The Four Color Media Monitor

Waid once quarreled irrationally with a feminist, and he does no better in his meeting with one of the women from Honey Badger Radio, whose exile from the Calgary Expo he supported full force. Here's a few from the exchange for starters:

@Typhonblue That’s a very cynical, snarky-ass way of asking and you know it. Try again?
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

@Typhonblue YAY EXTRA SNARK! Do you automatically get a pass for being rude just because you’re a woman? Sweet deal if so.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

I think he was just straw-manning at first, and didn't want to give a serious or reasonable answer.

@Typhonblue Always have. Not stopping now.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

@Typhonblue I specifically said I wasn’t telling anyone you shouldn’t have a booth-only that I wouldn’t feel comfortable going to —>
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

It makes little difference; he still backed expulsion regardless and was hostile to the woman's bunch. His defense here proves little.

.@Typhonblue You are presuming I would support you being deliberately intimidated. Huge stretch.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

But he did support her being thrown out just because she didn't agree with a form of feminism that take a victimology stance, yet must have no qualms over the Big Two's potentially bad attitudes towards women, compounded by their closed shop mentality.

.@Typhonblue You know what? I’d forgotten I did say that. I’ll own it, though. But I can understand why you wouldn’TSE yourself as such.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

.@Typhonblue Because I believe you falsified info to the show, and because GG is a group born from bullying and misogyny.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

So he's calling her a liar all the same. As for GG, I'm not sure why wants to think a group with politics similar to his is anathema to his beliefs after what he's either done or turned his back on in the past decade. Yes, seriously. And a reminder:

@Typhonblue @Chartoc @MarkWaid Were evicted from an establishment that they paid to attend, based purely on social media hearsay. Not okay.
— SinsOfScience #5700 (@TalesOfTheLee) April 23, 2015

They paid for their space, so why's he still calling her a liar? Also:

.@MarkWaid Evidence for "falsifying info?" So bullying a woman is justified because... #gamergaters bully women?
— Alison Tieman (@Typhonblue) April 23, 2015

Yeah, where's his proof? The man doesn't even have the courage to say he dislikes her.

.@Typhonblue That said, now that I’ve heard more, I don’t think you guys were bullies per se—but I despise your group’s cause.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

Yawn. He's just finding an excuse to stick by his tunnelvisioned opinion. Although he did say in reply to this exchange:

@chrisvcsefalvay @herbert45r @draginol @Typhonblue If that happened, and it probably did, then absolutely it was wrong.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 23, 2015

In that case, I don't suppose he's willing to be louder in his condemnations of anti-GG activists who've spouted obscenities? He's done very little to prove he wants to turn over a new leaf, and I don't see that changing in the future.

Here's more about the exchanges on The Outhousers.

Labels: conventions, misogyny and racism, moonbat writers, politics