No, definitely not. There’s great social pressure on both boys and girls. As a girl and a math prodigy (not really exaggerating here - I did nothing with it in the end, but I was impressive as a kid) I was very much an outlier and very aware of this pressure.

Or you know, you could just say “point taken, let’s not make fun of women or men for the way they look on tv” and focus on the bigger picture. Instead, every second comment in this thread is an insult because the dude pointed out what he saw (admittedly a weak argument for double standards, dude needs to take a course…

It is kind of funny that this band shares a genre with a little act called Cannibal Corpse who have written and performed such lovely melodies as:

Yes, gender constructs start operating on babies on day 1. That doesn’t erase all biological differences. It just makes it harder to figure out what they are. But I don’t think that the way we teach boys to be into trucks and dinosaurs is what causes them to have an edge in certain types of math problems, but a…

Feminists can’t have this both ways. Either death threats are abhorrent and inappropriate and should be treated as legitimate threats or they’re not. To put it another way, if it’s wrong for GamerGate, it’s wrong for feminists too. And I bring this up because this is all the same shit that Brianna and Zoe caught when…

This isn’t quite fair either. We are primates, after all, and other primate species show some genetic differences between the sexes. Men tend to be better at spatial relations, for example, while women tend to be better at verbal logic. Little boys often show more interest in things with moving parts while little…

As a feminist who hasn’t always identified that way, I don’t think you’re being completely fair here. To people who are “against feminism,” it is not simply a matter of equal rights; it involves specific policy positions on topics like abortion and the prevalence of rape.

That’s the classic definition of feminism. Certain modern branches of it do quite the opposite and infantilize women.

People on the internet can get threats for just about any crazy thing, so it’s possible, and he needs to be given the benefit of the doubt.

To be fair (for some inexplicable reason, I dunno, just for the heck of it), I do think he was referring to the feminist social movement, as opposed to the ideas of feminism itself.

Unfortunately, feminism has become associated with more than just equal rights. It isn’t that simple anymore.

Oh sweetheart. Oh babe. You fucked up, you truly did.

That part made me uncomfortable as well. Can we be better than Gamergate, people? Please? We can make fun of this guy for his stupid remarks, we can decide not to buy albums or go to shows. Sending hateful messages does nothing to change this dude’s opinion, in fact it’s proving his belief that no one is allowed to…

I mean, while I’m glad this happened and all, I’m not super thrilled about the fact that the band broke up not because of anti-feminist Facebook statuses, but because pro-feminists were sending them death threats. Like...yikes, guys, can we not do that?

Dearest Jalops - as a person who usually rides his Bianchi to work if I’m not taking my 2011 Honda Insight Transportation Appliance to work, I sometimes feel vaguely hated on this site. To see you guys step the fuck up to try to catch a criminal is heartening.

LPT: Don’t base your entire online persona around a slang word for feces.

In the US you are legally required to enforce a trademark in order to hold one or else it becomes diluted and you lose it. There’s a high likelihood that other creators would have become collateral damage from this.