I mentioned that Scott Adams, of Dilbert, featured one of my comics on his website. Well, I've gotten a bit of blowback from various people informing me that Scott wrote some anti-female things on his blog recently (he took the post down due to the controversy).
I read the piece (even though he took it down, others have re-posted it on the web), and I didn't think it was particularly heinous. The gist of it seemed to be: Yes, some things are unfair to men, but other things are unfair to women, so suck it up, dudes. The most controversial thing he wrote was an unflattering, inflammatory analogy (intended to be humorous), which he carefully explained in the piece, and he later published a post admitting that "analogies are fighting words."
Personally, I'm a pretty staunch supporter of women's rights, but I know entering into this particular fray can be a minefield. I drew the below comic years ago, and feared a massive controversy. I got nothing (and I was a bit disappointed).
My point was that supporters of equal treatment for women in the world of commerce, like me, should find some level of hypocrisy in the concept of separate men's and women's sports. But I think the comic was way too complicated, and many readers either missed the point or gave up on the comic before they could glean it. I liked the idea, though, and it's a shame I didn't come up with a simpler way to express it.
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