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QUACKCAST 286 - Offence, walking on eggshells

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 30, 2016
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- Do you worry about offending specific people with your writing? Where's your line between honest expression and regard for other people's feelings? This was Bane's brilliant idea for a Quackcast. We touch a little on the idea of a “culture of offence”, where it seems that people look for things to be offended by, perhaps on behalf of others, but also about things that really CAN cause offence and how to avoid that. On one hand you have people complaining that everything is too “PC” these days, but on the other it's really not OK to be a dick to people just because you like to cling to the old days when it was fine to put down people on the basis of ethnicity, skin-colour, gender, or sexuality… But we can also cause offence accidentally, unintentionally, unknowingly… Should you compromise your vision to appease people, or should you forge ahead regardless? Keep in mind that some things that are fine for SOME audiences are offensive to others, so rather than fight with your audience or appease them perhaps it's better to try and actively direct your work at the CORRECT audience it's intended for? - speaking in terms of sex scenes, politics, etc.
Listen to the theme Gunwallace concocted for us THIS time! Geminni: Get down to the bad sounds of this classic funk rock tune! Danceable!

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Featured comic:
Military Variant - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Military_Variant/

Links:
Discussion on the “culture of offence” thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177550/

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Areine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/

Featured music:
Geminni - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Geminni/ by kaleygeminni M.

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Ozoneocean at 9:31PM, Aug. 30, 2016

Ha! Well I didn't think of deliberately seeking to cause offence! That's another aspect entirely. :D

rawdale at 7:46PM, Aug. 30, 2016

"The greatest enemy of art is good taste." - Pablo Picasso. If you seek to offend, make sure you're punching up and make a hamburger out of those sacred cows. Only an asshole punches down on those with no power.

Ozoneocean at 1:31PM, Aug. 30, 2016

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdHCb8CS5wBWMkzf56fAf5mtz_FFromnA there's the full playlist for Queer duck. That was hilarious!

Ozoneocean at 1:30PM, Aug. 30, 2016

I fixed that link Banes!

fallopiancrusader at 11:09AM, Aug. 30, 2016

That Gay Duck comic reminds me of an animated series that a friend of mine worked on. It was called "Queer Duck" https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=queer+duckhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=queer+duck

Banes at 8:00AM, Aug. 30, 2016

I'm just glad you were able to resurrect your old "Gay Duck" series! The page to listen to the episode isn't loading, though..

Ozoneocean at 4:58AM, Aug. 30, 2016

Thanks man! It was so much fun drawing the little comic. Very liberating to work rough like that. :D

Banes at 3:57AM, Aug. 30, 2016

Fantastic artwork, oz!!


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