My email to conservative idiot and homophobe Bruce Tinsley

[Maven]

Bruce Tinsley apparently has a new obsession: Brokeback Mountain. For Tinsley, it's not that right-wingers are homophobes, you see. Naw. They're just grossed out by two guys getting it on. Their hatred is just totally natural.

For the last few days, Tinsley has devoted his trash comic strip "Mallard Fillmore" to basically the same idea over and over again, changing a few words here and there to make it look like a series. Here are a few:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20060102
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20060103
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20060104
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20060105
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20060106

Here's my email:

Dear Mr. Tinsley,

You certainly do seem fixated lately on a certain film whose subject matter is so threatening, so disturbing, so—wait for it—gross, that it leaves much of its audience in tears. Yes, unrequited love hits me right in the gut, too. Social repression is just disgusting, don’t you think?

Your effort to redefine the word “homophobe” from a literalist standpoint is so quaint and, well, third-grade. You might learn some chemistry nomenclature and discover that “phobia” translates to aversion as well as fear. Perhaps the word “bigot” pleases your etymological palate. Fewer syllables for you to digest.

You are a bigot, Mr. Tinsley.

I’m sure you’ll continue to comfort the hateful, reassuring them that their bigotry is not bigotry, it’s just gut reaction. Thankfully, work so insipid and repetitive as yours isn’t likely to capture many young minds.

Cheers from the right side of history,

*me*

[yankeedem]

1. Nice job

But don't waste the electrons sending it to him. Send it as a letter to the editor to the newspaper where it was published. That strip is offensive, no matter liberal or conservative.

[davidinalameda]

2. write a letter to the editor

if enough people complain, then the paper will drop the strip

people like Tinsley are proud of their hatred

but hitting them in the wallet gets their attention

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. I Can't Believe The Star Tribune Actually Picked Up This Garbage

Thanx for the heads up, I'll let them know how I feel quite soon.

[tularetom]

4. Methinks he

doth protest too much. If he doesn't like it, he shouldn't go see it. But the constant repetitive theme makes it sound to me like he is in big time denial of something. What could that be do you suppose?