I could've phrased that comment better (the one you last responded to) but when I said they're not comparable, I meant to say something more along the lines of "they're separate issues. Both necessary but not interchangeable." You telling me to shut up about an issue that is related to WOMEN because they did include…

That's not at all what I said. If I emigrated to Japan right now, I'd be in a racial minority. There are racial minorities in every country. They should be represented (fucking duh). However way you slice it, whichever period you visit, you're going to encounter women too. Not representing 50% of the population (in…

I was actually talking about how you can't compare diversity (racial, sexual minorities) and an entire gender that populates half of the world. So yeah, I'm stressing that out of seven games there are 6 male protags. I'm not going to change my view on that because they've played around with ethnicities. And I…

They had one female MC, in a spin-off. Out of seven games. You expect people to be eternally grateful because they acknowledged women's existence once?

Welcome to a world where it is normal that companies dismiss just over half of the entire population and have idiots defend them by comparing the possible representation of an entire gender with including ultimately much smaller racial or sexuality-based minorities, or "hermaphrodites".

She wanted to buy child headphones so her kid wouldn't annoy other passengers on their plane ride with his iPad. If she didn't want to buy them, some of the commenters here would be chomping at the bit to criticize her parenting skills because she didn't tranquilize him beforehand.

Have you read one fucking word of what I said? I AM AGAINST ANY STATE-SANCTIONED LAWS FORCING WOMEN TO VEIL OR DE-VEIL. I just can't grasp why the mere existence of laws in Germany or Canada (where these laws are quite narrow in their specifications compared to Iran's, mind you) should prevent one from talking about…

You're missing the point entirely and making a false equivalence between some European countries with specific, narrow but definitely restrictive laws and a fucking Islamic "Republic" that takes away that freedom from women entirely (whether it be through mandatory veiling and/or dozens of other means). You're coming…

Edit: Nvm, I could suddenly edit my previous comment again. Kinja is weird.

Please note that the countries with hijab "ban" laws you listed are exclusively focused on public schools and sometimes workers in public spaces. This is also applied to Burqas. Not saying that it is right, but it is absolutely not comparable to being forced by national law to wear a hijab everywhere, all the time,…

Exactly. There's a reason it's been proven time and again that men who are married live longer on average than men who are not, while it is the opposite for women.

The very concept of this entire business, combined with the creepy "We just got married!" and/or "You are mine!" poses, the hopelessness or downright misery in all of the girls' eyes, the fact that most of the fathers are not even looking at the camera but staring at their daughter almost longingly, the wasteland…

A lot of the comments on this insightful article are full of disgusting rape culture-apologia and utterly vile misogynistic BS. Was this crossposted to Gawker, Deadspin and/or Kotaku or something?

Actually the mass rape of women and girls is recognized by International law, historians, psychologists and human rights groups as an extremely-commonly-used weapon of war and genocide, deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives, smartass. This is when one doesn't even include the sex…

That was indeed so surreal and preposterous I still can't comprehend the delusion and cognitive dissonance there.

Wow, nice, productive reply. Note that after the first paragraph, I was talking about kneejerk reactions I've seen in GENERAL (on this blog, too) and not you personally. I didn't deny that the EU has serious racial issues. I think you were obviously not denying that the US has serious racial problems either. You…

Ah, somehow I lost a couple of words there.

Wait, she talked to three Neo-Nazi Germans in a rally and three KKK members and you've figured out who the most "compassionate" racists are? What kind of mental gymnastics does one have to perform to extrapolate these four-second snippets to analyze entire countries?

Uh, no. He literally expressed his wish to see all women be put in concentration camps and have them starve to death with him watching, from his tower, and to only "keep" a few for reproduction purposes so that most boys/men could grow up not ever knowing about women's very existence.

I really don't get that, apparently, whatever your background, any criticism of the blatant oppression of women and the trampling human rights in the name of "religious freedom" that is going on in so many Islamic communities (which is systemic in other religions too, that goes without saying) is seen as somehow part…