Oh, Alberta. The Alabama of Canada.

So? No-one is perfect. I'm not, you're not. But "I like hitting men but not women" shouldn't be the foundation of an entire theory of social relations. Objectively, given whatever context, there's no reason to feel "better" about hitting a physically small, unathletic man who can't defend himself than about hitting a…

See, this is the problem I have with "hitting girls is bad" as a rule, instead of "hitting people is bad" or "taking advantage of someone who's physically smaller than you is bad," etc. The instant you simplify things to "hitting girls is bad," you get people like brupo, and soon you devolve into an argument about how…

That's exactly what people consider to be unrealistic. Sexism!

Are you seriously suggesting that movies with female characters who can hold their own in a fight are bad for women?

"I'm sorry if you were under the impression that just because people put us in one acronym that we all get along and have the same political interests. I'm sure you don't believe this, but just because I'm the L in LGBT does not mean my interests are the same as the BT folks."

That's awful. I kind of wish this poster was just banned. They clothe their transphobia in talk about racism and the problems of the fashion industry, but that's some incredibly hateful stuff right there.

That doesn't at all sound like what he's saying, from this transcript. Talking about "provocation" is different from explicitly talking about hitting first. He sounds like the kind of person who claims that women can "provoke" sexual assault by dressing the "wrong" way. If he meant "hitting is wrong regardless of the…

(Shrug) "It's common" is not, by itself, a very strong justification for doing things a certain way. If "it's the way things are usually done" were an adequate justification for anything, culture would never change, there'd be no social progress at all, and we'd be stuck in some sort of medieval stasis.

You must think the world is chock full of sad, shameful women.

I'm sorry, but I can't help reading the comment as: "Singapore is a great country. The government tries to brainwash people. There is tons of censorship. Criticizing the government is illegal. It's a great country."

I will always pronounce it "gee-eye-eff", just to be difficult. :P

Clearly, the light-speed barrier is really just a limit in our universe's clock speed...

... Hm. Well, this public discussion about silly animated .gifs (on a publicly viewable discussion forum, which is meant for public discussion of things) certainly escalated quickly...

Well if you already knew why they posted it, then why are you asking?

I took it as an illustration of the theme "a person is confused by a very simple thing, and proceeds to blame someone else for this."

No, no, I believe you. In fact, I don't think you ever posted at all. You most likely don't even exist, and this entire conversation is taking place in my fevered imagination. :P

Probably not to the point of endangering health or life in the way we see here, but yeah, I'd say it's more or less a truism that everyone has at least one serious mistake to regret, at one point of their life or another, and that for most people it was a mistake that in retrospect could have been avoided. If you've…

I don't understand such posts. Yes, it was a very stupid mistake. But this is a person who's going to spend the rest of her life blind. I mean, you know, that seems like punishment enough. I have a hard time not feeling at least a little sympathy. I certainly don't understand the need to make posts about how stupid or…

Oh my. Isn't this pretty much the same sort of thing that "get off my lawn!" types have been saying about *all* computer games for decades now? :P