Well, one of the things he says about guys like this is that they are some of the most faithful in the ideal of “the American Dream”, the ones who never give up hope in that ideal. But they are also guys who get burned by it, end up not finding the opportunities they expect to have, that their forefathers had before…

I cannot speak to Gearbox’s intentions, but the Unity engine is fairly portable, so if they were ever planning on a Mac version the cost to port should not be too much of an impediment.

I have not finished reading it yet, but it has been elucidating so far. It does not focus on just domestic abuse, lots of movement politics and explosive episodes too, covering things like why so many misogynists and racists seem so pissed, why disenfranchised low-information white voters flock to politicians that…

Also, the conviction rate for accused rapists is abysmally low. Heck, I am not even sure someone like Cosby will get convicted.

Supply-Side Jesus.

Some of the reading I have been doing lately (particularly Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel who does lots of psychotherapy to treat abusive men) says that most male domestic abusers tend to hit their spouses when they feel like their sense of masculinity is being undermined. They have internalized a lot of toxic…

I am reminded of the public records done in reply to MLK and the civil rights movement, the letters to the editor, the open group letters sent to MLK himself, etc. The kind of “bad ally” type of thing, written by white people who assert of course they are not racist, they hate how badly black people might be treated,…

How long is that list, and does it shrink or grow every year?

Do everyone’s kids a favor, and at the PTA meetings denounce the parents complaining about the “immorality” of comprehensive sex-ed in schools.

I remember reading that we have prohibition to thank for having gender-integrated drinking establishments and the modern club scene. Taverns had previously been “men’s spaces”, but a speakeasy did not exactly have the luxury of being discriminating in the gender of its clientele. Hence the birth of the tradition of…

If there were ever a representative figurehead for angry, entitled, establishment white guys, it would be Donald Trump.

In my more optimistic moments, I think of Trump as a figurehead promoted by a conspiracy of saner Republicians to act as a lure to draw the craziest elements of their party away from mainstream power and into third-party irrelevance so they can shift the Overton Window back to the center so they could actually have…

They operate on a kind of zero-sum mentality of privelage. To them, there is no such thing as equality, some must rule and others must submit, and if one is not ruling it must be because someone else is chipping away at their power. A gain for someone else is always a loss for them.

I have said before, developers and publishers cannot stop piracy from happening, but they are under no obligation to make piracy easy.

No kidding! As a man, nothing makes me want to punch a guy like him voicing misogynistic entitlement.

You know, I am going to go out on a limb here and postulate that your father probably taught you never to hit a girl, or something along those lines, and you are trying to reconcile this value with a more gender-egalitarian world. That is fine, but I think that this value can be distilled to a more core element. A…

MizzMazz summed up my position pretty nicely. Of course I would, though given the current climate of gender norms I doubt that would happen much. The reason I go straight to the punching is because some guys seem to take anything less than that as invitation to continue.

I fully support a woman’s right to slug a man in public who attempts to grab her nipples without her explicit or implicit permission, and simply having them bare is not, as these reps have suggested, implicit permission .

It is a characterization slapped onto feminism by its detractors since at least the Suffrage Movement. There are two factors at work in the minds of the people who repeat it: a) feminists want partners and have high standards for them and b) feminists’ own actions drive away potential partners, leaving them bitter and…

I think many of them do genuinely believe that if they make the economy as a whole grow, it will create new opportunities for people faster than the rate of population growth and companies will have to offer more incentives to compete for workers, thus raising the average wage.