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Here's a happy thought: Old people will die soon. Good riddance.

I'm 29, so I'm a "millennial" but too old to be young (in my mind). I vote and have voted since I was able. I binge watch CSPAN.

This is before I read this article, BUT: wasn't this whole thing hinged on a right-wing outlet mistakenly saying Dunham was 17, when it turned out she was 7? Since she was 7, we generally do not ascribe sexual intentions with that kind of stuff, so what's the story even?

At face value, perhaps some might say "oh this is so disrespectful", but you seem to grasp some connections with the later parts of the game. If you don't mind (and I don't mind SPOILERS) what is that connection?

This mofo is double plating it. Double. Plating. It. (got to try this next time at buffet)

you know what? I can see you have your hands full dealing with multiple people saying the same thing I am, so I'll back off. For the most part though, I find your replies compelling. Keep up the good work!

Actually, all that other stuff does matter, because events in the game don't happen completely independent of other events (usually anyway). CONTEXT MATTERS.

If you don't play the games you critique, or even take into account the game context as a whole (plot lines, characters, etc.), and just take clips out, how is that NOT cherry picking data? You'd probably think it was weird if I talked about movies I haven't watched by taking 5 second clips and ignoring the rest of…

I agree. Self-examination is important. And I often wonder about racism and sexism in media in general and in video games in particular.

Both Anita and Jack Thompson got death threats. They both were put into video games so that violence can be done to them (you can claim it was harmless or not harmless, but it happened to both).

That's not my concern. My concern is that the lack of "more inclusion" (we can never have enough it seems) is being used as "evidence" that the gaming community (the players and makers) are all secretly/openly misogynist. I'm all for inclusion but don't smear my people.

I loved the part where he pressed her to name some games, and she hesitates. That was pretty funny.

Interrupting people is rude, although that can sometimes happen by accident. As a long-time academic myself, overall my interactions with female students/admin/faculty have been positive (and I studied philosophy in San Fran-LGBT & Women Studies-ciso).

Except she likes to imply, slyly because god forbid she make a substantial point, that the trends she's seen say something about gaming culture or game design on the whole. She goes from "these trends, though in and of themselves are not sexist, contribute to a sexist whole" to "these games are designed with the idea…

Because it isn't "always women".

Not easy to DO refers to the people who make that claim not at all being able to describe what that "more creative scenario" would look like. And if you can't articulate exactly what it is you want, and rather you just point at everything else and say "not that" you aren't being helpful. On to the main point:

murder simulator. MURDER SIMULATOR! AHHHHHHH! Thompson waz rite!!!! loljk

Breaking up with Storm was stupid, for a number of reasons. Last Straw.

Perhaps a comedy can be be detrimental (in the loose sense, cause sticks and stones amirite?) to women, but that'd have to be a mean-spirited, obviously pushing a misogynist message comedy where the punchline to every joke is like "women. they suck right?" and literally every woman on the show is inept, etc. Bad Judge…