I can't believe that ten (so far) people starred your confession of poisoning a coworker.

People do that to me in the library all the time. They'll walk up to the reference desk and look me in the eye and just say "Clifford." or "Elephants?" I like to dish it back at them until they get the point. "Lions." "Book?" "Yes." "Non-fiction?" "Yes." "Grade?" "... ... It's for my fifth grader who yadda yadda…

My dad is one of those, but reserves it for waiters. Was a captain at a fancy restaurant. "We're not at a fancy restaurant" is not a valid response to his position vis shitty tipping (according to him, obviously).

"Girls who are gamers like you don't deserve the treatment you get."

Have you ever been to io9? Full of women. Many of them feminists. They can't be that passionate about what they love and how they want to see it change if they didn't fucking love it in the first place. Why do you get this idea that people can't ask for more, for better, for thought, for things that they actually do…

Because feminists are a part of these things. Feminists are not a separate class of people who abstain from all media, descending only to criticize problematic aspects. Feminists listen to rap music and read Game of Thrones and watch movies, and yes, play games.

I've played game for my entire life, but feminism made me…

It's like you see absolutely no correlation between the game's content and the audience base it attracts and how they subsequently treat real women.

Actually that has been statistically inaccurate for several years now. We've known for a long time that women spend more on video games, and currently they comprise half the video game consumer base. Sorry, you lose.

I have a family member involved in that business. I don't think he makes bad money, but he spends all of it and then some on stupid shit, so he's always short on cash. And he basically hits like 95% of used car salesman stereotypes.

"(playing pokemin doesn't make you a gamer)"

Kudos for conceding that much, but I think you're being far too narrow-minded if the only thing that you see as being sexist in gaming is how people respond online to female players.

Females in games now are still by and large how females in cartoons were in the 80's: one female thrown in cast of countless males, is…

You're putting the carriage before the horse. We should be including women in meaningful roles as a way to get them to play games in the first place, rather than in response to them playing games.

And the material in games is either sexist or it isn't. Who is or is not buying and playing video games does not magically…

It doesn't matter who is or is not buying video games. The content is either sexist or it isn't.

Finally Chris Brown says something I totally agree with...that he should shut the fuck up.

Because that whole "not part of or don't like" aspect of things doesn't happen in a vacuum. Failing to question sexist cultural artifacts basically just guarantees that girls and women will continue to be unable to be part of or like things that they might actually like a lot if they weren't being de facto excluded.…

Leaving aside the breathtaking condescension in that sentence: do you think artists in the industry (indies notwithstanding) are given unfettered freedom to realize their vision today?

Are there more important issues for you to comment on? I'm kind of curious.

There are more important issues with my house than making sure the smoke-alarms have batteries in them. That doesn't mean I'm going to neglect keeping batteries in the smoke alarms.

>> Do these people going after "sexism" in video games even play or like video games?

I sure as hell play. I have for 28 years.