There are not enough overhead bin spaces on a plane for everyone to put their carry-on items there, let alone carry on bag and coat. Even though it's technically within the rules of the flight and the expectation of your ticket purchase that you will have overhead bin space.

I think the point is that while there is violence against both sexes, women are far more likely to be shown in a submissive situation and used as a narrative device ie. they are not running toward you guns blazing, or developing the story - just there to make you feel like that dude needs to get got for harming a lady

Uhh - they are? There are tons of women developers out there, who make games. And they also get shit on all the time. It's almost like the common theme here is women doing things in games.

A lot of people have problems with violence against men in video games. Not specifically, because violence specifically targeted at women is a very different thing than violence against men, but people do have a problem with violence in video games. It's talked about all the time. They just don't specifically call…

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…

Thank you. It's really not that difficult to just act like a human being and have a basic awareness of your surroundings.

I think the discussion about casual cruelty against women is a symptom of a greater issue - taking the easy route in creative work.

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.

You're right, you are free to choose to recline. You're also free to your opinion about it. But common courtesy says that if you're recline into someone else's space that they are currently occupying (as is the case with a very tall man like Thabeet), maybe you should consider being polite instead of being a child.

The guy's in a bulkhead, which means he already has more legroom than 95% of the people in coach. On top of that he's laying his seat all the way back into the lap of a person in the top 1% of leg length of all humans on the planet, and putting his feet on the walls for maximum dickishness. Just because something is…

wait, are you saying that because they'd hooked up previously and had plans to hook up that there's no way he could have raped her? That's... incorrect. I mean, who knows what happened, but those texts don't "prove" anything.

You're going to find that a whole lot of commenters—and writers—have personal experiences with sexual assault. I'm one of them. So, while I'm sympathetic, I'm also not giving you a pass on your comments, because they're problematic, dangerous, and wrong.

I'm going to assume that you're actually someone who is misinformed, as opposed to a pure troll. What you're presenting is a straw man. No one is saying that people who have been drinking can't consent.

You all are using twisted logic. Sure, there are a lot of other artists who are better singers live than Swift is, that's not the debate. The question is whether she is bad, which she's not. Flat in some areas, but overall she hits her notes fine here.

I'll sit with you in the "old people who neither hate Beyoncé nor find her worth this much reverence" corner. She's very good at what she does, but it's not a thing that interests me.

I don't hate Beyonce — she's really good at what she does — but I do think it's a bad idea to be too reverent about anyone. And I think the VMAs have gone from being an antidote to an awards show that takes itself too seriously, to becoming that awards show that takes itself too seriously.

Why even click in the first place?

" Beyonce is likely the finest living performer we have right now and she proved that again tonight."