Yeah the Oriental outrage is a bit galling to me as well, referring to a flavor palate or design motif as “Asian” is denigrating to any Asian ethnicity who’s culture isn’t represented in that Palate. “Oriental Licorice Flavored” certainly doesn’t taste like Indian Licorice. It tastes like the licorice of the countries…

True Fact, white skin is impervious to bullets..

Yes, so when you look at slavery as a valid occupation our current immigrants are doing pretty great...

How much use were they?

This hardly seems like a debate. If you’re playing in a team game it doesn’t matter what your strategy is or who you play or even if you win, ultimately if your team is being hindered more than helped by your involvement you should have every right to expect a consequence.

I hate that these words are coming out of my mouth but if there is a stigma against communism that is preventing a legitimate discussion about socialism in this country then can someone please tell people that Nazi’s are bad?

No seriously. This article is absolute bull. Sexism is demonstrably a bigger problem in our country than racism with much more clearly institutionalized discrimination. The notion that oppression is why you cannot identify as a different race is more of an argument in favor of why it’s acceptable. If you honestly…

I appreciate birth can be as traumatic as any surgery but it’s not something being forced on you (In this political climate). The procedures, while invasive and often carried out in urgency that doesn’t allow a pain-doped pregnant woman to provide informed consent, they aren’t optional. They aren’t being done to the…

This is as good as it gets..

I recall some really offensive blacksploitation movies about white zombies or somesuch but I don’t think anyone has addressed race in the same way that Stepford wives has addressed gender: in the sense that we have these societal rules and expectations that are very creepy and messed up when you look at them…

13 Years

Two articles in less than 24 hours for a fairly unremarkable Kickstarter. When I’m getting ready to kick my game, who do I contact at Kotaku to buy some news?

Kid’s in that neighborhood either hang out with the kids who spraypainted that slur or they are the children of adults who did. Either way they’re absolutely exposed to that word. If you were honestly concerned about what children were exposed to you’d be very concerned that those children were exposed to the…

“We’re getting a lot of grief from minorities and liberals because of our policy of repeatedly inducting serious Alt-right figureheads into government positions, what can we do?”

Lately when I see articles about the latest weird cafe in Japan where you only eat Mayonnaise or have tea with ferrets or where there’s a Hello Kitty costume dress code, concepts that seem to have extremely limited appeal or potential legal concerns, I have to wonder if the Japanese understand this is less a business…

I’ll grant you Cianadian’s argument is mostly built upon anecdote, but it is the anecdotes of a gender spread across the cultures of the world throughout time. The argument that it is our society that makes sex this way doesn’t hold up. Also the challengers to these assumptions are advancing the argument that they can…

Take this from someone who’s obsessed with sexuality and sexual expression. It’s not all that. We talk about sex a lot more than we do it and while it has a lot of benefits for us holistically it’s not much better for the soul than binge-watching a show you love. If you’re not that into it, and you have healthy…

I don’t want to come across as a hipster but I was “Woke” when I was in grade school and I’m really done with the disingenuous look-at-me BS of Generation Wake Up. If I act like a decent human being half of the Country calls me a snowflake and the rest of the country tells me I’m privileged. If this is having your…

Yeah you mock him because he’s afraid to have his picture taken with Donald Trump but in this day and age that picture could follow him the rest of his career. What if the camera went off when Trump grabbed his hand and did that creepy tugging thing he does.. people would think he was one of the former president’s…

Or like so many generations ago that most of the folks alive at that time don’t exist now.