This is what I think is the big thing about this GamerGate debate. Those siding on GamerGate have completely lost social filters from being on the Internet too long. This guy fucking said this. He fucking said he was going to lynch her. How do you explain this shit in a public presentation? With the rise of social…

^ This. It's very similar to the vitriol against the fabled fake geek girl and the backlash against the cosplaying community by elements of the geek subculture. For many years, this was the one space an introverted obsessive nerd type could feel insulated from what he perceived as a society that rejected him. It…

The irony of Anita Sarkeesian is that if it weren't for the unhinged reaction to her Kickstarter, 9/10 people, gamers, whatever, would ever have heard of her!

Mad props to a commentator over at Kotaku named Arden who posted this gem:

I don't TRY to do it, but if I have to poop at a guys house (or if he's at mine) I poop. I figure if he can't handle me pooping/knowing that I poop etc he probably doesn't deserve to see me naked.

I've been saying this for a while now.

I grew up in a time when being a "gamer" was cause for ridicule. Shit, admitting to owning a Nintendo in the mid-80's was a good way to get your ass kicked at my school (not at all schools, I understand).

Now that gaming's finally mainstreamed, and the hobby has -finally- gained…

/long rant

A male friend was a victim of domestic abuse. A female friend was a victim of domestic abuse. They did not have the same experiences getting help, etc because of gender roles, homophobia, sexism, etc. There is a place and need in society for general and specific help.

If MRAs really cared about Mens Rights,…

If it was a game that I enjoyed playing, then I probably would not choose to do this.

Yes, I'm saying take the poison out. Inoculate your relationship, because you're going to need to know that you can rely on one another when the real shit in life happens.

Re: why the first year is so difficult

Yea, um, you can have all these headaches about wedding gifts (what a non-problem) and structured conversations with strangers or you can do what I did, date for seven years so you know who the hell you're marrying first and then go make a deliberate choice to go to the courthouse and legally bind your life to the…

Who can blame Jeter for asking someone else to be the one who sucks ass for once?

Dear Ms Bialik,

Running through the streets with a flame thrower yelling "KILL ANYTHING WITH A FUCKING DICK" is man bashing. Some fictional characters in an animated Disney movie without a man as its central hero? Not so much.

You're welcome.

I thought Frozen took a look at the tropes Disney built itself on and tried to find a way to subvert them but still keep to the spirit of a Disney movie. I certainly never felt there was "man bashing" ( can we please not make this a thing btw. I only speak for myself and #notallmen but frankly we've done enough shit…

Online dating is just another kind of dating. It's not The Answer to Finding Love. If you just look at it as a way to meet people, it's not so daunting. I always thought "OK, I'm going to go talk to someone for an hour or two, and if he's a weirdo or not dating material, whatever, I've expanded my horizons by talking…

I know this ad is a joke, but can I rant about average/short women who demand that their boyfriends be at least 6 feet tall? Because it's absolutely real and common. Meanwhile, I've been 5'11" since I was 15 and I've dated MAYBE three guys who were taller than me. And I don't actually care at all anymore, but come on,…

The ladies who wrote the ad confirmed to Buzzfeed that they wrote the as a joke, "unless [they] find love, and then it's for real."

I always think that people who want 1500 word articles written about them in the newspaper don't care about what other people think.

If living in a rented house makes you homeless then I guess I've always been homeless.

Forums right after launch are usually entertaining, as the trolls crawl out of their holes to just spew ultimate hate at a game for the most minor of nitpicks. I've been watching the Dance Central Spotlight forums with amazement as I see "OH MUY GOD THIS GAME IS RUINED BECAUSE THEY REUSED MOVES AND THEY DON'T TALK!!!…