I think there’s a word for those people. I’m pretty sure it starts with a T.

I appreciate and respect the sentiment, the bravery, and the integrity in taking a stand even in the face of violent opposition.

Defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.

Well aren’t you lucky.

racist when seeing article about this: “They have 1st amendment rights, blah, blah. They have freedom of expression...”

Suppression of the free press...

Yeah, nobody was asking him to throw a fit on the bus. All he had to do was try not to serve up a woman for unwanted touch immediately after hearing a man brag about his readiness to assault her. That’s apparently an offensively high bar now.

Hey, I have a right to be upset if a hamburger is made of ham. Burgers are made of beef, dammit!

Anime reviews are always a good mainstay, since different types of fans will seek out different tones in reviews, but other content a site can offer:

No, they didn’t. Blizzard changed the pose themselves, and the creators even said as much.

...that seems like legitimate criticism though. I mean, it’s an ice cream store, not a chocolate store. It would be in the stores own best interest to provide as many flavors as possible. Otherwise the store is going to find itself catering to an increasingly shrinking clientele of hardcore chocoholics, while all the…

Anime is an art form

And when US had that too much reality t.v. , too little quality scripted shows, writers took note. And we got “The Sopranos,” and “The Wire,” out of it. And that paved the way for higher production values on other shows. We wouldn’t have Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc without that discussion.

Anime is often manufactured with the hopes that it will also appeal to an international audience. They go through a lot of effort to sell their products to those audiences. Things like translation and getting into financial contracts with global distribution platforms isn’t something that happens accidentally, it…

Man I went into reading this thinking I knew exactly how it was going to go and I was wrong. The questions were good questions that got good answers. I don’t 100% support Cooks agenda but I understand and respect it. She doesn’t mind that fan service exists and doesn’t want it banned or to shun people who like it, she…

The end goal is to simply get people and the creators thinking about the subject in a meaningful way. This isn’t an easy task and it clearly hasn’t happened when you have people reacting in ways like she described.

Glad that you’re open minded about the site, and I agree Cecilia asked some great questions!

I really wanted to like Knights of Sidonia, a good hard-sci fi approach to long term space travel and giant robots.

Really appreciate it!

That’s not the same thing, though. Just because you toss a buncha naked dudes in with naked girls doesn’t make it any better. There’s also a big gap in what men and women find attractive-- many would find a moderately-sized dude in a nice suit far more attractive than a huge, lumbering, naked muscle.