{"id":741,"date":"2007-10-13T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/10\/13\/follow-up-to-yesterdays-post-about-that-terrible-piece-of-writing\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T21:24:26","slug":"follow-up-to-yesterdays-post-about-that-terrible-piece-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up to yesterday’s post about that terrible piece of writing."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been invited to dismiss, point by point, the… let’s be\u00c2\u00a0kind and say “unsupported”\u00c2\u00a0notions in Heidi MacDonald’s essay<\/a><\/strong> yesterday. It’s quite tempting to do so, but to what end?\u00c2\u00a0You don’t get to write something like that and then play the “I was just trying to encourage debate!” card. Quite honestly, I don’t find that the arguments that Heidi has set forth are worth debating, or really, that they’re arguments<\/em> at all. Further, I feel like even engaging<\/em> it gives it an unwarranted weight, and I’m sorry for two posts on the subjects in as many days.<\/p>\n

Essentialy, I feel like this commenter at The Beat got it:<\/p>\n

“The vagueness of Heidi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s argument (more like a collection of complaints) demonstrates the lack of intellectual rigor and attention to detail that so much comics \u00e2\u20ac\u0153criticism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d trades upon – particularly, but unfortunately not only, in an online forum such as this one. Only through generalizing conflations such as those employed by Heidi can one reduce an entire art form to polarizing binary categories, which then sinks the whole discourse to the dumb level of attacking and defending.<\/p>\n

“Sweeping, provocative opinions need to be supported by analysis of detail in order to avoid coming off as mere gut reaction or the whims of taste.”<\/p>\n

– Stephen Hirsch<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/can-anyone-here-tell-a-story\/#comment-458874<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t see saying much else about the situation as it currently stands. I just don’t think there’s anything worthwhile there, despite, as Tom mentioned, the ‘broad emotional appeal’ of the piece. It sounds a lot like my cartoonist friends bitching after a few pints at the bar, and I tend to hold that to a slightly different intellectual standard than criticism or debate. Usually I just order them another drink, secure in the knowledge that they’ll feel better in the morning.<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been invited to dismiss, point by point, the… let’s be\u00c2\u00a0kind and say “unsupported”\u00c2\u00a0notions in Heidi MacDonald’s essay yesterday. It’s quite tempting to do so, but to what end?\u00c2\u00a0You don’t get to write something like that and then play the “I was just trying to encourage debate!” card. Quite honestly, I don’t find that the … <\/p>\n

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