My problem with that video is that she thinks Sarkeesian was criticizing the female characters themselves and not the creators who wrote them into marginalized roles. It also falls into the trap of not recognizing that exceptions to the rule are just that: exceptions. Sarkeesian showed clips of dozens of games that…

I totally get why this could bug people. That said, I like the song. I'm not gonna claim its great music or track of the summer or anything but it's catchy and dumb in all the right ways and I usually like Rihanna songs. Rihanna turned it down (or at least her reps did), Miley took it.

Tywin, Roose, and Balon need to all move into a single castle to raise the leftover orphaned Stark kids as a way to make amends.

I hear the Playstation Move controller works great for first person shooters and there are attachments like the MOVE Precision Shot 3. And since PS4 will support existing Move hardware, its not a bad investment. But you will need to use the the secondary joystick in your other hand to move around as most console…

Real talk? Props to Nintendo for FINALLY putting Peach back into a A-List Mario game as a player character.

The main part that resonated with me was the part about policy. It's actually trivial for PRISM to do what we all fear they're doing if you ignore the bugfuck insane scale of it. And for most people it doesn't matter. Today. But how would you feel if this story was broken during a crazy evangelical cowboy fascist…

And how does our state "protect" black people in high crime urban areas? By locking them up in disproportionately high numbers and shipping them off to one of our many dozen for-profit prisons across the state. Meanwhile the communities have fewer and fewer men to work and support families, driving young kids to try…

Pass. I consume more than enough fiction filled with ironic, self-aware, meta side-eyeing.

"The thing going on right now are people that are not nerds are claiming to be."

There is a legitimate rift between comedy geeks who remember a time when comedy clubs were essentially private spaces and the young folks who live in a world where anything said publicly is immediately available for public scrutiny. This applies to women's issues, race, and other rough subjects. Most comedians have to…

I buy disposable single blades for my face and spend about as much. Even ditching them after two uses, it takes me almost a month to go through a 3 dollar bag of them. I keep trying to explain the world of difference between dragging one sharp edge across your face and three or four to my friends.

As a mostly smooth guy, I really dislike having leg hair and shaved for a number of years. The coarser and thicker it became with age it was just more trouble than it was worth. It just seems to be a completely evolutionary hangover and it gets pulled at awkward places.

I'd never heard of her before, but someone mentioned Sue Perkins as their choice. I think she'd be brilliant. She has an amazing professorly manner and quick wit that just screams Doctor:

Back in classic series days Colin Baker played Commander Maxil in a 5th Doctor story prior to being cast as the 6th Doctor. The writers got around it by simply never referencing it again. There's precedent for weirdness like that.

Oh wow, that is some curly hair. Maybe they were discontinued by the time my sister was into Barbies in the mid 90's. Never seen those before.

Anyone know if it's particularly difficult to get doll hair to frizz-curl like Merida's? Granted its obvious they didn't even try to maintain a likeness; I've just never seen tight curls like that on a small toy.

Did anyone watch all of Boardwalk Empire? I feel like that show did a pretty good job of showing a range of women characters in the 20's including some flappers. Granted, its yet another tragic King Lear/Mob story so its not like many characters get happy endings and most of women are side characters, but if Gatsby…

Wayne Knight geeking out over fake shaving cream is probably my favorite thing. Can't wait to have a day off to go see this. I was one of the unlucky kids with responsible parents who didn't bring their 7 year olds to R rated movies.

Eh, little victories where you can get them. We are talking about one the least respected professions in the country.

Because when MRA's bring up sexism against men, its almost always in the context of shouting down and drowning out the legitimate complaints that feminism brings up. There's never any mutual understanding along with it like "Hey, I've experienced something similar, I totally get where you're coming from. Lets discuss…