I do think it is really uncritical to argue that a trend does not need to be acknowledged because it is not as large as everything that is not that trend. It would be akin to saying that because there are more films that are not horrors than there are horror films, horror isn't a genre, just a random unique occurrence.
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I wrote something based on the prompt on my writing blog, so feel free to check it out:

I hope I'm not offending @Kogeaux when I say I think you should see this.

I don't think it (the stress in particular) is rare either - I have always thought that there is a level of dissociation involved; take for example how people typically talk to each other in online matches when you don't know the person on the other end - but I do think the physical violence is rare. I can concede…

So, do you believe that the media first and foremost is the cause, or that it can become catalyzing for people who lack the ability to separate their perspectives?

And I want you to know that I am not at all trying to get into a verbal fistfight over this, if you get the idea that I'm being ignorantly hostile. I just really want the discussion to move away from the subtle notion that video games involve the same mental processes as dissociating oneself from real people. Most of…

I perfectly acknowledge his decision to do this for himself, and that he appreciates that every person has the right to consume whatever they wish to consume. But up until this point he keeps driving the idea home that FPSs and the way that they are played promote the kind of mental state that people who commit those…

Knowing this doesn't make the reader a bad person, is my point.

Dear Kotaku,

^ I like this very much. I wish such a thing happened more often, frankly. I just can't get it out of my head that some of the ideas we have as a society about chivalry are also the only ways that people can glean if men are considerate people, at least in a dating setting, which I think is absolute garbage.

I'm just asking for clarification, not trying to be offensive: on the matter of dating, aren't some of the things that men do in the line of 'chivalry' considered signs that a man is no good if they were reversed? If a woman treats a man to dinner on a date, isn't this interpreted - not only by patriarchal men but by…