The exchange about this subject I just had in my house:

I think those kids would get those ideas regardless of games, though. Games do not make people violent, that's established fact.

I'm referring directly to what the NRA claimed. They claimed there is some shadow conspiracy. There isn't. They're insane. If you want to discuss the violence in our culture and what does or does not perpetuate it, that's worthwhile. But that's not what the NRA wants or they'd be using better examples than Mortal…

As someone married to a game designer and a writer of occasionally violent stories, I'm so tired of this argument. There is no secret conspiracy of game developers trying to make society violent. Yes, sometimes their are gratuitously violent games. Which parents should be monitoring. Kids don't play those in a vacuum…

DOWN TROLL, DOWN. Get thee back to thy cave before a righteous smiting is set upon thee!

It would probably help if we discussed and actively combatted the way sexism discourages women from doing that. In some of your other comments you've accused people of playing the "victim" card by acknowledging the simple fact that, because of sexism, women are generally raised NOT to put themselves first, not to…

You were doing kind of okay until "you very likely will change your mind so don't go making big pronouncements". That actually is condescending and unnecessary.

The thing is, peplum can be very flattering for certain figures when they're in the back, like they should be. The front peplum thing is just weird and no.

I'm with you. I've seen people doing the same thing with the Star Trek trailer and I'm like, uh, nothing about this is "bad" sounding. It's like everyone is in a seriously cranky mood.

Other than the obvious wtfery of these two, I find it interesting that they assume that "god" was not in any of these people's lives just because it wasn't a religious school. How do they know whether the children and women who were killed were religious or not? Maybe they all went to church every week. They don't…

What a useful, obtuse, and stupid comment. Well done! I hope you feel proud of your contribution of zero.

I loved it. It was amazing. It retained the levity of the book while contextualizing it, the way Tolkien intended, with the rest of the world of Middle Earth. I loved the opening, I loved seeing the dwarves history taken seriously, I loved that they were given actual personalities and gravitas.

Jesus, thank you. No one should be even taking these pics. -That's- the actual issue.

Wow. Are you actually this completely unaware of the issue of hair and racism, or just trollin'? Because if it's the former, you should maybe read up on the issue when it comes to black women. It's absolutely all about racism. Her choice to keep her hair short and natural is entirely relevant and she had every right…

Uh, what? I put "fit" in quotes because fitness is subjective. Lots of people are very healthy and physically fit but don't look "cut" or muscular. Hence "fitness" is relatively subjective and individual.

That's a false dichotomy. Women are oppressed all over the world to different degrees. No one is arguing that American women have it worse. What they are arguing is that there are ways we can and should improve equality here AND elsewhere. It's not mutually exclusive. You can address concerns of equality locally and…

I'm guessing this woman has not watched/read any news in the past like 15 years and the apparent "Obesity Epidemic" rhetoric that is EVERYWHERE. Or maybe she's never watched TV or been online or read a magazine where every other ad is about weight loss. Or noticed that fat shaming is pretty well ingrained in our…

A good friend of ours just dealt with throat cancer that was caused by HPV. It had been dormant for at least 10 years. She dealt with debilitating chemo and was very lucky to survive. I'm not a huge fan of people calling it "nbd" because some strains aren't so serious.

Yes, but we are not talking about that are we? No. We're talking about the US. They are filing underage lawsuits, which implies they were not age of consent.