I’m afraid I can’t comment on the mental illness aspect myself. I apologize in advance by the way for this crazy long comment, but what you’ve said on here clicked with me.

I think the fact that you care about him and aren’t just being nonchalant about this, that you seem to realize that in a perfect world ending…

As someone who was on the other side of what you’re describing, i.e. who had a nascent thing ended by a girl who wasn’t impressed by my bedroom skills and was a little frustrated with the fact that I was a virgin at the time, I’d advise telling him the truth.

The short reason is I believe giving half-true reasons or…

Well actually, feminists are a least one group who cares about that.

When the draft was instituted, do you know who sued for gender discrimination? The ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project. They sued to have women included in the draft, believing a male-only draft to be sexist. NOW joined in, passing a resolution in…

“Thread-taming is a sucker’s game”

“The patriarchy” doesn’t mean a conspiracy of men subconsciously or inherently trying to oppress women. It doesn’t even mean the government is trying to oppress women. The idea that the patriarchy means sexism is inherent to men is actually something feminism has argued against.

We don’t sexualize men in the same way…

I see your point, but to me that’s justifying responding to bitter negativity with more bitter negativity.

The pile-on is just as derailing. Instead of talking about why they thought the story was good or asking him for more depth in his critique of the gameplay being gimmicky, they just made the conversation a dead…

That’s a fair point. Its true that Rashura’s comment isn’t really adding much and I picked the wrong hill to die on in this regard. However, I don’t really see ItAttracts’s response as adding much to the conversation either. Rashura at least had something to say relevant to the game (thought gameplay mechanic became…

I think responding to bitter negativity with more bitter negativity is just ironic.

That’s fair enough, but that’s partly my point. Responses like ItAttracts to Rashura’s are pretty mundane at this point too.

Yeah my comment wasn’t meant as a personal swipe at you, moreso a complaint at the trend that your comment represented.

Saying “let’s start with you..” and then making some same sarcastic swipe, just because I said something negative about your comment instead, is pretty much just perpetuating exactly what I mean.

Can we stop this trend on the internet where we act as if only you should only comment on an article or game in question if you’ve got something positive to say?

People can comment on why they don’t like X thing too. Its not wrong.

Well if you don’t believe there exists sexism on a societal level then I imagine that’s too large of a topic to try and get into here at the moment, but I’d encourage trying to maybe think about it less as a lack of objective view and more a macro-level difference that impacts individual actions. I think people shy…

I agree with your conclusion, but I would not compare the objectification of an apple to the objectification of women. Apples aren’t really “objectified” as they already are objects to begin with, women/humans aren’t. Saying you’re objectifying an object would just be tautological. Beyond that though, I agree. I mean…

I think its important though to look at the psychology of the human brain and realize we are still animals, animals whose brain and psychology is influenced in implicit ways that we don’t always have conscious control over.

Having agency doesn’t negate that influence, it just allows you to compensate for it somewhat.…

They’re fictional characters, but their impact on people and their role in societal norms, is real.

“I don’t know why you need to bring in studies that say “objectification is a thing”, because...yeah...duh. We know men and women find people attractive. That’s not the problem, it’s never been the problem.”

I don’t really agree with Haloman’s point but its seems like you’re drawing distinctions that say “sexual desire is okay”, but representing those desires isn’t. We’re supposed to find stuff sexy, but never try to create “sexy” images themeselves.

To be clear, this game and the Slave Tetris minigame are extremely distasteful.

However, your comment made me think of Papers Please. “Gamey” elements and gameplay systems can indeed be used to make the player engage in the kind of dehumanizing, dissociated thought patterns that ar seen in the “othering” of people, so…

I appreciate you bringing that up, most people sidestep trying to address that question directly. Although I can definitely think of examples where the lesbian dynamic is shown largely as a sexual tryst among mainly heterosexual partners, normally as a way to please a guy, this is normally in porn portraying a…

That makes sense to me, I imagine the context of the developer and Japan’s market is something I’m missing when it comes to my comments. Thanks for sharing your opinion and how it relates to your own experiences, sometimes people get upset when talking about these issues, its nice to be able to talk about it in a…