Ha! My friend, who just generally likes to dress nicely, had people thinking he was dressed as the tenth Doctor!

A fictional girl with a color theme that's supposed to remind them ofif an inside joke about anal rape, it's actually weirdly fitting for them.

Even more indicative of mommy issues - their nickname for Christina Hoff-Summers is "Based Mom". Yes, that's right, they can't even manage to talk about an adult woman they LIKE without explicitly showing their inability to view women as anything but a sex object, an evil witch, or some kind of proxy for their mother.

Yeah, I also started as an alchemist, and stupidly spent dosh on supplies until it became clear that it wasn't going to work long term. Fifteen minutes as a miner and bam, I'm drowning in minty ore and yellow stone. I wish I'd figured that out earlier!

Because that whole "not part of or don't like" aspect of things doesn't happen in a vacuum. Failing to question sexist cultural artifacts basically just guarantees that girls and women will continue to be unable to be part of or like things that they might actually like a lot if they weren't being de facto excluded.…

This is one of the best summaries of this I've seen. The way gamergaters talk about it makes it pretty clear. Hell, in this thread alone you have an example - Ed describes those who have issues with how women's bodies are portrayed in games as "outsiders" who "don't know anything about games". In his mind the only…

Yeah, I've often thought that the bias of perceiving white (or male, or straight, etc) as the "default" state is only perpetuated by refusing to acknowledge or examine it critically in the same way other identity markers are. This leaves white supremacists to make the narrative and allows the rest of us white folks to…

Watch the clip, she never actually specifies a particular member.

Well, alrighty then. I wish you luck contemplating the many, many highly unlikely scenarios and posting a comment encouraging us all to consider each of them.

This happened in March. Anita Sarkeesian has largely only gained non-feminist, non-gamer attention at two points - when her kickstarter blew up, and now. I would be really surprised if someone who didn't follow gaming media at all would be aware of her receiving this award well after the former and before the latter.…

I have had an OkCupid account for nigh on a decade now which I originally created just for the fun quizzes, not really for dating. I tend to go long periods without logging in, months or even years. My inbox is a testament to the modern male inability to regulate the emotional response to frustration.

My mom just has/does all of the above, no fucks given. Well, unless my brother is around, then she wears pants and closes the door when she pees. Those of us who are female and/or married to her get to deal, though.

Servers weren't public until midnight in New Zealand, which was only about ten hours ago. Until that point regular players wouldn't have been able to sign on even if they already had a copy of the game.

For real. Large white chunks coming out during your period is not at all unheard of, and the moment I read this that's what I assumed it was. Jumping to fetus JUST because it looks unfamiliar is stupid as hell.

I would've been sorely tempted to reach into one of their bags and when they inevitably freak out say, "Oh, I'm sorry, but surely if you put your things in a spot where I can reach them then there's nothing wrong with me doing so!".

Odds are he wasn't able to do that, he's just such an obsessive collector of nudes that he fell into the company of people who could do that (or knew a guy who knew a guy...).

My mom says I was almost born in the car on the way to the hospital because my dad was actually pretty familiar with the time giving birth usually takes (former farm kid with eight siblings) and was therefore not in any real hurry. Even then it was still almost two hours, though. Not exactly 'popping out onto the…

One of the weirdest parts is how convinced even ex-pats are by some of the crazy logic coming from Putin and his many media outlets. We have some common batshit ways of looking at the world in the US, too (American exceptionalism being a huge one), but there are always large sub-groups where that shit has no traction…

I actually dated my TA. All quite above board, as he waited until the end of the semester and verified it was alright with his advisor (the professor of my class) and the department before approaching me. I had definitely been flirting with him all semester, though. And although I still consider him one of my best…

I remember laughing when I randomly transformed into Guppy while playing BoI (I think I had Guppy's head, Guppy's tail, and the dead cat). RIP Guppy!