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We French people know how to wank too, you know
Superfrenchie.com is a blog written in English devoted to Franco-American relations. It's run by a French expat in the US, and French people and Americans alike hang out there.
One of the main pet-peeves (and provider of wank) over there is French-bashing: do Americans hate the French or do the French hate the Americans more? Is Bill O'Reilly more offensive than les Guignols de l'Info? Should Cafépress get sued? You name it, they wank about it...They even participated in a campaign to give Jay Leno some history books about France because they were fed up with his lame jokes about the French.
But now that Captain America is dead, they are getting bolder, so they've moved on to speaking out against the crimes commited by American comic book writers. And not just any crime: crimes against history, against geography (I kid you not) and against language.
The post itself is pretty tl;dr. Most people in the comments tell the OP that he should chill out. People ramble about Lady Oscar, and get confused over whether or not stereotypes are the same thing as bashing. According to the OP, they, like totally are!!!!1!!

I’ll answer: I don’t think that relying on clichés, or poor or non-existant research, is french-bashing. I do think that it shows some kind of laziness on the part of american writers and artists. I do understand the need for them to work quickly in order to respect the monthly deadline (although, when you see the erratic schedule of, say, the latest Wonder Woman series, it seems that it’s not really the norm anymore), but still, there are some things that don’t take that much time, like going to a local high school and ask a french teacher to translate a bit of dialogue, for example. It seems to me that, rather than doing their own research, many artists have simply relied on what other artists had drawn before, without realizing that those artists had themselves relied on what others had drawn, and so on since the 1940s. Which is why comic book France looks like something from the fifties, or even before, when french politicians wore waxed mustaches, people wore berets, and cops wore kepis. A France that certainly isn’t the one I’ve lived in for 47 years now. Now, my next guest post will be more serious. Watch this space on march 16th. The date itself should give you an idea of what I will be talking about.

Posted in fandom_wank, because the OP is clearly wanking, and if you can wank about the position of the Eiffel Tower in the background of a comic book, you're definitely a fan.