Apparently he was riffing on Spicy Tales, Oriental Tales, and Zeppelin Tales, which were all Pulp mags, and full of the problematic depictions you would imagine. I knew about Zeppelin Tales, so could guess, but as someone else said, it's a joke that depends on your knowledge of 80yo pulps to get, and it isn't funny when you do.
I absolutely agree there's good grounds for a panel in sideshow culture. It's the objectifying and sexualizing* language that is the problem.
*Disabled people absolutely need to be seen as sexual, but not solely as a sexual fetish.
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Date: 2016-08-02 11:10 am (UTC)I absolutely agree there's good grounds for a panel in sideshow culture. It's the objectifying and sexualizing* language that is the problem.
*Disabled people absolutely need to be seen as sexual, but not solely as a sexual fetish.