like "Thank you for your email, but I fear you are mistaken about the nature of your relationship to Pepper & Carrot. It is not intended for people who aren't comfortable sharing same-sex relationships with their children."

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

The key is patience not aggression.

I'm no homophobe, at least I think I'm not. I have gay friends, hell a very good gay friend was the best man at my wedding. With older folks, genZ and below Media did not portray homosexuality often.

It's like making a vegetarian consume meat or vica versa.

Not everybody can deal with a quick change like that.

Be patient a little more informative. Aggression won't f

Als Antwort auf David Revoy

"Christian Values" have little to do with it. It is a cultural response.

I am a christian. - just know that Jesus himself chilled not with the "those who upheld the Law" but with those outside of the normal "the law" who are not only the sinners but also tax collectors etc.

The issue is media exposure from a cultural perspective. Homo/bi/etc sexuality was never a common thing in media over the ages.

Media is consumed. Ask a veggie to suddenly eat meat and vica versa..WWJD?