I think, as a woc, i tend to use some of these phrases in areas dominated by white people and i am just now beginning to unlearn it! Part of this has to do with the fact that I grew in a place that was supposedly “post colonial” but has continued in some ways to perpetuate the idea that white people are better and…

Please stop using rape as a descriptor for things done without consent. Trespassing, theft and harassment are all done without consent by definition, yet are not rape. You are only diluting the power of the word and encouraging dipshits to use it where it does not apply at all, like sports competitions.

Yeah, but Americans being pissed is enough to hurt their bottom line. Anyway, my point was that what Paramount and Dreamworks are doing to Ghost in the Shell (casting a white woman as a Japanese character) is worst than what Marvel is doing with Dr. Strange (changing a Tibetan character to a Celtic character).

As a studier of Chinese cinema and goverment (both legally and professionally) I can tell you this is absolutely correct; it’s the Chinese government they are being wary of as acknowledgment of Tibet will almost certainly result in the movie being banned in China (lest we not forget they only allow roughly 40 foreign…

They did. They also updated some characters to be way less borderline racist than they were in the source material, and I’ll be honest, this is one of them. Remember, you’re dealing with stuff from the 60s and 70s. Especially with the more “fanciful” titles, you get origins and characters who are, let’s say, in…

You do realise Jason responded to an article posted on a website, intended to be shared and read and commentated upon, not some private journal entry he stole from a bullied school child? Because I don’t feel like you do.

“Someone has a different opinion” is one way of putting it. Here’s another: A person in a position of power thinks that people with less power should stop acting like victims. This person, who helped create a game called AXE Body Spray Pogo Xtreme, argues that making games is not a job but an art. Therefore, he says,…

Thank you. I knew that as a Latin nerd. The objection I was citing was not my own, merely that of women who espoused the alternate spelling. If I recall correctly, the complaint was that woman does indeed contain the letters man.

nevermind—i just looked at your comment history here, and it looks like you are just an anti-feminist troll so i think i just wasted my words trying to reason with you as if you had a capacity for logic and a desire for genuine discourse. what a silly girl i am!

Yeah, but then they go away and come back brain damaged and mumbling about attack ships off the shoulder of Orion or some crap like that....

I was watching the trailer ready to cringe but it’s hilarious. I want to see this now.

In the recent Jez post about sex and robots I wrote about how in most examples of sex/companion robots I’ve seen in sci fi, the robots are much more valued for their companionship and safety role then they are for sex.

Why do women feel the need to write ironic articles about how they wished men were extinct?

You know why they do that? Because they don’t even bloody notice the emotional labor that the women are performing for them ALL. THE. TIME. So they only acknowledge the sex and the sammiches. I avoid reading those kinds of comments, because it would give me a rage stroke, but I used to listen to my clients talk about…

“If you expect me to believe that a bunch of kids (who have probably never written a thesis themselves) can give the first couple of pages (of a hundred plus page document) a light reading and come out able to “ah-ha!/Gotcha!/destroy a paper that a panel of Doctors couldn’t do over the course of a day...”

Using this opportunity to plug the greatest comic book of my lifetime, Y the Last Man, for telling this story (men going extinct) near-perfectly.

No, no real poor assumptions. Women, as a group, lack institutional authority to do anything about their “illogical” hatred of men. When we bring up misogyny, we’re talking about it as an institutional device. So when she, and others like her say that misandry isn’t real, that’s what they’re referring to. Do women…

Misandry does not exist. That’s a fact. There is no organized systemic discrimination against men.

For me it didn’t work.