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_Infinitesimal Jest: Towards A Intertextual Metanarrative Of Subtextual Resonances Between XKCD and XKCD-Explained_ * It can and has been claimed by that the humor in XKCD is superficial, driven more by the dog-whistle power of recogition of cultural signs and signifiers than by a "true" or "significant" humor. Of course, an equally valid critical response questions the notion of "truth" and observes that the free pl…
This guy is writing a blog explaining the comic XKCD using a dry, faintly sarcastic tone. Note: He seems to have issues with XKCD's apparent feminist slant.
Although deconstructionism forces us to concede that any "slant" in XKCD is merely a textual artifact, and all critical perspectives on the work are equally valid, it is nevertheless more equally valid to conclude that XKCD's gender politics may be more self-serving to the author than a legitimate ( pace manocentric male-ocratic words like "legitimate") statement of empathy or outrage over the station of the modern w…
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You don't HAVE to use complicated words and sentences, you know. No one's impressed. No one sensible, anyway. Your content may be relevant or even valid but it's presented in an almost haughty lexicon. Unless you're parodying something in which case WOOOSH
The parent comment is a parody of self-important postmodernist "analysis". (Note that the scare quotes, or "scare quotes", around the word "'analysis'", are typical of our hegemonic, phallocentric culture.)
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I do wonder what leaps in logic get you from a stick figure's black hat to "Hasidic Jew’s black hat". Not only did those two posts forget the funny, they might actually create trouble for the xkcd (politically correct activist + google search + no understanding of humor or satire = pain in the ass). Stupider things have happened.
Okay, so you could ignore the obvious resemblance to the Hasidic Jew Hat ( http://bit.ly/29cFxJ ), I suppose. But then what about "Brown Thighs? = Eww." What is wrong with brown thighs? At some point I have to question if they guy is doing it subtly on purpose or just completely oblivious, and neither is good. P.S. We didn't "forget the funny." We went searching for it, and these descriptions are what we came up with…