So, I had written something about this a while ago, stating that a good character is a good character, regardless of their gender. I received at least one outraged reply that having what equated to a "gender neutral" character was abhorrent, because it wasn't telling a woman's story. So...dunno...that approach seems…

To be fair, Hera was a bitch, and Aphrodite was pretty awful (cheating on your crippled husband, you classy hussy). Also, that whole starting the Trojan War by proxy thing. Artemis turned a dude into a stag because he saw her naked. The female gods were not great "people."

Then I am appropriating something that is mine? How does that even work? And it's HOLMES. At least use it correctly.

Does it make you as sad as (poorly) appropriating MA street slang?

Well, the latter, since the former isn't a...word? Unless you meant "holmes" but I grew up in a place where that wasn't used ironically, guero.

To avoid accusations of sexism, misogyny, male gaze, rape, etc. Better to have bad anatomy than...BAD anatomy, knamean?

Wow...you are the first person outside of Tumblr that I've actually seen use that...That's amazing. Sad. But amazing.

Oh, I want to post this picture that my female friend drew of Pyramid Head and one of his...ahem...captives...and it's edited so nothing is showing, but I don't know how close I can toe this particular line...

Ah, okay, the native people of Canada. I didn't know who it was referencing.

Hmmm...I think that the smaller a population is, the more isolated it is, the more it is likely to be backward. The maternal side of my family is all hillbillies from Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Same kinda thing you talk about. Not the kind of people who are used to seeing someone who is non-white. I got…

Ha! You basically described Texas! Not all of Texas, mind, Austin and Houston are supposedly pretty cool, but I grew up in East Texas in the 80s so...yeah. All swamps and rednecks, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, the joy of that particular area was, it wasn't just women, it was everyone who wasn't a white,…

Here's a question: In the past, I've been called a nigger, coon, spook, whatever. Pejoratives relating to my racial background. Am I to allow someone else's opinion of me change my perception of myself, based on their say so? Because of the way one, or hell, many people, view me as nothing more than a collection of…

And that's why I think your way of thinking is backward and totally one-sided. It's not about what the customers thought. She did it for herself. The fact that she made very decent money at it meant she did it well. It was effort, creativity, and dedication.

To further illustrate this point: How much…

My wife was a pole dancer for about five years. She was one of the few girls who actually worked the pole. It was art. She worked at it, sweated, choreographed. There is effort in it, just as there was effort in her nudes she shot for college. She looked for and found beauty in sexy, gave it meaning and context,…

Or he could, you know, find them beautiful, admirable, lacking in things he, himself, does not have.

Or he could view them as not equals. I'm sure yours is more valid, however.

Rockabilly Bayonetta? Fuck to tha yeah.

Wait, what? I played the ever-livin' crap outta Drakengard, but I don't see the connection to the Nier. Now I feel left out.

Not the terrible lisp?

No trigger discipline. 0/10

I'm not speaking of within the industry, and let's face it, the total people within the industry is a small percentage of the overall, I'm talking all the people that are invested in this. There are often open hostilities on both sides, both sides have parties within that treat people are idiots, villains, or as…