I don't know why everyone's got their panties in a bunch; I think this is hilarious.

We've come a long way when everyone isn't just laughing at this situation, and some show sensitivity toward gender variant people. We've still got a way to go to find acceptance and equality, but I am glad people are standing up for fairness and understanding.

So really, it's just an issue that he was too insinsitive, but he's not being MALICIOUS.

He was just making a joke. :\ It wasn't a good one, but he thought it would've come out funny, and thus made the joke. Btw, SFLegend, that argument gains validity only when human pregnancy starts to sometimes give out dragon brains to babies.

What's with all the comments about mining?

"It's not bi-anything if she identifies as a woman."

A yes, the old "Fuck you, I'm a dragon" argument.

It's not bi-anything if she identifies as a woman.

This would only make sense if it was a man hitting on the Prof.

Of course you could just change the pun to something trans related... Trans-dimensional Traveller?

Either way, logic fail.

@not shocked
1. ignorant and homophobic?
2. surprised?
3. UNSUBSCRIBED!?
can you read what your typing? because i dont think you can :/

Win

What an incredibly ignorant and homophobic comic. Surprised at Nerf Now, usually its light and funny, but I just can't let this go.

unsubscribed.

[url=#user_comment_63141]@a[/url]: Why don't you take a seat, right over here. Just take a seat. What are you doing here?

Well I found it pretty funny, don't see what is so bad bout it

I foresee a new story arc!

Some puzzles are best left unsolved.

Min-

...actually, I suppose I'll pass on this one.

[url=#user_comment_63128]@Arb[/url]: Except if it's about gays it should be a gay joke. Trans individuals have nothing to do with homosexuality. They're two different subjects. Nothing wrong with removing ignorance. No speech suppression here.

[url=#user_comment_63128]@Arb[/url] calm down, I'm pretty sure that they are just our usual trolls.

[url=#user_comment_63101]@wkz[/url]: Miners are fun. They're all perverts and pedophiles, so you can make fun of them and others will join in.

Eh this is why jokes like this should be avoided. The gay bashers and gay rights people are equally douchebaggy and all need a slap to the face. Everyone shut up, it is a web comic. If your self-image is so fragile a picture gets you riled up you deserve to be insulted.

[url=#user_comment_63114]@Serathis[/url]: The trans jokes on Sexy Losers were always my favorite. But they were also presented well.

Also, I actually grinned at this comic.

I'm not finding this offencive. I'm bi btw. But I guess it wouldn't work very well if it was Professor Layton and the Transgender Village.

wow, one bad pun, almost no homophobic comments, but a wave of ranting, frothing, brats who act like this was a physical assault on their every being. Grow up, if this is enough to offend, you need to find a deserted island to live on.

Speaking about crosdressing and such: http://sexylosers.com/230.html

NSFW!

What a lovely concidence. I'm clearing that game

The "Troll NOW!!" button was never as accurate as in this comic!

Jo probably didn't even know what can of worms he was opening with this comic. His objectification of female characters always bothered me, but it usually seemed innocuous (if immature).

Either way, this comic fails. If you offend or alienate part of your audience, it should at least *funny*.

@Dead Herald: I'm sure that's the case, which is why I'm not upset. But I believe it's misinformed.
http://www.tvfanatic.com/gallery/isis-tsunami-photo/
Being "bi-curious" has nothing to do with being transgendered.

@Dead Herald: Actually, I think this is the great Jo counter-attack on "Mine"-ing...

Jo isn't trans-hating, he's just making a joke. At least that's what it looks like to me.

[url=#user_comment_63096]@Jade[/url]: Normally, I don't mind a little transgender or sexual humor in general. But I just feel it just didn't 'work' here. It might just be my own perception here, because I can't really give a rational reason. Or I could be detecting some uncanny valley from the transgendered person. Dunno.

Suffice it to say, to be 'bi-curious' has nothing to do with one's own dress. 'Bi-curiosity' is one's sexual orientation which means you are attracted to both sexes [or questioning that you may be], not dressing as though you're both. Thus this comic confuses gender identity and sexual orientation.

[url=#user_comment_63086]@Julia[/url]: :) I find trans jokes are only bad when people don't understand the difference or presume that transgendered individuals are only male-to-females (one never sees female-to-male trans jokes [would anyone ever call a man who was born female a 'trap'?]).

@existential or absolute: Actually they're referred to as 'Gender-queers' and they typically don't identify as 'male and female,' but neither. They may dress like a male one day or a female another, but typically, whether they are biologically male or female, they tend to dislike the gender binary.

in conclusion, i'd say the comic would be better off reworked to take out the transvestite, as long as a new riddle could be worked in, in order to avoid the implication of a claim of universal transvestititude in residents of the Bi-Curious Village.

also it's 'universal', not 'absolute'. oops.

if all residents of the Bi-Curious Village are transvestites, there is a problem. but while it's odd to use this singular entity to represent the village in this comic, as though they were all transvestites, it was a tool to approach the riddle. the execution was shaky, but i doubt Jo's a homophobe.

so it's impossible for someone to exist who wants to identify as both male and female? it's impossible for such a person to be bi-curious, having previously had sexual encounters with only one sex?

I really don't see anything "trans-hating" here. I see a joke, and a pretty funny one. Sure, bi-curious isn't the most accurate descriptor, but Jo's English isn't the best. I appreciate it for the joke it is. Stop freaking out.

[url=#user_comment_63082]@Jade[/url]: Thank you for actually knowing something about the subject. I hate trans jokes, most people don't know shit and are just plain offensive.

Eh...cover the face, and it might be tappable.

THEY DO NOTHING!!!

Maybe this person is indeed a drag queen [transvestite]. Because no true trans-woman would have a beard or say they were "both." As long as people understand the difference, this is harmless.

Oh, joy, I really needed trans-hating with my comic today. Seriously, this is really troubling and unnecessary.

The word play alone of the Bi-Curious Village is gas for me.
The idea of a village that allows and welcomes all sexual preferences and how a stranger would react to it, would also create comedy.

[url=#user_comment_63067]@Troll[/url] should be: "Problem, Internet?" *trollface.jpg*

I don't see the problem at all *coolface.bmp*

I totally fucking would

Serious, why the fuck are people mad at this? Suck it up, grow a fucking pair, and then realize that YOURE ON THE INTERNET. YKNOW, THAT PLACE. I mean fuck guys, seriously. This is why straight white males hate you all: you all bitch too much and then make fun of everyone else.

@Seriously? -- Your logic is flawed to say the least. Argumentum ad populum. Just because "other webcomics" have made this kind of tasteless joke doesn't make it okay. And most gaming webcomics aren't as well known as Nerf Now, thus not many even read their hate messages.

Honestly, if you guys can't take a joke, why are you even reading Webcomics in the first place? Other webcomics make FAR worse references, and you're worried about a single joke here?

Deleting my comments isn't going to change anything, Jo. Portraying gay/bi people this way isn't kosher anymore, and you make the rest of the 20-something male gamer demographic look bad by posting something like this. Everybody loses, including you.

I dont get it...

Can Joe haz camera hat? I feel your pain with the replay editor, it really isn't for video editing. That said I have one in the works, time will tell if people like it.

Somehow, I just find this one kinda tasteless...

<3

@Dead Herald: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/8/8a/Heavy_laughlong02.wav

Transphobic, biphobic nonsense. It's not a bad pun, it's a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation of what bi-curious means. None of those clues have anything to do with being "bi-curious".

VG Cats isn't bad sex humor. It's just bad.

[url=#user_comment_63032]@Beelze[/url]: *badum-ksch!* http://tinyurl.com/2d3ndht

So suddenly Nerf Now became VGCats? Bad sex humor and all.

LoL, I knew all the miners on this site were homophobes.

Would make more sense if she didn't look like a trannie X(

More like...professor LAID-A-TON and the Bi-Curious Village.

Kind of a Melena thing going on here, was hot til she showed the lower part of her.. his?.. whatever's face

This puzzle is worth 0 picarats.

NICE.

It beats those lame math riddles. =P

If you listen closely you can hear homophobic dicks shriveling up.

I just threw up a little.

You know they aren't all ugly and unshaven. In fact if I sent a TG friend of mine this thing, she'd probably light all your dicks on fire.

With actual fire, she's kind of violent. =P

it's the anti-mine

Talk about yer diabolical boxes.

wha...

Riddles are fun.

Hot.