Editing Space Moose (section)

====Interpretation and reception====
Adam Thrasher argued that the "Take Back the Night" marches cause polarization in gender relations, since women discourage men from participating. Thrasher said, as paraphrased by Dan Lazin of ''[[The Gateway (newspaper)|The Gateway]]'', that "unthinking men may be incited to further hatred towards women."<ref name="Lazinfined"/> Thrasher argued that while the strips criticize "the ideas of some hard-core feminists", they are not against all women.<ref name="Mandelfierce"/> Thrasher added that "The reason I did it is because it's such a taboo to make fun of violence against women, against Take Back the Night."<ref name="Mandelfierce"/> Thrasher also stated that "When I drew up the cartoon, I wasn't thinking about [[Marc Le<!--No accent, as printed!-->pine]] [and the [[École Polytechnique massacre|Montreal massacre]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> which was a [[crimes against humanity|crime against humanity]], I think, more than a crime against women."<ref name="Ciccocioppo"/>

A Saturday October 25, 1997, editorial of ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' argued that the actions against Thrasher were censorship and that "the instinct to block the juvenile humour was more disturbing than the juvenalia itself."<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20020607130201/http://www.spacemoose.com/clobber/globe2.htm Muzzled Speech]." ([https://archive.today/20020607130201/http://www.spacemoose.com/clobber/globe2.htm Archive]) ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. Saturday October 25, 1997. Retrieved on January 30, 2012.</ref> The ''[[Alberta Report]]'' said in 1997 that "''Space Moose'' is a festival of caricatured scatology, violence, perversion, irreligion and even pedophilia. It has stimulated outrage before, but in five years the university had never suppressed the strip, despite lampoons of University institutions, Trekkies, the mentally retarded, and Christians. Only one group, it seems, has the clout to make the university turn censor."<ref name="archive1997"/>

In response to Thrasher's argument that the marches could polarize gender relations and that the comic had a different message than perceived, Gretchen Hess said that the intent of the strip was not easily discernible and that the effect of the strip should be considered in addition to the intent.<ref name="Lazinfined"/> Linda Trimble argued that "[t]he pretty direct message of the cartoon [was] 'It's open season on feminists. Kill all the women.{{'"}}<ref name="Lazinbeats"/> Joyce Green, a [[University of Regina]] political science professor who was another complainant, argued that "I don't see any difference between <nowiki>[</nowiki>the Montreal Massacre<nowiki>]</nowiki> and the cartoon."<ref name="Lazinbeats"/> Green added that the group had complained about the strips "not because we're paranoid but because we're terrified."<ref name="Lazinbeats"/> Shannon Sampert, a political science student who was another one of the complainants,<ref name="Mandelfierce"/> said that she was not surprised that the appeal went in favor of Thrasher. She believed that additional students would try to take the course of action that Thrasher took, and she believed that feminists would cause an outcry against the appeals.<ref name="Lazinbeats"/>

Brice Smith, a graduate student in the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] Department of Physics, said in ''[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]]'' in 2001 that "[t]he first strip, taken alone, would have been a brilliant use of sarcasm that very sharply points out the need for such events", but that the second strip "mocks the women’s demands to feel safe and to be free from rape, and then follows this up with the men brutally attacking the women, killing many quite graphically[...]"<ref name="SmithBrice">Smith, Brice. (guest column) ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120808210146/http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N26/col27smith.26c.html Archive]) "[http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N26/col27smith.26c.html Take Back the Night]." ''[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]]''. Volume 121, Issue 26. Tuesday May 15, 2001. Retrieved on January 30, 2012.</ref> Brice Smith argued that "One almost does not even know where to begin addressing this kind of hate-filled message. For me, the most horrifying aspect is its total disregard for the very real extent of violence by men against women."<ref name="SmithBrice"/>

In regards to the university code of conduct, Green and Trimble argued that it needed to be amended so that it would prohibit future strips like "Clobberin' Time".<ref name="Lazinbeats"/> Thrasher said that the code was unclear, even though it does not remove rights from the university community or members of the university. Thrasher argued that the code needed to be amended to make it clearer.<ref name="Lazinbeats"/> In regards to the inclusion of the URL in ''The Gateway'', Sampert argued that the editors "did a really scabby way of censoring but promoting at the same time."<ref name="Mandelfierce"/> Rose Yewchuk, the editor of ''The Gateway'', argued that the ''Space Moose'' comic that was published in that issue would not have made sense to the reader unless the reader saw the previous comic, therefore the newspaper published the address.<ref name="Mandelfierce"/>