Hi there fellow deviants! I was feeling really bored, so im going to have fun with a new journal activity: Abandoned Concept Theater! In which i talk about concepts i have come up with that are so idiotic that even i decided to put out!

Some of these concepts were dropped so early on that they don't even have a name! That's how bad they can get.

But be aware if you're a regular visitor (if there are any), there are some concepts i haven't worked in for some time, but the concepts featured here are the ones that are officially DEAD to me.

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Episode one: "Unamed Gender Wars Concept"

-How it came to be-

Some time ago, a year or two maybe, i saw someone post an art jam, can't remember who it was, but the theme was along the lines "Draw one of your teachers as a super villain". While i didn't enter, i thought it was a funny theme and a couple of teachers of mine came to mind, funnily enough a realized something about these teachers: they were polar opposites.

One teacher was a literature teacher i had in high school which was highly feminist (Again, for regulars, you might have seen me parody her on my GN comics) and the other teacher was a more recent one, a physics teacher who was highly misogynous (Im proud to announce that i came with the nickname "Dr. Misogyny" for him and it stuck), so then i thought, what would happen is these two theoretical super villains met each others?

-What it was about-

I have always found the battle of the sexes to be something extremely childish. It starts with little boys saying things like "girls have cooties" and it ends in adults flinging the word "sexism" around. I've always found sexism to be quite idiotic, on any side. Feminism is equally as bad as the things it opposes to and machism makes me feel ashamed to be a man. So when i thought up this concept i figured it would be a nice way to show how pointless sexism is.

The story is as following: A big city suddenly finds itself terrorized under the hands of super villains, one is an evil overlord who despises women and the other is a extremist feminist mistress. These super villains actually ran into each others by accident and declared the war against each others, each side rallying people into their armies arguing that "they should help the cause of eradicating the mayor of the two evils", naturally each villain draft people of their own sex.

While all this incredible stupid war rages on, some of people start to realize that there is no "lesser of two evils" in this battle and start forming a rebellion. The rebellion is lead by a woman, but seeing how they were standing against the battle of the sexes, her main advisor was a man, who turned out to be a brilliant strategist.

The tale chronicles the adventures and struggles of the rebellion against this super villains, how they should stop them both without tipping the scale toward neither of them and keeping people from further joining them.

It would also deal with the fact that the rebellion had to sell their members the idea of equality (for example at one point, some women of the feminist side would infiltrate them and accuse the advisor of siding with the machist side, causing a quarrel among the members of the rebellion and having him resign his position for the good of the team).

-Why it was abandoned-

First off, it was a very dumb concept. Like i said, i think the battle of the sexes is childish and stupid, and so was this concept. I just couldn't take it seriously enough to actually try and write it, it just wouldn't really work out the way i had thought of it.

Then there is the fact that im still a terrible writer. My idea of "the war of the sexes is stupid" would most likely be lost on the translation (Not the literal TRANSLATION, as in the fact that i speak spanish, but that wouldn't help either), and any miss-step would make it seem like im either feminist or machist, which im neither. Im just not prepped enough for "social commentary about sexism in the world".

And i also thought that writing this wouldn't be fun at all. FUN is a must for me when thinking up my concepts, there is no use on doing it if im not having fun.

-Was there any hope on it?-

NO. Even in other discarded concepts of mine, there is at least one or two things that i find fun, which most of the time ends in me taking those fun elements and implementing them in other more fun concepts, but not this one. The only regret i have is that i might never design a villainous version of "Dr. Misogyny".

-Bottom Line-

No matter how or where you see it, the battle of the sexes is just a stupid, tired and childish joke.

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Coming soon, next episode: "STD Man!"