She's proceeding from that conclusion because we've already ascertained that video games are sexist. Now she's showing all the different kinds of sexism to help educate others and foster discussion.

What is being said is often game developers make violence towards females more violent and sexual than towards males, as a way to cause emotion.

The thing with violence against men is that mostly, men are the ones with agency in games. Nobody is saying violence against any other person, male or female, is not bad. What they are saying is that women characters lack agency and are just decorations that get fridged.

You know how if you watch an episode of Star Trek or whatever and there's a redshirt in a dangerous situation? They die and you aren't surprised at all and maybe even roll your eyes and say "ugh saw that coming a mile away". It would be nice for women to not be redshirts, so that countless stories don't start with…

Someone who sees a problem in something brings up examples that indicate that problem? Seems like.. anyone who has ever had an opinion on anything ever. She's brought up games that do things right - but so many people fixate on the one or two games that have women with agency in them to the exclusion of everything…

Seem? Certain people? I got news for you. Saying, "maybe women should form their own studio and make their pink games for girls" doesn't seem sexist to certain people. It is sexist as an objective fact. You imply that women should be segregated into their own studio because they and what they want are not "main…

However, I'm reluctant to say that violence against any single group of people should be removed from creative work since that has the potential to shut down a vein of narrative.

It's a good thing that's not what she said, right?

No one is advocating removing all violence directed towards women from all games. That's pretty much a strawman position that people who don't want anything to change use to rail against.

The people getting mad and/or surprised at Joss Whedon aligning himself with feminism have been endlessly amusing to me.

They put a left rear tire on the right rear of the car for loading purposes.. this is nothing new in sprint car racing. They'll likely cooperate fully, they won't destroy the go pro either. Looks to me in the video like Stewart was trying to get away from the kid, the #45 car almost hit him too. When you blip the…

Were you being pedantic in order to police what SaitoHawkeye said? Why, yes, I think that is what you're doing. How tiresome does it get?

Some people just have shitty opinions that they should keep to themselves.

Not exactly. I feel like you are still conflating passing with acceptance and those are two very different things. People who pass still get rejected regularly when 'exposed'. That's because people's views of gender are still based on biological essentialism. Until people's idea of gender changes, passing only helps…

It is completely yucky. I don't have much experience with trans people, but I assume that trans people who don't "pass" as well as others cause the same uncomfortable feelings that morons feel when a gay or lesbian person looks more like their opposite sex. My sister is gay, and she tends to dress more masculine and…

Conditional acceptance based on how good you look is not true acceptance. Attractive people get away with a lot more, trans or not. Making trans people look better will promote better outcomes, yes, but that only help so much if people view gender non-conformance negatively. There are a lot of people out there who are…

As a trans woman who will never pass 'acceptance depending on stealth' is not an option. By far the majority of trans women do not pass. The Laverne's of the world are rare. So we cannot ever fight for 'hey if you pass it's all good' we need to fight for 'how about not physically attacking me or verbally abusing me,…

A reasonable distinction...still, there's something a bit yucky about acceptance being dependent in any way on passing. Not that passing is a bad thing, I don't doubt that it would be the preference of many trans people (though surely not all), even without society pressuring them to do so.

Society accepts transwomen and men who "pass" a lot more than other visible LBGT people.

I sometimes feel as if transwomen will be the last group of people in our society to get acceptance. We aren't even at a state where most people are aware of the issues they face, and certainly there isn't societal tolerance.

Kat,