>There’s a difference between saying everyone in a group is worse and saying the average is worse

Chhetri closes the piece by justifying the relevance of “Smashers Against Sexual Assault,” arguing that “Sexual assault isn’t a women’s issue, or a gaming issue, or a men’s issue. It’s a human issue. Do your part to keep our Smash scene safe.”

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To birth one asshole may be regarded as a misfortune (see Chet Haze and Tom Hanks); to birth two looks like bad parenting.

We just sort of showed up one day and started wrecking shit with our gross selves, like The Thing.

There is no bigger group of butt-hurt whiners in America right now than white Christian men. Hence the support for Trump.

I’m going to start emailing and commenting on any media that mentions men and ask why they talk about men all the damn time. At least that complaint is based in fact.

Thank you. I ground my teeth.

Rogue apostrophe in second sentence.

“Alison Rapp is a person who, long before any of the current controversy, as a pr person on her public Twitter announced that “misandry does not exist”. In my book, any time you want to belittle the plight of an entire group of people (see holocaust doesn’t exist, there is no racism toward blacks, etc.) you can just…

Thanks! I definitely don’t think women think the same way when hearing about a new guy at work. Because we assume they won’t be hot, because most people aren’t hot. If someone walks into the office and happens to be sexually attractive to women, that is against the odds. In my experience, women are not nearly as…

I don’t believe it on an intellectual level. It’s something I’ve internalized.

But “this” doesn’t refer to go-go dancers. It go-go dancers in this context.

There’s some social contract involved with dancing (or going to see dancing) at a club. Everyone knows what they’re signing up for and some women even find some agency in exhibitionism and the control of mens’ arousal.

But this was a…

It’s not that direct and specific, don’t be pedantic. Nobody is claiming a town which has more strip clubs will have worse sexual assault statistics (although I’ll bet you you’d be shocked how many sexual assaults happen at or around strip clubs). It’s about the fact that an overall accepted culture of the…

Huh? People aren’t mad just because there were sexy female dancers at an event or that kids could see them (seriously why are you bringing up kids?), people are mad that Microsoft hired sexy female dancers at a professional event. This has no place at a professional event, especially a professional event for an…

The very concept of dressing women as school girls and having them dance around at a party for adults in pretty skeevy by any measure, let alone when it’s done by a corporation that had just finished hosting a ‘women in gaming’ luncheon.

woah did this guy just ask for a citation? he’s cool. making big calls. yeah wow he’s right there is no evidence that sexual violence against women is common and that sexualizing and objectifying women would contribute to a rape culture. Naw, who needs just like basic knowledge of the situation, we need citations!!!!

I belive they’re not targeting the dancers, but the party organizers who thought something along the lines of “let’s dress up our party by tossing some ‘sexy schoolgirl’ women around the place”. Objectification, women are just here to be decorative, etc? Or something along those lines.

So, I know the eye-rolling for some people is going to start. But let me just say: This was not the time or place for this sort of thing. There could potentially be a time and a place for this sort of thing, but it’s NOT at an event associated with professional endeavors, even in the gaming industry. It’s not okay.…

Sexual violence is incredibly common. Crap like this contributes to that.