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...Tuesday installment of Bloom County, Berke Breathed makes it clear that Steve Dalla's alter-ego "fairy" is not a symbol of homosexuality but is instead a sort of conscience that is trying to cure Steve of his sexist "macho" complex. Only Dallas (and, it would appear, the Crimson senior executive board) equates sensitivity with homosexuality, and the ignorance he displays both in making this mental association and in disapproving of both kinds of behavior is precisely what makes Monday's installment (the one which The Crimson censored) funny...
...rest of Bloom County's February installments, I confess that I cannot find any examples of its having "tastelessly poked fun at several groups." unless one considers sado-masochists and giant snorklewackers to be oppressed minorities whose fragile self-images must be protected at all coasts. Grady Catterall...
...whole-heartedly support your decision to discontinue Bloom Country as The Crimson's comic strip. It's about time. I agree with your contention that the emotional stability of homosexuals and other social types is so fragile that this comic strip could cause them due anxiety. Although the rest of the country is reading and enjoying Bloom Country, I'm glad you had the sense to protect the Harvard community from this offensiveness. Who needs humor that lampoons our confused social mores? As a replacement, I suggest Heathcliffe. It's not funny and lacks insight, but at least...
Your withdrawal of Bloom County on Monday represents a casual disregard for the fundamental issues of journalistic responsibility and a crude and apparently deliberate misreading of the intent of the strip itself...
...removal of Bloom Country suggests that the transition from the safe and complacent liberalism of Garry Trudeau to Berke Breathed's absurdist anarchy was a more radical departure that The Crimson was willing to accept for long...