Maybe it was a big deal for MLS, just nobody noticed because nobody gives a fuck.

Please cross post on Gawker so we can hear the EPL fan hipsters who would never root for a mainstream American sport suddenly become NFL personnel experts.

City so racist Bill Russell chose to play in Boston instead

Why exactly is it "unfortunate?" One paragraph later, you said the position was too deep and an undrafted free agent outplayed him. Are you suggesting that they were supposed to keep him anyway?

I never said that games cause men to be misogynists. Our games and movies reflect our culture. Our culture pays women less on the dollar, provides them with fewer opportunities. We also have a racism problem, and that is evidenced by how few leading black men there are in games too. I mean, I'm sure you've seen that…

Let me cut through all of your words and get to your intention: Gaslighting.

I see what you're saying, and while I disagree with the need to do it in this case I understand why it might make for something better. In cases like this (feminism in online spaces) - the goalposts as to what makes a valid argument get shifted backwards every time someone gets close to it. I'm not saying that's what…

That is certainly true of some situations. But it's also true that a lot of the violence on background characters tends to be overtly sexualized (or they are made more helpless) when the victim is a woman. And it's not just one off incidents that are a problem - it's the steady flow of it from so many different games.

Disagreed. Sexism is everywhere in every culture. Culture produces fiction. Fiction can reinforce existing standards or produce others by desensitizing audiences to certain things, like violence or rape. Seeing things play out in fictional arenas can help normalize those behaviors or mindsets. Research on this is…

So, it's ok treating women as wallpaper and consistently showing them as hapless victims of terrible violence because no real person is hurt? I would disagree. Being casually sexist is still something to avoid.

You've been one of the most sane commentators on this article so far - more so then I have in some cases for sure. If all criticism these videos got were like this (or even most, or hell even some) then it'd speak volumes for going against the people who flip their shit at the merest mention of sexism in their games.

Fiction can and does have an impact on real life. To claim otherwise is simply untrue.

It's usually people who don't see an issue with anything here that cry realism. And the only people who ever say that things need to be "perfectly egalitarian" are people who like to argue against arguments that don't exist. It's the same argument that makes out what we're saying to mean that we want to ban violence…

Are you somehow under the impression that these games are the only games she could find with examples of this type of writing? This is a sample of them, taken from different publishers and different years so people can't just claim that it was just one year, or one publisher.

Okay, first off, this is a really thoughtful response and I thank you for it.

And yet, it wasn't Slave Han. It was Slave Leia, and Han Encased in Carbonite. Not Han Encased in Carbonite Wearing Nothing But Speedos. Not Slave Han Chained Up With a Codpiece. (Imagine that Kenner toy.) Just the carbonite.

Not everything has to be an overt "LOOK AT THE OBJECTIFIED WOMAN! ISN'T IT AWESOME" type message. There is subtext, and context.

You seem to be misunderstanding how the sheer volume of things effects the perception of people. You're right, most people aren't actively going "HAH! This stripped is being treated like a sex object. I love when women are basically lamps with tits" - but it does normalize women being nothing more then background…

Booooooo.

You're totally right; the way in which he has turned down most of his sponsorship opportunities, canceled the reality documentary after negative feedback, performed well in the preseason, and given one interview since being drafted by the Rams (in which he talked about how performing well in the preseason gave him…