I should add, about Ellie, while she's a good, strong, positive character, she's also essentially a damsel in distress, viewed through the eyes of, and revolving around, a male, paternal figure. And it says a lot that the simple depiction of a girl as pro-active, smart, and brave, stands out so starkly against the…

You know what a "strawman argument" is? It's where you make up an easily-defeated argument, falsely attribute it to someone else, and then knock it down (like a man made of straw). I didn't say men aren't brutalized in video games.

Dude, there are options to kill males too. So one is okay and one isn't?

God, I hope it's the end of something. What I've seen over the past couple of weeks is more than just disturbing and discouraging, it's emotionally exhausting. I just want to quit. So I can't begin to imagine how it must make female gamers feel, and that's depressing in its own right, but my respect has grown…

With all due respect, I think you're missing the point(s).

Codified by Dave Berry with The Waiter Rule: "If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person."

Without you quoting the part of what I said that you're replying to, I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying. But frankly, after seeing that you're the kind of guy who says things like "female supremacist," I don't think I'm missing anything.

To again make the point you completely missed, CARTOON DICKS AREN'T SEXISM. Cartoon BOOBS wouldn't be sexism either if not for their deeper societal implications and historical baggage that are uniquely exclusive to them and not at all shared by cartoon dicks. I mean damn, man. This isn't a complicated concept. And…

"Ancestors?" I'm not talking about ancient history. I'm talking about all of time leading right up to this very second, and into the foreseeable future. Women are, right now, profoundly disproportionately underrepresented in all the halls of power, from corporate America to Washington. Our (male) elected…

You completely reject the idea that men and women have been treated differently all throughout human history? That's not very promising.

You're willfully missing the point.

MMMuffins comment is based on the premise that men and women are starting from the same place in sexualizing the other gender, and we're not. The sexualization of men doesn't carry the thousands of years' worth of baggage, and the deep real-world social implications, that the sexualization of women does. It's similar…

You get that there's nothing inherently wrong with sexy cartoons, right? The reason feminists would be sensitive towards similarly sexualized depictions of women is because it would be emblematic of the way society in general treats women as two-dimensional sex objects, devaluing them (at best) and making them…

I'm sorry I gave you a canned response tailored to whiny MRAs, and I understand where you're coming from, but I still disagree with you. The only incentive men need to change is that it's the right thing to do, independent of what Jezebel or any other website or person does.

Yeah, yeah, there's a double standard. When it swings our way, we get more power, more freedom, and entirely better lives than women do. When it swings their way, they get to make 'sexist' jokes and draw cartoon dicks. I'm crying into my neckbeard about how unfair life is to me as a man.

I'm in no way defending the police officer in this specific instance. I was just addressing your much broader point regarding the escalating militarization/aggressiveness of police.

The militarization isn't happening in a vacuum, though. Cops are in an arms race with the civilians they police. When *the Bureau of Land Management* has to face down a literal army of anti-government lunatics armed with military-grade hardware to collect *grazing fees*, I can sympathize. By contrast cops in the UK…

Great comment. The closest I ever came to suicide, and it wasn't all that close — I still knew I had other options, if only to "disarm" myself — wasn't a cost/benefit analysis. It was the blind panic of a trapped animal. So these glib comments that are so thoughtlessly thrown around every time, blaming the victims of…

If you only knew how much domestic abuse ends with the man telling the woman "look what you made me do."

This is all I'm going to say on the matter. Trayvon Martin stood his ground when he felt threatened. That it's not only justifiable by law, but perceived as *noble* by some for a white man to do that with a gun, but criminal for a black boy to do it with his fists, is unjust.