This f*cking guy. This guy right here. Tony Harris, an award winning comic book artist, said this in a Facebook status:

So, according to Harris (and this is the TL;DR version), women at Cons should have to take some sort of test to prove that they deserve to be there. And that, if you’re cosplaying, you probably are skinny (or think you are) with mediocre boobs that men only find attractive because they’ve never seen boobs IRL.

This is the most mindless drivel that I have ever read. Not only that, this is insulting. Buzzfeed actually has a pretty good breakdown of what Harris said vs what he actually meant, but the gist of it is that unless you are uber hot and actually read comics (ie, you’ll need to know the details to every single damn comic book ever to prove your worthiness), then you don’t belong at Cons because you are merely fodder for the hordes of virgins’ masturbatory fantasies. Because you have low self esteem and need the approval of virgins. You should be ashamed of yourself, women. And it’s not at all like the men there aren’t sexually harassing you every chance they get, even if you are one of the “legitimate” cosplayers. Let’s not forget about Mandy Caruso, the cosplayer who was sexually harrassed by an interviewer at the NYCC.

Also, sidenote, how the f*ck are women supposed to cosplay without being half-naked when most of the characters who are women that are in comic books are HALF-NAKED? Maybe if artists like Tony Harris decided to appropriately clothe their characters, he wouldn’t have to deal with all that unattractive female skin flopping around, apparently ruining his life.

Seriously. Somebody throw a bucket of slop on Tony Harris the next time they meet him at a Con. I hear that pigs like slop.

thanks sumanon!