There is a lot of overlap between a certain subset of gamer and PUAs and MRAs and other horrible awful misogynists. (See gamergate).

There is something horribly ironic about a gamer culture that demands titillating fictional women IN games, but our right rejects titillating real women PLAYING games.

Yet again it’s women being blamed for guys thirstiness, guys will stare at boobs all day, even if it’s just girls walking around in bog standard t-shirts.

Well if he thinks “nothing is at stake” now, wait till he reads my sub-genre of Menopausal Mystery Erotica, in which our heroine pursues a man with very, VERY, cold hands...No one is safe...until the A/C is fixed.

“There’s nothing at stake” is just another way of saying female pleasure and desire, and romantic relationships told from a female perspective, are simply not important. If the themes in romance novels were important, then it would be important to see how the novels approach or treat these themes. Since the treatment…

Great piece. What did he even mean, “nothing is at stake”? All fiction is fiction. The stakes are almost always high for the characters, and almost always zilch for the reader, except to the degree he/she becomes invested in the story. Gottlieb’s “criticism” of the romance novels he’s read is lazy writing, tinged with…

Of course you’re right that video game publishers do some shady things, be it stuffing their games with microtransactions, showing off generous E3 demos when they know the game won’t look even close to as good, or — worst of all — exploiting labor practices to get unpaid overtime out of all of their workers.

I’m genuinely not sexist, and I genuinely don’t like her. A lot of people feel that way.

At the end of the day she lost and this is all her fault. Yes there was sexism but she couldn’t even win white women. Yes there was racism but unless she was sleeping for the last 8 years she should have been prepared for the backlash to Obama. Yes she won the popular vote but those were the rules to the game going…

Some days I’m just not sure how to continue living life while all this is going on. It feels irresponsible to go to work, have dinner with friends, sleep in on Saturdays. Is this what it was like to live in Germany in the 30s? I give money and I give time, but I feel like an asshole for keeping up any semblance of…

I don’t care about the Greek system but the members of that fraternity who were complicit in the kid’s death need to go to jail. It wasn’t an accident.

Exactly. It just seems to bring out the absolute worst in young people who are already testing their boundaries and for most having their first time being free from home. Add to that the desire to want to belong to “something” or a pack, and even if there is a voice of reason it will be ignored in favor of the rest of…

Abolish the Greek system.

Good morning PJ. I had a similar relationship with my best friend’s mother until, for my own mental sanity I had to cut her off. My best friend is white and I am black and I am the godmother her children (if the unthinkable happens, my BFF wants me - and not any one in her family - to take care of her kids, lawyers…