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In article <2p4dr3$dh3@news.acns.nwu.edu>, rgoldsbo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert
Goldsborough) says:
>As for the Bent Offerings, pardon my ignorance, but why would anyone
>be offended by the strip? I haven't read it, but if anyone knows,
>pass it along (please don't flame me; I just don't understand what
>would be offensive about said strip).

I didn't find it offensive either.  I read "Bent Offerings" all the time and
I know that the author uses famous people and word play in his strip.
However, you can say "Excuse me" these days and someone will find something
wrong with either the way you said it or the expression on your face.

The objection was the depiction of Nefertiti, an Egyptian queen, as a dog.
Some people claim that Nefertiti was a black African woman.  Thus, some people
with this point of view thought that depicting her as the dog Toto, from "The
Wizard of Oz" fame, was racially insensitive and an insult.

Terry
U16028@uicvm.uic.edu