It's really funny that there seems to be a tendency for people to ask Google why it thinks they find attractive characters so hot.

It says everything when it's not just Mercier, but the other women interviewed in this article who have dozens of stories of similar incidents, and some are forbidden to talk about it.

This is a gaming blog. This is a gaming reporter and someone who works in the gaming industry. Yes, this stuff happens towards women everywhere. Yes it's a serious problem anywhere it happens. That does not mean this website shouldn't talk about it. This article is focused on the game industry because... it's about…

Sorry, but you can't write it off. It is easy to say you should, but given the history of women being harassed by men due to their gender, talking about it is always infinitely better than ignoring. If you ignore it, it will happen again, if you talk about it maybe next time someone will think about the repercussion…

And yet no on ever does a Salacious Crumb imitation.

I'm on an exchange program at the moment and kind of interested to see how differently my (mostly male) friends will treat me when I go back, single for the first time since they've known me and (let's face it) quite a lot hotter. Fascinating indeed.

this kind of conversation just makes me think we need to stop trying to figure to who is being shittier to who. when straight women and gay men treat each other like trophies, it's just wrong. we're all being subjected to the same system that demeans us and is making us act so crappy to each other. why do we have to…

Hipster men are the worst. I used to go to shows crawling with hipsters, and once I was standing next to a guy who was the most pathetic, flannel-clad, mustachioed, coke-bottle glasses-wearing thing ever. I felt bad for him and started trying to chat him up ( I was a little drunk) and he straight up said, "stop…

Um, Brian Moylan wrote an article on Gawker, cross referenced on Jezebel, calling out the behavior of straight women towards gay men that you're describing a couple of years ago. So, why does this one calling out misogyny among gay men upset you so and why are you leaping to the conclusion that this article is saying…

Sure! Because women being oppressed is totally imaginary.

You are absolutely right that women often objectify gay men and treat them as accessories. I've seen this behavior among my friends, and looking back I see that even I engaged in it to a certain extent as a young teen. I think coming to terms with my own sexuality (I am a bisexual woman) helped me to see how wrong it…

Except, gay or straight, a man can walk out the front door of his house and have different privileges. It's disgusting that it might mean, in certain places, he has to be different. That's utterly wrong and has to change. But, even so, men have privileges women don't, often.

You should understand that oppressed minority groups can oppress eachother, becuase that is one of the functions are straight/white/male privilege is to codify people into groups and force these oppressed groups to "fight to the top". Trying to argue which group has it worse is pointless, but just like there have been…

I'm so glad that somebody was introspective enough to talk at length about misogyny in gay culture, even if this still only scratches the surface.

I am glad to hear that this is not something you have witnessed and happy to hear that your female friends have felt welcome in places you have frequented. I think, though, that the article has given ample evidence that there are aspects of gay culture that can tend toward misogyny. If you read the comments sections…

quite frankly, you or scarjo, i have no idea how neither of you didn't fucking punch the jokesters who grabbed you. because that would be my immediate reaction, and i'm not a very violet person generally.

Did he say why he thinks are vaginas nasty? I'm curious. If you think about vaginas objectively they're the coolest. They're self cleaning and self regulating units. They know what they need and make it happen. Also, it's like there are never ending fun facts you learn about the female reproductive system. You never…

I've got a lot of brilliant, witty gay friends, but there's one man in particular that I am no longer friends with. We were at an NYC theatre party, and all of a sudden he grabbed my breast in front of a large crowd of people and started laughing. I quickly got loud and asked what he thought he was doing. He kept…

I used to go to gay bars because those were the only bars my boyfriend wanted to go to. He refused to go elsewhere. I realized later that he's closeted. Either way, yes, I got a lot of stink eye at The Abbey, but really, I could have been getting that from women or straight men at Skybar or Beauty Bar (have you see…

Thank you for writing this.