And also that Bethesda softworks (a publishing company) is a different corporate entity than Bethesda game studio. Sure the former owns the latter, but they are different companies.

The problem it had when it started was the episodes were a little anemic. It felt like not enough story happened in those 20 minutes. Compare that to Community where the pacing is so perfect it felt like they crammed 50 minutes into those 20.

This is largely gone now, granted it's not so dense as Community was, but I…

#notallmillenials! I can use a sewing machine, sew a mean shank on a button, starch a collar so it stands up on it own and even do some basic tailoring if it doesn't involve french seams.

My favourite is "There's no reason to think this person was a GG-er!" you know, besides GG's history of threats made against her.

It's not someones notoriety that necessarily draws threats or violence. People with less notoriety have gotten worse. And sometimes people act out on them for even less. Look at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal (which was referenced in the threats).

you know it's in the title right?

I'm gonna say this REAL SLOW. If you accuse her of performing pseudo science YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY SEE WHAT YOURE CALLING PSEUDOSCIENCE! Otherwise your accusations are baseless finger pointing.

Have you read her abstract? The methodology section in her proposal? There is no way you can accuse her of bad methodology when you have not read her proposal.

By the way "independent researcher" means anyone doing research not on a corporate grant. The vast majority of tenured researchers at research universities are…

because your mom was trying to be sneaky, she is excused for filming in portrait mode. The original video though, that woman filming is a monster!

the women have sense enough to get a real job! But yeah, it does thin out at the doctorate level, though still much better than it once was. I would guess my universities math dept is 60/40 at the grad student level. I was talking to a colleague about this, and it's pretty complicated (though, "patriarchy" sums it up…

While study moduli spaces *is* obscure, pure mathematics most certainly is not. While not as sexy as astrophysics, it has about as many people working in it and much better job prospects.

(also, point of interest, the fields medal isn't really the the nobel prize of mathematics. It's only called that because it's the…

"My beard grows down to my toes, I never wear no clothes, I wraps my hair around my bare, and down the road I goes"

-Shel Silverstein

Also cancer, everyone has hundreds of tumours.

Someone's gender may inform their character, but it is not their character. Whatever character trait a character may draw from their gender could occur in someone of another gender. But I get what you mean, there are instances where characters MUST be one gender or another, usually if the story is historical or at…

What I said "being sexist" was, was not in regards to your stories but rather this part of my post:

"...if it's your position that the disparity in representation isn't a problem (or doesnt exist in the first place) and that the industry should make no efforts to change, then absolutely, you're being sexist."

And like I…

Fast and loose is I think what you mean. Playing hard with the rules would be working to my benefit wouldn't it? :)

Not all instances of sexism need to be on the level of genital mutilation for them to be issues in need of addressing. To write off instances of less serious sexism as "first world sexism" is a problem…

You're under the, mistaken, impression that I'm telling you what to do. What I'm doing is contributing to a discussion about the representation of women in comics and movies. Though I did use the work you mentioned as a talking point and then responding to hypotheticals, I wasn't trying to tell you what to do.

However,…

It's not a matter of "being cool with." I'll still enjoy a movie or book or comic that has dodgy representation. It's about identifying sexism and working to improve. So if you say "we'll see" and then never write it, then you're contributing to sexist representation. Sure, the stories may be good, but you're still…

This is such a colossal mess. First, yes, keeping out popular female characters would ALSO be sexist, but lack of representation is sexist too. Next, that's not how occam's razor works. Continuing on, this is NOT crying wolf, not even close.

Now the bigger points, simply telling women (or any group, marginalized or…

I with you there, I think. The fight for female representation has become about fighting for the smallest level of representation and treating it liking a victory. The superhero genre is well past three strikes, and giving the mountain of bad writing inherent in it, I think we should just shelve the whole genre for 10…