This was beautiful and amazing however, I'm sorry but that broke my suspension of disbelief. I could completely buy a writer's characters popping out of the page and going after her. I can't believe an aspiring author living in a place as nice as that. It's complete fantasy!

Hmmm, you're right. There are no women in the world who want to be firefighters, miners, construction workers, or truck drivers and that's why there aren't many— same reason there aren't many male nurses or teachers. It couldn't possibly be greater sociological pressures rooted deeply in patriarchal and misogynistic…

Earth typically plays host to one to several temporary satellites, such as 2006 RH120. These are small asteroids that get captured for several months by Earth before getting flung back into a solar orbit. These objects tend to be tiny, and thus are hard to spot. Therefore, the only reasonable answer to the question,…

She's more shrewd, practical, & is more ballsy than the men in the opposite party who will potentially run against her. She's got my vote. Also, I know this isn't exactly appropriate but I found it, love it, & looking for any excuse to use it. Please forgive my gaucheness.

I grew up well under the poverty line: Medicaid, food stamps, free lunch at school, etc. I am fully in support of these types of social programs and routinely defend them when idiots start blathering on (you'd be surprised how quickly someone shuts up about, say, the free lunch program in schools, when you point out…

ER doctors can be pretty terrible in general. My GP sent me to the ER to get checked out recently because I was having the symptoms of antibiotic-induced meningitis. You know, one of those "go to the ER immediately, do not pass go, do not collect $200, your life depends on it" kinds of extremely dangerous reactions.…

Karyn, would you consider adding AHA's symptoms of heart attack in women to the post? Confusion about the symptoms is a large part of why women are facing delayed treatment.

I thought I had had a heart attack or similar. I went to the emergency room and got a bunch of tests and finally the Dr asked, "What exactly made you think you had something wrong with your heart?" I said, for the millionth time, that I had for a few days experienced chest pain, nausea, radiating pain into my arm and…

Oh beatnik girl! Teach me how to do your eyes!!!!!

Men get to be powerful, women get to be attractive to powerful men.

It's not at all damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's damned if you do it in a stupid ridiculous way that caters to make fetishizing or damned if you don't bother to consider the realities of a woman's body at all in attempting to create a female character.

Breast physics and the degree to which they are applied might be a stylistic choice, but I have yet to play a game in which I would say any amount of breast physics was necessary or even appropriate. Even in sex scenes, but that's because I've never seen an explicit sex scene in a game that didn't make me cringe. You…

"Many games are full of exaggerated [male] forms," Alex said. "We don't point at those and go, huh, that doesn't look realistic at all. Of course it doesn't! It looks superpowered, and we like that. The same thing would apply to breasts."

You keep posting this multiple times per article, in multiple articles. You are SUPER invested in telling women that they are wrong about their own goddamn bodies.

Jesus, I'm convinced none of you are are actually reading what I wrote.

My girlfriend would like me to point out that if she were going to go into battle, or fight someone, or do pretty much anything physical, she'd be wearing a good bra that doesn't allow for much movement despite her larger cup size, and doesn't understand video game costumes at all, nor why developers feel the need to…

I have a theory about people who become wildly successful/famous on the level that Steve has achieved: their relationship with their past, pre-fame and success, is an either or proposition. Either they embrace it. Or they shed it like a snake sheds its skin, leaving it in the middle of the road, to dry up and blow…

I completely disagree. Rape means something extremely specific- penis in vagina. Sexual assault covers a gamut of things, but it doesn't specify exactly which horrible, devaluing act was perpetrated on the victim. The victim deserves privacy. And sexual assault gives the victim as much privacy over the grisly details…

its not alone

I love Cate so much. She is my ultimate celebrity lesbian wife crush. I just want to grow old with her and borrow her wardrobe.