I agree with you. It’s not a big deal. Your original comment wasn’t out of line, and if I were in your place I wouldn’t remove it.

But there is a big deal, and it’s this: you gotta learn to take comments like Kachina’s less personally!

It’s like if you accidentally dropped something on somebody’s foot. Don’t say “But I shouldn’t have to apologize, it’s not like I was aiming for where you were standing!”, or “But it’s not my fault, you need to be wearing steel-toed shoes for when stuff like this happens!”, or “What, I didn’t see it hit your foot at all! I think it missed your foot entirely!”, or especially not “Look, I’ve had way heavier stuff dropped on my foot in the past, I don’t think that really hurt you much at all”.

Those are all the wrong things to say, even if you privately think they’re true.

The right thing to say when you’ve hurt somebody unintentionally is “Sorry”. Getting up-in-arms about it will just cause shit-storms like the one you observed here.

If you can’t handle someone using a term you find DEEPLY PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE, you aren’t emotionally capable of being on the internet alone, much less reading a comic with adult language and themes.

Also if you think about it, sex IS gross. Fluids and mucus and all that all over one another. Icky.
(It is also a lot of fun. If it’s not, you’re doing it wrong.)

Otaku means nerd. In Japan, calling someone an otaku is considered an insult, but here, it is a badge MOST wear with pride.

It’s all in your perspective.

Look, you don’t know me. Growing up, no one liked me. I was the outcast. I was depressed, suicidal for several years in my preteen life. I wasn’t the popular girl, and you know what, people insulted me all the time. I would get kicked and hit in the hallway in school by complete strangers for no reason other than my appearance.

I’ve worked through a lot of bullshit in my life, and yes, you know what I’m PISSED that I’m being preached at about political correctness, about not being insulting to other people at something that I HAD NO INTENTION OF BEING INSULTING. If you’ve read the comments I post after each page this is kind of how I roll. I don’t think that I have to take responsibility for someone else’s oversensitivity.

Stop taking out your (the general your, not as you in you specifically, katie) social hangups and problems on other people. It’s not like I walked up to Kachina and was like YOUR FACE, ITS HIDEOUS OMG or jeeze you look so fucking weird. NO. Not at all! What I said was not intended to offend anyone, and the fact that this is so overblown out of proportion is just INSANE. I should NOT have to apologize for someone getting upset at a common descriptive term that honestly, isn’t that negative.

I am not, nor will I EVER, censor myself. If you don’t like that, then like I said, leave. Thank you for reading, I am glad you enjoyed what I had drawn and the story I was telling.