Seven years after his controversial "Reads" disquisition on male vs. female gender roles, Dave Sim has, in Cerebus #265, returned to the fray with "Tangent," a 20-page essay that further explores his thoughts on the subject. (Briefly: males are superior creative "lights," females are inferior non-creative "voids" leeching off the males, and modern civilization is being crippled by the "feminist/homosexualist axis's" attempts to emasculate men and turn them into women.) Sim, who believes he is making some crucial points that should be read as widely as possible, has officially waived all copyright to the essay, encouraging any and all interested parties to disseminate it. The Comics Journal has scanned in a copy of "Tangent," which can be accessed below.

The Comics Journal's editors wish to emphasize that the posting of this essay in no way represents an endorsement of the views contained therein which, as a matter of fact, they find (to various degrees) as nutty and loathesome - or moreso - as some of the more extreme Jack Chick tracts. This perception was apparently shared by Sim's (female) typesetter, who quit in disgust midway through keying it in (a principled decision that Sim mentions, and mocks, in the finished version of the essay itself).

- The Comics Journal staff

Note: Rather than post the entire thing in one long webpage, we've decided to break each of the five "tangents" into their own pages, each linkable from the others; the "Pre-Tangent preamble" is included with the first "tangent," while Sim's notice of public domain (from the inside back cover) is included with the fifth.

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