You realize that all 146 of those women were international trafficking victims (who were being interviewed by an anti-trafficking organization....) and not voluntary sex workers right?
While it's certainly important to hear their stories, we also need to hear the stories of voluntary and survival sex workers.…

I'd love to see those links.
Also decriminalizing doesn't increase demand... it decreases the costs of purchasing (in terms of legal risk to the purchaser). That demand is partially *unmet* in an criminalized framework but it still exists. Economic theory would suggest that criminalization will increase the chances…

sup. You realize I gave examples of female characters who occur in games and aren't sex objects, right? You might want to re-read my comment and try to comprehend it this time.

But that's right, for some reason you think my political identification means I'm not qualified to speak on a subject. You of course fail to…

"It would be the first time in history that an entire sector decided to skip on enormous piles of cash, because principles."

You realize that colleges didn't used to admit paying female students, right?
Or that hollywood still has trouble making movies for women by women?

The only creative industry I can think of that…

Because applying an argument about comic book characters to romance novels isn't going to cloud the issue or anything.

Men in romance novels novels can and are sometimes objectified. I'm not sure how often it occurs. But I know there are some romance novels in which those men have agency and aren't purely sexual…

You do realize that literally everyone is biased right?
As scientists we are trained to try to minimize how our biases affect our work, but we still sometimes fail.

In a political debate we should be biased. But we should still try to examine other arguments without bias, and see where there merits are.

But everyone is…

Tell me again how enabling youtube commenters to send her rape threats is similar to peer review? Because I'm a little foggy on why you're comparing those.

Also it's not cherry picking because she's not "ignoring a SIGNIFICANT portion of related cases" that contradict her position. How many games can you name with "a…

Can you explain how this is weakly supported?
This was literally the first google result: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-per…
followed by a page of academic looking references in google.

Which claim do you think is weakly supported?

Because as a gamer, let me tell you how the people I know who have the poorest ability…

You know, it's possible to consider only violence against women in a paper or video and leave violence against men to a different paper or video. That's not cherry picking data. It's limiting one's examination to a specific question of interest.

Do you want her videos to be even longer? Are you willing to fund a…

Dude, as an academic scientist, let me just say you're wrong. If you cherry pick data in order to support a generalized claim that you know darn well isn't supported by all the evidence that is available to you, then yes, you deserve to be banished from academia.
However if you turn a huge pile of difficult to…

A trope is a trope even if it is subverted.

Not counting it would be like not counting a show that had violence in it as violent because it turned out that the show had a non-violent ending.

The fact that a straw feminist was used is all that will be seen by some people who view that episode — because some will always…

As a man, and a gamer, and a feminist, let me just say you really really missed the point of Anita's videos.

Also she's using the word misogyny in a way you're probably not used to. Feminists often say "X is misogynistic" as a shorthand for "X propagates, advances, supports or encourages ideas that are harmful to…

Except in the United States the government has repeatedly attempted to criminalize the possession of drawn images that depict fictional characters who appear to be minors. Such laws include the <b>Child Pornography</b> Prevention Act of 1996.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_sta…

I've been looking for that kind of testimony for a while but haven't found it. Can you link me to it? Or at least give me an idea how to search for it while minimizing my chances of finding something unsavory?