Ishida's views couldn't be clearer.
I stopped reading Sinfest 15+ years ago, and honestly didn't know it was still around. Something started feeling "off" about it even back then.
Ishida's stance on Feminism has always been incredibly odd. He preaches it like he believes in it, yet he has those incredibly conservative stances on porn, Transgender issues and... Yeah, I dunno.
Sinfest changed a long time ago into this attempt at being a heavily feminist comic, so this TERF and SWERF turn looks legit for him. It sucks since I used to really like it.I honestly can't tell if they are transphobic or a parody of transphobia. I haven't read Sinfest in a long long while, but I remember it being pretty sharply written alongside a bunch of juvenile humor.
The comic's almost sudden change into extremely beat-you-over-the-head feminism always felt incredibly odd and bizarre. I agreed with the general ideas, but it felt so abrasive and preachy that I always questioned if the author was coming from a not-so-great place with his beliefs. The comic starting to preach TERF ideas makes it all fall into place, honestly. He's come full circle into preaching a toxic, transphobic form of feminism.sinfest as always been a very strange right-leaning "feminist" comic since the upheaval.
The SWERF turn happened a decade ago when sex workers in the Sinfest universe were depicted exclusively as either inhuman demon slaves of Satan or disposable robots exploited only as property for men. The TERF stuff is significantly more recent I guess? This is the first attention I've paid to Sinfest in at least 5-6 years.Sinfest changed a long time ago into this attempt at being a heavily feminist comic, so this TERF and SWERF turn looks legit for him. It sucks since I used to really like it.