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First of all, the person doing this cartoon is obviously a genre fan. Genre fans ALWAYS get picked on. You like comic books, anime, role playing games? People hate you, period. We face a prejudice more ingrained than that of race, sexual orientation or politics.
Millions of idiots put greasepaint on their faces in their football team's colors, wave big rubber fingers, get drunk and make fools of themselves at football games. If their team wins, they think nothing of setting fire to a few cars in the parking lot. And God help the poor hotelier who has to host a Shriner's convention; wreckage and staff abuse are rampant.
But gather a few people who have funny-shaped dice, who dress like Darth Vader or Lara Croft, or who watch Japanese cartoons, and who appreciate writers and artists on a personal level, and pompous anchormen and snarky journalists make fun of their lack of sexual success and social skills.
Then, there's the guy with his hand up the puppet. Robert Smigel. He also wrote the "TV Funhouse" cartoons for Saturday Night Live. He's one of those "Harvard Lampoon" alumni who've taken over TV comedy. As a class, they all write comedy that's smug, condescending and cruel. For the most part, they're white men of upper-class origins, and they don't like creative input from women or people of color all that much. (When they were with SNL, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtain and other non-whites and non-males had to beg, scream and plead to get their own comic voices heard. They usually had to accept the stereotypical parts guys like Smigel wrote for them.)
So yeah, this kind of comedy is insulting. What amazes me is how long it took for someone to note how few clothes the emperor has on.
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