So I've read Nimona a couple years back and it was a pretty good webcomic. But looking more into Noëlle Stevenson was a weird trip. She's always struck me as a bit too... obsessed? Dogmatic maybe?
Anyway, I've stumbled on her chop chop webcomic last week and lo and behold, she has a thread here. I'm probably going to say things that were already mentioned, but I just want to let my thoughts about her out.
As I said, I found Nimona good. But then there was Lumberjanes - I didn't read that one - and the theme struck me a odd, putting women in a lumberjack role.... what for? I mean yeah sure, you do you, but I couldn't help but feel there was dogma behind this. Then there was She-ra. Like Nimona, (and not knowing anything about the old She-ra) I thought it was fine in a vacuum, but I think if she had full reign, there wouldn't have been a single straight couple. She seemed more gung-ho than in the Nimona era.
Last week I read her breast surgery comic, and oh boy, does it reek of body image issues. I've looked into it a bit further, and I found her coming out story (it has probably been linked here before)
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a34100347/noelle-stevenson-coming-out-story/
and that sheds a LOT of light on why she acts as she does. I had her pegged as a dogmatic crazy about gender, but in her case, issues run deep. Religious zealots parents, gay but struggled for years to understand herself and accept it, took a while for her to find love and acceptance, and probably a lot of bad sexual experiences. She seems like she's been through a lot. She comes across more like a lost little girl, even at 30, than a lolcow. She does crazy things like lobbing her breasts off, but I can just see the suffering in the stories she writes about her own past. She's been taken in by the dogma because she sought out a community of people like her... but the problem is, they're not "like her". She just can't see it for the trees. Well, at least, from what I have seen she doesn't come as the type of person who'd be part of a Twitter witch hunt. (May be wrong there)
For her breasts, it's probably that she hates being looked at sexually by men, and I can't blame her here either. It probably reminds her of the straight sex she had, and she must feel bad and ashamed of it. Probably lots of her body image issues came from here.
Her obsession with pushing queer works is probably driven by guilt toward herself, and/or anger toward a society that "taught her to deny herself" and I can't really blame her for that. Queer works are fine, but she's going too far because she's full taken by the "SJW dogma" for lack of a better word. It taints her works imo. I wish she'd make more stuff like Nimona. It had gay guys, and a queer protagonist, but it was lowkey and well done, realistically it's something that could happen. Lumberjane, what are the odds for 4 women and a tranny to end up in a cabin chopping wood?
Last, I saw what happened about the racist joke. She's still damaged if she thinks she's done anything wrong. I think she's projecting her suffering onto the Twitter users who claim to "have been hurt" by what she said. She knows suffering, she doesn't want others to suffer. But in reality, no one was hurt, no one suffered, She got played, to be that day's scapegoat. Her joke won't even have any long term social impact, it's a drop in the ocean at worst. But her groveling and "making amends" and deciding to hire a "racism consultant", that she'd do this, it's just sad to see.
Pitiful.
