#This is a callout post for Tatsuya Ishida

[jared-the-fool]

There is one thing a terf may excel at. Creating a rabbithole so deep and so horrific that you can't help but watch in horror and laugh at the sheer weight that they give to their beliefs. Not all terfs manage this, thankfully, but the ones that do should be viewed with caution, regular breaks, shared amongst groups, or a combination of all three.

[leatherdaddywendys]

Tatsuya Ishida's comics are ....certainly something. very, INCREDIBLY pick-me vibes. like "I'm the only good male radfeminist!!" just sucking up like that, completely ignoring that radfems repeatedly insist that men CAN NOT be radical feminists.

[beckyhop]

TW: transphobia, TERF/SWERF rhetoric

Okay, so first disclaimer: I am a cis woman, so please let me know if I’m stepping out of my lane at all here in regards to transphobia.

Second disclaimer: I wasn’t really a regular reader of this comic to begin with. I saw a few strips now and then, and I saw it hailed as one of the best webcomics around for years, but I couldn’t ignore this. I don’t normally start beef with other artists online, but when a comic I’ve actually heard of, one I’d actually seen respected by others in the webcomic community, ends up going in the direction it has...

Sinfest, the long-running webcomic written and drawn by Tatsuya Ishida since 2000, has gone into full-blown TERF territory.

Details under the cut.

Sinfest was already a bit (in)famous for its sudden swerve years ago into feminist philosophy, but lately said feminism has gotten more and more radical. Ishida has expressed a second-wave feminism approach to porn and sex work for quite a while now, to the point of even setting up a whole new forum for his comic specifically catered to the radical feminist portion of his audience.

So, I guess it shouldn’t have been surprising that recent strips have veered into TERF territory in addition to the SWERF nonsense.

You have a series of comics here where not only are gender stereotypes enforced by what is very clearly meant to be HRT, but apparently transition is equivalent to conversion therapy.

“But wait! Does he address non-binary genders as well?”

Sadly, yes.

I was informed of all this by a friend who had been holding out hope that maybe Ishida would stop being so ignorant, but had to finally give up after these recent developments.

Again, I don’t normally write callout posts, but when it’s a webcomic creator I’ve heard so much praise for over the years, I kinda feel like this should be addressed.

That may not be the highest amount of patrons + income I’ve seen for a webcomic artist, but it's not a very small amount, either.

Again, I’m not speaking as a fan or former fan, just someone who’s vaguely followed the webcomics community for over a decade now. Whether that means anything is up to you.