I can see how her career might make her more sensitive to the ways women are oppressed, but I don’t think that’s necessarily why she reacted the way she did. I’d be mad, too, if someone contacted me at work and said “I know it’s not okay to say this but I’m going to say it anyway” and I just work in food service. You…

If he didn’t know it was wrong, he wouldn’t have led with “I know this is probably horrendously politically incorrect.”

Women didn’t “come in” and demand change. We’ve been gaming as long as there have been games.

That’s exactly what you’re missing. Gender shouldn’t matter. But obviously it does to these men that harass women so severely that they don’t feel comfortable disclosing their gender at all. And yet you seem to have a problem with women explaining that this is not okay.

I’m not going to sit here and debate feminist theory with you. My point is that women are saying that this is a problem and you refuse to listen, even though they’re the ones that are living it. That’s been my point all along and, if you read carefully, you’ll notice that I also said I doubted that you’d be able to…

Here’s the problem. On a large scale, what you seem to be implying is that the reaction to material audiences are finding in bad taste is somehow worse than the material in the first place. It’s not. Remember when I said that these things exist as part of a culture from which no one is exempt? That culture actively…

Rape is a common thing in video games. Generally as a backstory for female characters that need motivation to be strong. Jack’s story is not unique. She was gang raped (not on-screen - she talks about it with the Commander after) and this spurred her to become her badass self, apparently. Male characters rarely need…

But I think you just inadvertently proved a point: You can like something AND still acknowledge that it has problems. That’s what you’re seeing with gamers who are women (myself included). I can recognize that, for example, Jack from Mass Effect has a very standard and almost exploitative backstory (she’s tough…

Those passages come before the one I provided, which goes further back into the history of the tradition. Which you would know if you had read your own source.

Maybe you should read your own sources.

Because Christmas trees aren’t religious. They’re literally Pagan in origin. You think there were many conifers in Bethlehem? Also, unless you’re completely out of touch with the modern understanding of a Christmas tree, you’d be able to tell that it’s lost most of its connection with Christmas and the connection…

I’ve just spent the last five minutes giggling alone in my room at the image of a chocolate-covered finger rolling down a conveyor belt. Thank you.

I’ve always thought there was a great untapped trolling market in straight white boys. I mean, if the goal is to get a reaction out of someone by questioning their worldview, who better than guys who are known for explosive anger? Even the suggestion that they sometimes have feelings other than rage and stiff-jawed…

Also, “bone broth” is just stock. Stock is made with some veggies (usually onion, carrot, and celery) chopped up really small and put in a cloth bag, bones, and water. They’re all simmered together for several hours, then you take the cloth bag and bones out. Seems dumb that they decided it needed a new name, but…

But the most symbolic and historic act has already been misrepresented. The throwing of the first brick that started the whole riot is right there in the trailer. And it’s the white gay fictional character who throws it. It’s also extremely obvious that the main characters do not include any of the trans women of…

Maybe you’ve got me confused with the original commenter that you replied to, but I never denied his identity.

So? You said yourself that the writer, director, and producer are all gay men. Shouldn’t they portray this accurately, to the best of their ability? I get that they’re not going to please everyone, but to take such a symbolic act (the throwing of the first brick) away from Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman who…

My guess is that they’re making Ray an amalgam for all the trans women of color. Just so they can say they didn’t leave them out.

Yes. It’s entirely possible for the cis, white gay men who produced, directed, and wrote this move to have bias towards trans people of color, specifically trans women of color. It’s entirely possible that they wanted to frame this event in a way that makes a cis white gay man seem like the hero, not only because it…

I didn’t say he wasn’t. The point of it is that the real Ray Castro wasn’t even trans. It looks like they’ve fictionalized him and made him an amalgam for all the trans women of color that were so integral to the riots. It’s fine and dandy that he’s Puerto Rican. I’m not disputing that that makes him more diverse than…