That applies just as much to my son as it does to my daughter. I won't teach either of them to be victims. And it's precisely because I can't protect either of them 24/7 that they have to have the strength of will to stand up for themselves in any situation.

Those are the exact words that racists use when they try to defend treating black people differently. "Just playing the odds."

We've all heard it now. It's been taken as gospel. It's actually not true, though, which I think is an important detail.

That was well put. But I disagree with the idea that women are automatically outstripped by men, physically or in any other way. And no man (or woman) is tougher than everybody.

Yes, that's exactly what a man OR A WOMAN should do. Well, maybe be more friendly about it than that, but if the friendly approach doesn't work, you make it clear that you're gonna knock him on his butt if he doesn't cool it, and if he doesn't cool it, you knock him on his butt. You run, you fight, you try to talk…

That happens to lots of people, male and female, at some point in their lives. The difference seems to be that men are taught to man up and assert themselves, and women are taught to be helpless and afraid. I think that the way men are taught to behave in that circumstance is the proper way regardless of gender. Or…

I agree. Bruce Lee was pretty tiny. I don't expect all tiny people to be Bruce Lee. But he proves that weighing less than two hundred pounds doesn't mean you're at a disadvantage.

No. It's not different. It's exactly the same.

Lots of people have been sexually harassed. They don't all respond with 'palpable fear.' This is the hard part for some people to understand. Even if a situation is conceivably threatening, many people do not respond by feeling threatened.

He didn't support the drunk guy's behavior.

That's so sexist. There's no reason to assume just because she's a woman that she can't hold her own against a guy. Especially a drunk guy.

Superheroes make people feel safe.

Just out of curiosity — I don't really play these sorts of games — but how do women react when another woman joins the game? Are they all calm and cool about it?

What is everyone hoping for, here? A situation where you never have to face disapproval, where everyone is either required to like everything about them or at least keep their opinions to themselves.

The economic axis of the world will cease its east-west ambulations and take a sharp southward turn when extraterrestrial traders arrive on Earth, setting up shop according to millennia-old contracts with Africa and South America, who suddenly find themselves dominating the globe with each other as their only rivals…

THAT was what people were freaking out over? A music video with mostly-nude women? This is a thing to be upset over?

My favorite games are dynamic, non-linear RPGs. I loved the Ultima series (even when it sucked) and in more recent years (decades) I've been into Fallout, Mass Effect and Dragon Age (I think I'm a BioWare fan). The most addictive game ever, though, is any iteration of Civilization (or the rip-offs and spin-offs —…

Ha! Case in point. I'm there on the mind control erotica. You are not alone.

This sounds incredibly hateful toward men.

That was great! Surprisingly good acting on the part of all the main characters. Some of the camera angles could have better, although composition was good overall and the way the camera was used to give expression to the ranger gas-mask was cool. The music was good.