Honestly, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. My original comment was frustration and sadness at those who get annoying/threatened by women characters, and my followup was saying how I can understand and empathize with criticisms of “strong women” being pigeon-holed as men with breasts. I thought I responded…

I don’t entirely disagree with you, but it becomes a silly chicken and egg problem, in a variety of ways.

Look, let’s start this off by again pointing out that Sarkeesian is not really someone I’m defending, as far as her critical apparatus goes. Not for me.

The social agenda complaints are entirely fictional. It is entirely made up of people that see inclusion of people other than the traditional as some sort of threat to themselves.

Look, dude, at no point did I insinuate that you were arguing against diverse characters. Look again.

Oh, I guess we were just having different conversations. Sorry. I saw you as defending the masculine reaction as through the feminist lens, instead of the feminine position of power as being able to exist as a position of power.

Let me clarify: I did not mean to imply you believed in the politics. Apologies if I insinuated otherwise.

I’d love a few examples of such works.

Dude, your argument is based on very loose, mostly uninformed ideas without any actual understanding of what was happening through the 50s through the 80s, and which doesn’t actually back up his argument that”a lot” of feminists are angry at young feminists today for making choices.

Huh ? My comment was only the people who are troubled and threatened by the mere inclusion of women. This obviously does not implicate anyone who is not troubled or threatened (or, like you, who couldn’t care less).

Where are these “ a lot of older feminists” who are looking down on young feminists choosing to be mothers? I’ve seen flair-ups between older feminists and younger women who say that a woman’s place is in the home, but never between feminists. I’ve seen ideological arguments as to what might best “advance” the cause,…

This is 100% a bullshit argument. I mean, it COULD be correct, but it is always used in the absolutely wrong reasons. Name a single instance in which the story is somehow hurt by a character being a woman instead of a man, etc.? The only thing that feels pandering is that there IS inclusion. What happened in this…

I don’t really care for Sarkeesian’s criticism, so I’ll skip those reviews, but I would like to point out that this sounds like a fair criticism. A strong woman shouldn’t just be a woman who has the “traits of a male hero,” as that is ridiculous, especially from her ideological point of view (which conceptions our…

you are absolutely correct

It really bums me out that people get so upset by women being represented. As if women being capable of great skill or importance is somehow a surprise, and not simple reality. It bums me out because it is an opinion people use to try and cause actual harm to others, but also because it is a shame that capable women…

The show is so much better than the books. The books have an interesting conceit and a great twist (at the end of the first), with some absolutely TERRIBLE writing throughout. The show is cheesy, but isn’t written by twelve year olds

The show is so much better than the books. The books have an interesting conceit and a great twist (at the end of…

Yup. Not only did he predict it, but he perfectly explained why these aren’t actually GOOD. Pretty, but dumb.

No, the article discusses how METACRITIC can harm developers. The reviewer has no responsibility to hand out a score to a score website so that a game can reach an average arbitrarily set by a publisher to award bonuses. The point of reviews is to give people buying advice OR to engage in a critical commentary (it can…

Incompatible with LG G3

Pretty great quick scope shots, but the real heroes here are those commentators. No idea what they’re saying, but DELIGHTFUL to listen to. Especially infectious laugh guy.