... And here I had always thought that song was about me.

Lmfao. He is a male feminist. INcels, mras, mgtows, and shitposters could have told you he was abusive by the very nature of being a male feminist. They are all actively trying to make up for their own terrible treatment of women.

He is the guy who is hoping if he stays in her life long enough and is there at the right time, the right night, she’ll give in and sleep with him.

There was zero ambiguity as to who she was talking about, it’s not exactly You’re So Vain.

Orrrr, neckbeard shows the girl this page, thinking that she’ll be pissed that her bf wrote in to an advice columnist, but she actually gets a neutral 3rd party view on what an ass he’s being.

I sure hope so!

I have a friend who falls into this category who caught me reading kotaku on my phone and he called me out on it all like “EWW KOTAKU! PATRICA HERNADEZ BLAH BLAH BLAH”. I though it was funny as hell.

RE: Dumb and Angry

I don’t think it really is as much of an issue of us getting more so much as (and this is a subtle difference) that persons of color are not given as much as they should to begin with.

Honestly if he (Harriot and HuskyBro) tied this into nerd culture some more it’d be on point. Comic nerdboys upset at a black Captain America and a female Thor are the MAGA crowd in miniature: folks in their feelings about going back to the WAY IT WAS (ignoring all the problematic shit that made folks feel weird about…

Of course they didn’t do it specifically, they did it because they just knew that the perfect dude to be Captain America was a white man by default. That’s the way of the world.

Oh, so they used a cosmic cube to bring back the “real” Steve Rogers? Was that the same cube that Red Skull used to turn “Snap” Wilson, a drug dealing pimp into a Sam Wilson, acceptable Negro Sidekick to Captain America?

You talk about debate skills. Adding in personal insults to your argument is not debate, it’s kinja.

So afriendtotell can’t use long paragraphs to clearly explain why you have a predisposed accusatory view but you can use extensively pretentious vocabulary to seem like you’re making a legitimate point... okay. Who’s debate skills suck? Is fanciful language > an explanation in debate?

It would also be pretty fucking weird if Kotaku’s cosplay section ignored SEVENTEEN highly regarded cosplayers who got together to cosplay literally every fucking character in one of the greatest video games of all time.

It’s okay to be wrong. It’s also okay to read more about the subject and realize it’s way more complex than the binary you’re so doggedly holding onto.

Women in videogames are characters in a videogame, and thus come with no expectation of agency whatsoever, unless you’re implying that the singularity has arrived.

Hell yes. I actually missed that post, since I only regularly check out the main Kotaku page; so thanks for the link!

Thank you.

Women in videogames have no choice, because they’re fictional characters that have as much agency as their writers/creators/the script gives them.