This is pretty much where I live. I spend about 12 or more hours a day here, either playing games or writing about games. Typically I sit in that bean bag chair, sometimes the black chair or my giant LoveSac. In this picture you can see: my headset, a PS3 controller, my "controller graveyard", assorted splayed…
@MizJenkins: You say that as though you assume I've never been in the situation. I have...I am (with one of my sisters). Additionally, I AM the problem sick child—I have a serious illness and my parents neglected me as a child and did not seek out the medical attention I needed. I was sick for a decade before I was…
@Federov: I've been in it, more than once. For people I didn't even give birth to.
@carrot-toss: There is a huge difference between adults coddled into staying children, and a serious illness. Anorexia isn't something you just snap out of once your parents stop babying you.
Either way, Shimizu, I heard they're not too impressed with people who became famous by talking about the sex they had with famous people, so I'm sure you'll want to skip the field trip nonetheless.
Am I totally bonkers for thinking that if your sanity is contingent upon whether or not you're burdened with helping your daughter recovering from a serious illness, perhaps you shouldn't have had children?
@missteenwordpower: Agreed. As a woman that does have triggers, there are days I have been so relieved for a trigger warning, so I can skip the post and move on with my day without having a PTSD flashback. It's one thing when it's a news story; the details are scarce and the cold style of writing make it less…
And, even ruder, she ignores the fact that we all have inner "trigger warnings" that we use all the time. You wouldn't just thrust a story and pictures about genital mutilation in the face of a stranger without performing some kind of social courtesy first. We curb those behaviors because of the social repercussions,…
I think it lessens the rage a bit to understand this woman in context. She's been on "Politically Incorrect" and "loves" and worships Bill Maher (incredibly misogynistic) and has a former career at what she describes as a "reporter" (her quotations, not mine) on Playboy TV.
I'm really looking forward to playing in (New) Vegas. And the Project V13 concept art showed Seattle Center covered in snow...if the Fallout MMO ended up in my hometown I could seriously die a happy woman.
@The PIE Piper: Oh, in that sense I agree—he should have had the awareness to pick up on her uneasiness and backed off.
@yvanehtnioj: I just did acknowledge it, even apologized. But to act like I directly said I speak for all white people is hardly fair. Yes, I should have used prefaced my statement with a "some of".
@yvanehtnioj: Actually no, I unwisely spoke in a way that made it sound as though I feel all white people share my frustration without thinking of those who did not feel that way, nowhere did I say "I'm the representation of white people on this site, and all of us feel exactly this way." I apologize to those who…
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Not interested, yet you started something. OK.
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Obviously, any comment from a white person at all that doesn't say "Yeah, we suck" just isn't acceptable.
@Snaggletooth: No, I'm not. I'm talking about feeling too intimidated to start the dialogue because of contradicting demands and open hostility to genuine attempts to do the right thing. Again, I'm being told by some to make an attempt, and by others to just shut up and let the people of color do the talking.
@DailyLattes: You don't get it, at all. I never said they were bringing me down, but I did say the response makes it hard to start communication. Like your comment, for example!
@lodown: And you're assuming that I've made some huge generalization because of one experience I had. This is one experience in a cloud of many, yet I do not expect the behavior of every group of black men I see. I merely provided an example.
@Evie Havok: Given that this post talks about white women ignoring racial issues, I don't see how what I said is irrelevant. See, this is what I'm talking about. Some people say "start the dialogue, participate" and others say "Why are you, white woman, talking about race issues".
@yvanehtnioj: Well if I don't speak for all white people, then neither do you. Several people on this thread have said they identify with the frustration I voiced, and did so also in private.
