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You sound pretty stressed; maybe you should play some Peggle.

Ketchup is boring.

If we did not analyze power dynamics in terms of material conditions and instead analyzed them from an idealist perspective, we would run into little more than baseless conspiracy theory. Perhaps you have a more reasonable idealist way to look at it, and if so, I'd love to hear it out; I just think idealism can be…

The idea that men are consciously banding together to oppress women is a paranoid delusion, I agree. Women are still being oppressed, though, and the explanation is in materialism; it was never in conspiracy theory.

"In saying rape is oppression, you are purposefully ignoring all men who have been raped, making rape JUST an issue for women, and then saying that men use rape as a form of social oppression."

I'd say that this is a pretty big leap in logic. Rape being used as a tool of oppression against women by a patriarchy does…

Being a form of oppression and being a crime are not mutually exclusive properties. Kotaku never stated that Temkin was a rapist; they stressed the importance of remembering that false rape accusations are extremely rare and that there is rarely anything to gain from falsely accusing an influential individual of…

It's not a double standard because, again, it's apples and oranges. Adultery is a breach of trust between two individuals, but is neither a tool nor byproduct of an oppressive culture, unlike rape. I'd say that believing that the breach of consent performed through cheating is anywhere near as damaging or at all…

Kotaku has covered more than just video games for years. It's a media website for video games, tabletop games, and things gamers are also probably interested in (Such as teh animu).

The parameters are extremely different for a controversy regarding rape and one regarding cheating, though; rape is a form of oppression and is a symptom of much wider systematic oppression and thus news regarding rape would be relevant to the interests of those who are also affected by said systematic oppression,…

"if this was about a male developer, there would have been open discussions and articles on Kotaku and other gaming outlets"

I'm not really in the loop on this thing and don't really have an educated opinion to offer on which side of the controversy I agree with myself (The large amount of misinformation and angry…

Equality isn't sweeping all of the different experiences and problems people of various backgrounds face under the rug and cramming everyone under one great big homogenous label, but recognizing that everyone is different and that's okay.

You will draw attention to and thus hopefully change the often misogynistic…

I just don't see why you'd intentionally use the form "I'm not x, but y" if you're aware of the connotations it has when discussing serious/social topics, unless your goal was to draw immediate ire; regardless of whether or not your post expresses homophobia, it's not practical at all.

"I'm not something, but..."

It's great with fries and any meat, really.

That episode was probably one of the most beautiful and poignant takes on death I've ever seen in an animu (And without a doubt one of the most surreal). I honestly don't see how some sections of the anime fandom can't stand Space Dandy; it's really a lot more than the surface-level humour lets on. The show is a…

Your loss; you really are missing out on the best, most aesthetically and narratively experimental cartoon on television right now. Last weekend's episode was a masterpiece.

Man, if there were official full-sized rubber masks from this game, I'd buy them all.

These are really neat figures, though.

It would be to push for drug reform/legalization. Accepting an unjust law might be the "simple" solution, but it is neither the ethical nor progressive one. One adds nothing valuable to the discussion by just saying "don't do drugs because the law is draconian and has a history and it is what it is."

The simple solution is virtually never the only solution, and if it isn't, it's not the right solution.