The title of this article is sarcastic.
Legendary comic book artist/writer John Byrne is an interesting person with a lot opinions that are: unusual, bizarre or widely considered to be offensive (sometimes all 3 at once).
He like to fight people whose opinions differ from him own, including himself.
He rules his message board “Byrne Robotics” with an iron fist (yeah, yeah bad pun). It’s his little fiefdom of absolute power where he can say as many idiotic things as he wants without consequences and can ban whoever he wants that annoys him. The top 2 ways to ensure being banned are: wining an argument with him or supporting of the 2nd Amendment in any way (he thinks only the police and military should be armed, anybody else = a criminal).
A recent quote by him.
Is it wrong of me to want Kim to nuke Hawaii just to prove Rump wrong?
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=53742&PN=2&totPosts=17
Let’s examine this for a moment.
Byrne is a guy that’s justification for being against the 2 Amendment is that 20 kids were killed at Sandy Hook by guns and human life is wasted by gun violence, yet he would would like the United States to come under nuclear attack and kill millions in order to make a POTUS he doesn’t like look bad.
That makes sense.
As of this writing there are 587 people registered to his board. Of those, only one takes offense to this statement publicly on this board.
That isn’t really surprising given his statements that have gone unchecked on there over the years and the over-eagerness of a lot of people that post on there to fall over themselves in order to agree with everything he says.
Pedophilia
Pedophiles are almost certainly “born that way”. Again, we go to evolutionary conditioning. Seek the youngest, strongest, most healthy, for breeding purposes. A sure (or as sure as it gets) way to guarantee the survival of your genes.
Pedophilia also brings along a big heaping helping of learned responses, however. In a society like ours, where “normal” sex is considered by many to be filthy and disgusting, “abnormal” sex is of course even moreso. “Abnormal” in this case meaning anything—even simple physical attraction—that is not “age-appropriate”, heterosexual, and strictly for procreation. Preferably missionary position. Thus, any confused individual who finds himself attracted to young girls is likely to find himself attracted to increasingly younger girls, as part of his pattern of self-loathing. So much emotional torment—in victims and victimizers — would surely be set aside if our society was sexually liberated enough to even be able to say “Sure, it’s okay to be attracted to eleven year olds. Just don’t do anything about it!”
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35811&TPN=4
This isn’t the only remarks he has made on this subject. Back in 2015 he was lambasted online for comparing trans people to pedophiles.
What is particularly interesting with the above is that he likes to brag about his “young gal pals”, which have put him under a cloud of pedophilia suspicion in some fan circles for years.
Steve Irwin
Okay, time for me to rain on this parade. I didn’t know he had kids. Young kids. This alters the mix considerably. This makes him an asshole. Cops and firemen, to name but two, place their lives on the line every day to protect others. There was nothing Steve Irwin was doing that he could not have done—as did, say, David Attenborough—without putting his life at risk. This takes this from tragedy to stupidity, and, worse, irresponsibility.
I am glad this asshole is dead. Sorry for his wife and kids, but relieved they are in no further danger from his lunacy!
This guy should have been taken out of the croc pen, had his kids taken from him, and been thrown in the deepest, darkest, dankest pit the Australian judicial system has to offer. Preferably after being skinned alive. Asshole is too good a word.
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=14104&PN=1&totPosts=25
Hispanic Women
Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or “cute” they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don’t work for me with lighter shades. Like I said — personal prejudice.
Note: the link below contains the original “Byrne Robotics” hyperlink, but the thread appears to have been deleted.
http://williambrucewest.com/2004/10/10/273/
The “N Word”
There are lots of people who call black people “niggers.” Are both terms “right”? You seem to have missed the rather important point that my response indicated roughly the same percentage of fans and pros use the improper terms for various elements of what we do—but that percentage does not approach a balance. It is not that roughly half say “balloon” and half say “bubble.” It is that some say “bubble” and they are wrong.
Um…in point of fact there are plenty of people who use the word “nigger” because that is the word they use, not because they imagine it has any negative racial connotations. That’s precisely why I chose that word as my illustration.
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5466&PN=1&totPosts=73
Bad Byrne Stories
“Bad Byrne Stories” are what he calls “made up stories” that are designed to make him look bad including things such as standing up to rude fans at cons, etc.
However, given his remarks above and many more not used because I don’t have 97 hours to make a 10,000 page long article of his nonsensical quotes I think it is safe to assume that a great deal of these stories are likely true.
Serious question: Why would anybody need to make up stories to make him look bad when he does such a great job of it himself?
