Or the trolls can stop being assholes and let the kids play in peace.

One is certainly worse than the other, but that doesn't mean the latter is invalid. Misery poker benefits no one.

The idea that because X is worse than Y, we can't do anything about Y until X is fixed is...well, a false dilemma. It presumes we're only capable of worrying about or dealing with one thing at a time.

Again,…

Fiction comes under scrutiny all the time. Movies, books, TV shows and pretty much any medium ever used to portray fiction is analyzed and discussed.

Is this one of those "let the perfect be the enemy of the good" arguments?

Like, "because women are being horribly mistreated in the Middle East, we can't ALSO address issues of representation and equality in America?"

Do you feel the same way about, say, poverty? I mean, most poor people in, say, Somalia are probably…

Well, sure, but video games are (at least in theory) works of art, so it's fair to judge them by the same standard we would any other artistic product.

To fall back on an old example: it's not necessarily a problem if a game has a black character who's a violent, ignorant criminal.

If every black character in games were…

Absolutely, and I feel like getting into arguments about who has it worse is absolutely pointless and just hurts progress on both sides. So many women get (rightfully) upset when their concerns over body image/femininity/etc are belittled and sneered at by men that it BOGGLES MY MIND that they would turn around and do…

Claim: Katy Perry has the worst lyrics of all time. The very worst.

wat

It's only the first post if you don't count the actual first post about GTA Online that we ran 4 1/2 hours ago, which is pretty hard to miss on the front page right now. Shame on us for showing the more interesting intro to the game, one that shows how GTAO sort of adds something some gamers were loudly calling for.

For what it's worth, Kate Penney Losse gets precisely zero Google hits. Katherine Penney Losse gets seven: this article, Pipl-type databases, and her college graduation program. I have a hard time seeing how Eggers could have known it unless they are/were personally acquainted.

Every single time this comes up I ask about the names. I hear no similarities between the names. Unless she means that each character has a first, middle and last name.

I tend to agree with this view. A few years ago, William Gibson published a novel called Zero History in which a (very minor) character is a model who leaves the industry and finds work in another field. Apparently, when Gibson was researching the book, he found an essay I wrote years ago here at Jezebel, because he…

Likewise, society makes assumptions about women that make us guilty by default: our work is supposedly minor, less valuable, and limited to the personal, where the work of a white man is presumed to be “universal”, “essential”, and relevant to all.

Hmmm...I am not sure I am getting the outrage.

Hahaha I was just trying to figure out that, too! "Kate kinda rhymes with Mae...no, wait. Oh, I know. Losse sounds like Holland. Wait, no."

I really want to be sympathetic, but the examples seem more like Dave Eggers fictionalizing things that happened in real life, which Losse wrote about first. I'm sure that if you read any number of accounts of employees working at Facebook or other tech startups there would mentions of getting passwords, Friday…

Alright, so, basically nearly everything you said is wrong.

Ignoring social constructs for a moment, no, being Trans is not about being what your idea of some stereotype is ala drag queens or whatever. Generally, it is about being the other while having to put up with an opposing biological reality. Many Trans people…

Not knowing which gendered pronoun to use is one thing; but there is no context in which calling a fellow human being "it" is okay. None.

No, it wouldn't. Transgendered people are humiliated and ridiculed every day, often to the point of assault and suicide, and those stories usually don't end up on CNN. They're a bit more likely to end up on MSNBC, but no major news station could cover all of these incidents, nor do they exactly want to. They'd be…

This is about something immensely more important than Microsoft and the Xbox One. Let's not be petty.

And this happened at Eurogamer Expo, which has been going on for the past few days. That's not the same thing as Gamescom.