4.18.2012

Apologies: Doing them right (The Oatmeal Edition)

For those who asked:

- This morning The Oatmeal posted a rather cruddy comic.



- The Twitterverse and Blogosphere understandably blew up.
- The Oatmeal kind of apologized.
- The Twitterverse and Blogosphere were still understandably pissed.
- The Oatmeal apologized the right way.

 I apologize to any female gamers who I offended.  I didn’t mean to perpetuate the idea that women are treated more nicely while playing games online.  It sounds like in a lot of cases the opposite is true.

In short:  I’m sorry for making a stupid comic today. 

Lastly, apologies on the internet mean about as much as farts do in outer space. So I went ahead and donated $1,000 to the Women Against Abuse foundation. 

Hugs and asspickles, 

-Matthew

Yay. Major points to him for being a decent human being, humble/brave enough to admit a mistake and cool enough to make amends for it.

3 comments:

B.Martin said...
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thelsdj said...

You linked the first part of the comic but embedded the other part so its not clear what is what.

Pragmacat said...

@thelsdj Fixed!