Would you mind elaborating? I remember her posting about it--and I think a public figure posting about something sensitive is fair, especially for something that is stigmatized and requires support like miscarriages--but I don’t remember any sorts of ads or sponsorships or anything surrounding the miscarriage. Did I…

Whoops, my bad! I’d seen that Stodden is non-binary but completely spaced when I typed my response. Too late to edit it because Kinja, ugh. Thanks for the reminder :)

I literally said that she’s gross, my dude/dudette. I firmly believe people CAN indeed learn (though we’re under no obligation to continue to fuck with people even after they have done so), but I specifically said that Teigen’s behavior was disgusting. Understanding where it may have come from isn’t me exonerating…

Yep!

Oh yeah, I’m not saying that the private messaging was acceptable by any means (and I didn’t realize it was over such a long time holy SHIT)--I’m mostly thinking of how so many people (especially gamers and such) tended to frequent places like 4chan and such back then, how edgelord stuff was still pretty common on and…

Holy fuck, I didn’t realize it was over that long of a timespan. I think it’s fucked up to have even tweeted that shit in the first place. Courtney deserves MUCH better.

I agree as a whole, though I do think that kind of “””humor””” was a lot more widespread online 10 years ago than now. A lot of people that were otherwise normal human beings would do shit like that, from what I remember?

I was literally going to say that I like Teigen as a whole, that this was 10 years ago and the way the internet/society works is different now (in that it seems like power dynamics are more recognized and we’re a little less likely as a whole to target women for being victims). That brand of ~edgy humor~ seems to be a…

It’s so frustrating because I can see where the attitude comes from. So many assimilated queer people use assimilation as a way to attack queer people that don’t fit into that mold—it’s respectability politics. The focus on assimilation as acceptance, too, often ignores the existence of the people that don’t fit in. I…

I’ve had some friends that have lived in that area, and it seems amazing. I grew up in Chandler and lived in Tempe during college and for like 4 years afterward, myself--bf and I are in Chandler again because of rental prices lol. That Central and Camelback area has a lot of cool places around it nowadays.

I like the idea of this piece as a whole, but I think it misses the mark in quite a few ways :/ Maybe it’s just the wording, but saying that we queers often leave homophobic small towns, move to urban centers, and realize we just want to move back doesn’t sound accurate to me: there’s a huge difference between moving…

Sadly, that’s far from the only story of that type. It feels like there are stories every few months of queer people getting bullied in their own homes, from homophobic graffiti to outright threats and so on. I’m sure it changes depending on the area. I’ve personally felt safe in my Phoenix, AZ suburbs, but my…

Media literacy is definitely something that a lot of fans could use, whether it’s in gaming or movies or television or books. I’d even go so far as to say that we could use even a bit more understanding of how the creative process itself works rather than just being able to recognize messages and such.

There aren’t enough polygons!

Oh, come on, cut it out with the strawmen. The argument isn’t “don’t ever write a black person if you’re not black”; it’s “don’t write a story centered around blackness and identity if you’re not black.” No matter how much research you do, there are going to be nuances there that are missed if you’re not black. Having…

You realize that, by nature of games being a collaborative effort, the artist’s creative vision is inherently compromised, right? Whether it’s shareholders dictating specific elements of the game to execs vetoing ideas or the normal changes that happen during development, nothing we see is some pure creative vision.…

Take a closer look at the US Census. It lumps Latino/Hispanic in with white, meaning my brown ass whose family’s been in New Mexico since it was Mexico still has to check “white.” The race options on the Census were white, Asian, Black, Native, and Alaskan Native; there was a separate question asking if you’re…

Oh man. It’s not quite the same, but check out Doki Doki Literature Club, if you haven’t already.

The first time I played Clock Tower, a friend of mine had hacked my PSP and put a bunch of SNES games on it. I had no clue what it was and booted it up, but somehow I managed to completely bypass the introduction without actually selecting the “quick start” option, placing me in the middle of a hallway with no idea…

he came up with