#swordbearers comic

[sinceredragonslander]

God I hate that "misogyny hurts men too" note on that page.

I get the themes SongDog is attempting to explore but the way she's going about it is weird at best.

How exactly are the stallions being harmed in any way that's outside of their power? They don't have to fight. There doesn't seem to be any reason to partner since there's no danger. There hasn't been any social benefits or detriments shown to partnering or refusing to partner.

A page after men fighting to assault a woman is not the time to be like "misogyny hurts men too :(". LITERALLY HOW. You have not shown any detriments to being a stallion in this society or in the lore of your universe. The mares seem doomed to getting the shit end of the stick.

To be honest the very concept of how partnering works rubs me the wrong way. So the mare just ceases to have all bodily autonomy and just has to take whatever pain the stallion gives her? Crazy work. I really fail to see how this benefits either of them. The stallion feels no pain, sure, but that just makes him more likely to get killed by ignoring his wounds and the mare just suffers I guess. How is having two able-bodied fighters a worse option than this?

I don't fully understand how the partnering works in Swordbearers, again, because I'm not following it. But so far I have no idea how or why are these unicorns surviving as a species with this system.

And yep, that comment is super out of place there. Imagine a similar one in I Didn't Know, "oh, but the Holy Father is hurt too, because he can't have a family" type of shit. Eh, putting a comment like that would probably get your ass blocked.

I don't think Songdogx is going to manage to succesfully pull these themes off as they did with I Didn't Know. The concept of opposite genders being unable to understand eachother sound good in paper, but tough as nails when it comes to develop it.

[sinceredragonslander]

oh my god, can the primary theme of an animal comic *not* be that most men are sexual abusers and all women are subject to constant sexual abuse, please? Was really hoping that "Swordbearers" was not going to go in that direction, but nope. We've seen the main character get metaphorically assaulted 4 times in 27 pages, 2 of which were over their explicit "no," and one of which was attempted via subjugating mind control. Come onnnnnn can we *please* get a xenofiction comic that explores societal issues with gender/sexuality with some SUBTLETY for once? By all means, explore issues of consent, but making every single man an abuser or enabler and every single woman or female-presenting character a victim is so tired and uncreative, and totally fails to get at the actual insidious forms of sexism and misogyny that need to be addressed in modern society. Ugh.

Is that what is going on in Swordbearers?

LMAO, maybe the tinfoil theory was right and both Swordbearers and The Dragon Slayer copied eachother homework.

But you know, anon, they're just indie artists! You can't ask them to do complex stuff (unless you're complimenting them on how profound their work is).

Men bad, women weak and powerless, except Mary Sue Protagonist, who kicks ass and is not like the other girls.

[sinceredragonslander]

Mmmmmmmmm songdog is censoring comments again

someone made a comment talking about its so sad people dislike Cassio (a cis man and canonical mysogynistic abuser) because oh look hes doing the bare minimum and calling the main character by the correct pronouns

Found the comment thread. I wonder if the "heated" comments were only made against the Cassio defender or someone did snuck in a critic against the comic wich prompted the full elimination of the thread. Very bad faithed theory, but this is SD we're talking about.

Comicfury readers choosing to be illiterate to defend their male character, nothing new.