Actually, the reason Norovirus is so contagious is because you shed the virus for up to two weeks after your symptoms stop. Most people don't realize they are still contagious for so long. The length of time someone with Ebola is infectious is much more publically known, and so far people here who have been cured are…

yes, nauseous pregnant women have been known to be global killers

I am trying to do this right, because while your reply enraged me, I don't want to attack anyone. I am a female gamer. I enjoy RPGs and first-person shooters, so I'm not some casual Bejeweled or Stardom: Hollywood player (not that there's anything wrong with that, those games are fun). I can spend hours and hours…

"Remove boobs and add rainbows and unicorns to the game? I have no clue what the vast majority of women would enjoy in a game - at least not enough to get them to devote the time and money into the hobby that men do. Similarly, I have no idea how you'd get me to buy a closet full of shoes. I'm just saying that the…

Point 1... I agree with you. As a woman, I don't think the female form should be demonized. And there certainly should and will be games that come out with scantily clad females because of course guys (and some girls) like looking at them. And there is definitely nothing wrong with that.

I don't care who they market games to; what I do care about is someone calling me a 'child' for enjoying some boobs.

Let's try to get to the core of the matter: What you're saying is that games should be marketed to women,

Partially because there aren't hordes of people publicly fantasizing about raping Peter King or making credible terrorist threats using his home address. (This kind of behavior tends to understandably divert attention from the central argument.) And also because there's no reason a video game developer can't date a…

Because Gamergate isn't ragging on Peter King. They're brutally harassing women who work in independent games development and journalism. Those are the high school sports reporters of video games. The equivalent to Peter King and the NFL in video games is IGN and EA. Gamergaters haven't said squat about them.

To put it simply: because there are bigger fish to fry.

Oh, the "fake feminists" started it? Not the ex who enlisted a bunch of clowns to attack and vilify a woman based solely on the notion that she'd maybe slept with some guys and those guys may have written about her game? Those people jumped at the chance to excoriate Zoe Quinn and when they rightly got called on their…

I'd offer one mild correction. It's true that this is probably the most vitriolic case of unexamined privilege we've seen in a long while, but the double-bind is that even though these are straight white males, they're the straight white males who are at the bottom of the totem pole. They're nurds. This is why…

To be fair... I've been reading comments here for years, and this is the first time I realized that.

Penis Dildo and The Lace Fronts

Fuck them. Run it 24/7. Fuck them with a shovel.

Maybe they should try praying away the video.

$80,000?! But he's probably just going to spend it all on penis dildos and lace fronts!

You break it, you buy it. They broke their relationship with their son, and now they have to deal with the consequences of that. You don't get to be a bigot and then get to duck what you reap from being that way.

I could never have lived with myself hiding it expressly to take money from my parents. And mine behaved worse than his when I came out.

I can't imagine how difficult it would be to hide a fundamental part of yourself from your family, even if you knew that there would be negative consequences, especially as you enter adulthood. I don't understand why you are casting judgment at his choice.