Guys do you really behave like this?

[Shadowras]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...655650&fref=nf

[Michael24]

No. I have never acted like that because I was raised to be respectful, not just towards women but people in general. And in all my years going to comic book stores, I've never witnessed that kind of behavior. Any guys who acted like that would have been swiftly booted out by the employees. My current LCS has a sizable female customer base and everybody gets along, chatting and laughing about stuff like the fans they are. We're all there for the comics we like and that's all that matters.

[Spike-X]

I don't, which isn't trying to say it doesn't happen, because it obviously does.

[ed2962]

I don't, which isn't trying to say it doesn't happen, because it obviously does.

Exactly. It doesn't happen at my store, but I believe it does happen.

What's funny is, the stuff on the early Simpsons show did happen in my real life..."Ugh, you no good kids, making me get out of my seat..."

[Marvell2100]

No, I don't.

[TroubleWithTrebles]

the only problem with this clip is buzzfeed's disingenuous pseudo indie/pretending to be non corporate stylistic rendering of the clip. And the fact that the female protag/"villain" is presented as a retailer : this shit happens but the people running the stores aren't doing it. But to be fair there there is an equal amount of this crap going on when it comes to people whom might seem conservative or politically correct on the outside trying to be helpful regarding women and non anglos and non breeders in comics.

Smug is smug, and anyone - whether white, black, latino, korean, pagan, calvinist, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, hermaph, old or young - who hasn't made more than $19k net from working in comics in any given year, is a complete a$$wipe and used tampon when they are smug on any subject relating to comics.

[TroubleWithTrebles]

In other words, aside from the fact that some talentless hipstertard ripped off the MORE talentless Linklater, here, the clip is fine.

And yes, thanks to negative integers, you can have less talent than a talentless person.

[Mikekerr3]

I was an adult before the whole comic book readers are geeks thing came up, so geekdom still puzzles me a bit. especialy as something to be proud of.

[CSTowle]

I've been lucky in that the last couple of shops I've gone to regularly are run by really decent people who are nothing like this, and have actually talked to customers who were rude or staring/generally making female customers uncomfortable. They have all tended to be much younger than say the "Comic Guy" from the Simpsons though, so maybe that's just a part of their generation's culture and having grown up with girls who were into comics/manga/anime/Magic/etc. About half of the people who play at our shop's regular Magic tournaments (it's a comic/gaming shop) are female, as opposed to about 5% regular comic subscribers. I'd like to say nobody I know would be like this woman in the clip, but I think about some of the regulars and I wonder.

[John Ossie]

No. I have never acted like that because I was raised to be respectful, not just towards women but people in general. And in all my years going to comic book stores, I've never witnessed that kind of behavior. Any guys who acted like that would have been swiftly booted out by the employees. My current LCS has a sizable female customer base and everybody gets along, chatting and laughing about stuff like the fans they are. We're all there for the comics we like and that's all that matters.

Same here. I've never seen it happen in my store but I've heard about it happening.

[Turn the Page]

The shop I frequent has a really cool and gorgeous girl working there, and I don't think I've witnessed her receive much or any harassment. I brings girls in with me quite often and they've never had any problems.

[Nick Soapdish]

Since I don't sell comics and am rarely around enough to observe the behavior of the manager or clerks, nor am I a woman, my response is almost completely meaningless, but hey, it's a weekend.

No, I have not personally experienced clerks wondering whether I should really express interest in a comic because I'm a woman, nor have I observed it. That might say something about the local stores, but it says just as much about me.

And it's still sexist. Only seeing Dark Knight Rises because of Anne Hatheway? I can see guys doing that, too. Even if porn is cheap now.

[Marvell2100]

There used to be two shops(sadly, down to one) in my town and as long as I've been going, I haven't seen anything like that. I've seen plenty of couples go in and I've seen female readers in groups and alone. No one has done anything out of the ordinary in my experiences.

In an interesting aside, I recently found out a co-worker goes to this shop so we started discussing comics over the past month. Another co-worker happened to walk up on our conversation and he's like "You read comicbooks?", with the usual puzzled look on his face. I said yes, I've been doing it since I was a kid. I asked if he played videogames and he said yeah. I told him there's really no difference to me.

[Overhazard]

No, I don't act like that.

[TroubleWithTrebles]

When sexism happens in sports it gets on ESPN, when in the workforce it gets on Oprah and 60Minutes, in politics it gets on CNN, and in comics it becomes a crappy derivative overrated clip on buzzfeed. Designed to get clicks onto the ads, eyeballs on the ads, no different to standard TV.