I suppose even if you're not special, you're still unique...yeah I don't buy it either.

Transgressing someone's boundaries is still power. Physical coercion is not the only kind there is.For example, someone who has "consensual" sex with someone much younger than them, or who they have authority over, is still using power against them, even if no violence is involved and everyone swears blind that they…

It's ambiguous, so who knows. Also now I re-read it, having a parent with severe mental health issues isn't exactly on par with statuatory rape, so I'm not sure what that was doing in the list.

Was that bit real? I thought it might have been a list of imagined deal-breakers that could be ignored because one night stands don't matter. If they were all real, and all applied to that one guy... yikes. My "Nice Guy" tendencies are seriously aggravated by articles like this.

Noooooooooo....

Brrr, I wouldn't turn my back on that thing even if it is a costume.

For a more positive example of video game culture (kinda) see this great post by Rock Paper Shotgun in response to some of the comments when a female writer posted her picture: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/27/rock-paper-shotgun-apologies-for-using-female-writers/

When I was 17 I decided to stop talking about women the way this article talks about Mr Hamm after I imagined women discussing penises the way guys discuss breasts/asses/whatever. Comparing notes, discussing sizes of guys they passed in the street, scrutinising photos for a peek, making fun of guys who didn't measure…

There's quite a bit of evidence that legalised prostitution increases people trafficking and sex slavery, for one thing.

Great post, but stop wasting your time, some people just love their revenge porn.

Relevant: http://io9.com/5943500/behold-the-ultimate-pregnant-cosplay-krangs-body

Supposedly the research shows that most attackers are looking for an easy target. If you go ballistic and scream as loud as you can and fight back in any way then chances are they will run off. Apparently the majority of the time fighting back doesn't lead to greater reprisal for doing so either, so it's probably…

I'm not sure your analogy works here. Someone who has rape fantasies is suspect if they have a history of violence. Someone who is, in your interpretation, into the power fantasy of "owning" another person is suspect if they...pay a lot of money? What about people into BDSM who pay thousands for bondage…

I have literally never heard a British politician refer to her or her works. Really, it's not snobbery.

hehe

I actually agree, but I do think that a bit more focus could have been put on the possibility. As it is, it just seems like a sideshow to laughing at Ditto making a spectacle of herself.

Or assaulting someone. Don't really know why that was glossed over, of all things. Being kicked in the groin is incredibly painful and can be dangerous, not to mention humiliating.

Jezebel used to horrify me regularly before I realised just how much of it was tongue-in-cheek.

"People are anticipating dangerous times and are responding in the only sensible, logical way possible – they're buying guns!"