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** "For Jack Thompson, because Jack Thompson won't."
** But subverted here - [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/9/24/ "I don't know what the fuck you're talking about."]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127071640/http://radoff.com/blog/2011/03/14/pax-booth-babe-controversy/ PAX 2011 was criticized] for allowing [[Duke Nukem Forever]] booth babes (who were playing, more or less, actual women from the game), on the grounds that it was demeaning and objectifying. PAX 2012 was criticized for [http://www.destructoid.com/two-fun-people-were-asked-to-leave-pax-east-225430.phtml asking a scantily-clad official cosplayer playing the main character of] ''[[Lollipop Chainsaw]]'' [http://www.destructoid.com/two-fun-people-were-asked-to-leave-pax-east-225430.phtml to tone down her outfit], on the grounds that the organizers were threatened by female sexuality or were "anti-fun" or were hypocritical because they allowed scantily-clad cosplayers. [http://penny-arcade.com/2012/04/09/my-big-pax-post Mike's response was not positive.]
{{quote|How about all of you that hate me get together and have your own conference. I need you to decide if half naked girls are empowered or exploited because I’m doing my fucking best here and [[Failure Is the Only Option|it’s apparently always wrong]]. [[Moving the Goalposts|I swear to God I don’t understand how I’m supposed to know if I’m promoting the patriarchy or criminalizing the female body.]]}}
* [[Swapped Roles]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/03/23 For the] [[Rule of Funny]]. Gabe plays the [[Straight Man]] while Tycho does a faux [[Cloudcuckoolander]] impression, but they immediately revert back by the third panel.
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