“actual issues” sounded more reductive than I meant it. I simply meant if you’re going to roll around into specifics, eventually you’re going to touch a lot of differing experiences so telling a group to “shut it” or defaulting to aggregate culture as representative of specific groups becomes an issue. At least if you…

While I kind of agree with you, I think if you look upthread at agenttremble’s point you see the issue. Feminist as a term is fine, but there often is an aversion to “what about the menz” thinking which gets really, really difficult to deal with when we start looking at many intersectional issues or actual issues such…

Umm... Both Doom and Quake had pretty dedicated death match communities. When it was original Doom/Doom2 anyway. I can’t speak much to Doom3, but both Quake and Doom were usually pretty solid in terms of full matches and full servers. Hell, Doom had DWANGO pre-internet which was basically dial in gaming and hosted…

My bad and correcting this. It was Parker Posey I was thinking of in relation to the Ali Forney Center, not Mary-Louise Parker.

Eh, maybe go back and stop the holding and defensive picking that’s going on and you’ll see the scoring go back up.

I’d also consider the economics of Amsterdam. Amsterdam doesn’t just serve its local population; it serves tourists in large number. So it might not be as instructive as we think if the entire US allowed prostitution as the domestic sex worker market is probably too small in Amsterdam for the volume they see. It…

I think you’re trying to understand something that is a bit of a political issue more than a Cesar Milan issue. That guy has had people disagreeing or attacking his techniques for a decade.

I think the issue the article highlights is what if you were the single target of the most dominant critic (I guess?) working in the industry now.

Well race and Bill Cosby is a weird linkage anyway if you consider the fact that the entire reason this became a story was because of Buress’s comedy routine which is entirely about punctuating Cosby’s public moralizing about black culture. He really had the opposite of community support.

Take it from someone who actually doesn’t care: it’s censorship.

Do “people” though or does the Democratic base? That’s been the argument for a while now. It’s not much of a shift to get a Democratic voter to believe what they already believe more. The question is when you get to a general, do you take a beating for those positions. And that has yet to be proven one way or another…

Because the idea of not being able to get a job without subscribing to the specific beliefs of your local majority could be in no way a bad thing? I’m sure we shouldn’t worry if Republicans won’t hire people that have Democratic connections.

I think you see that in every fight from Gun Rights to Abortion. I think because you can never count on a safe space, it’s really just a personal choice. Either you commit to having the adult conversation most of the time and realize you’re going to be ignoring people agreeing/disagreeing with you incorrectly. Or you…

The problem with managing is envariably that ends up involving some staged physical shenanigans. Unless he can find a way to always slip away, there’s always going to be a demand for him to take a fall.

No. 99% of people are just fine. It’s just that 99% of people is generally trash when it comes to dealing with that 1% that’s basically antisocial on their own. The entire reason rule of law exists, is largely because hundreds of years ago people realized that without police and courts, people would largely just…

I don’t have a breast cancer story, but I do remember when I was growing up that I developed a lump on my chest. It was interesting because talking with my Doctor, I largely had no idea that not only does it happen to men and that many men never get it checked out because of the assumption that it doesn’t happen.

The main problem is (as they point out) the unlikely event of no perceived moderate candidates in the race.

The thing I think people don’t get from people like Steinam or Albright is, they watched HRC bashed with the same cudgel Hillary’s opponents on the left are using for a decade and a half by misogynists from the RNC.

Umm, never?

What drives me nuts when I read things like that isn’t that they don’t like Hillary. It’s politics. What drives me nuts is often the lack of context in what is purported to be a feminist issue. When Dems bash the Clinton White House years, they sort of tacitly forget the Republicans had total legislative power for 6…