*yawn*

Freaking double post.

I never said you had to look at every comment on the internet. It's entirely possible to get an aggregate from a variety of sources, define some statistical parameters, and test your hypothesis. Which, by the way, is the exact opposite of what Anita is doing, but whatever. Science? Man's tools!

I never asked for a line-by-line response, I asked you to put some effort into your work instead of deflecting when you can't come up with a pithy reply.

Sigh. Okay, let's begin.

I didn't start out hostile. I really didn't. Go back and read what I said. Unless by hostile you actually mean disagree with you, in which case, yes, I was hostile. But, hey, that's fairly typical for dealing with feminists, so I can't say that I'm awfully surprised.

I've got three nails and a cross for your martyr complex.

Ignorance as defense? Really? For shame.

Well, first you interjected yourself into the conversation I was having, so...I could just ignore you, if you like.

You know, if there was an actual dialogue here, I'd be interested, but your point from the get go was just a statement, "Women get commented on a lot." There was further subtext and, you know, just text that says that it's all menz doing it (it's not, by the way). So...there is nothing to talk about. You are…

She is "often" called a bitch, or accused of being a lesbian. Well, if you say it's often, it must be true. Just for clarification, how often is that, as that's sort of vague? Tuesdays? Would it be every third instance? Does it matter if it's a leap year? You see how terribly inaccurate that is, so I'd like…

I tend to think people believe what they say. Your word wasn't a mistake, it was using a definitive. "...the latter are terribly sensitive..." See it just doesn't smack of a mistake. It's not a single-minded point of view, I just don't trust people in general, particularly people who "correct" themselves without…

Yes, society identifies assertiveness as a male trait, and it's given a positive codifier because of it. Of course, I suppose if we are looking at certain echelons of society where a woman being assertive is considered a negative, that's fine. However, if you want to make that a gross statement about all of society,…

So, Anita is part of the problem? Or the way she identifies certain traits as belonging to certain genders is part of the problem? You should take it up with her, in either case. That's her thing, not mine. You weren't terribly clear on what you were referring to.

I'd be more inclined to believe that if the success of Battlefield 4, Ghosts, and GTA V weren't glaring counterpoints to the idyllic dream of what the market should be vs what it is.

It's too bad I've never met a feminist with anything good to say that wasn't dismissive or outright insulting. Maybe someday.

There's something called, "Writing with the Voice of the Other." That's what I always heard it called, anyway, but it was used to describe writing from a perspective that is alien to your own. This is, as it proves, incredibly hard to do. One, because it's just plain difficult to conceptualize things you have no…

Girls were discouraged from playing video games. That's weird. It must have been largely a personal thing. Maybe parents? Because you can go and look at ads from the 70s and 80s and for things like Atari and Coleco Vision were very neutral. Mostly just the games or the system, and if there were people it was…

So, yeah...like I said, let's actually take a look at the past and determine why there were so few women in games development. I can tell you that from my childhood, there was a grand total of one girl that played games of the dozens of people I knew. So, back in the inception, what was the interest for females in…

I agree with you. And that's why the words "strong female character" automatically say, "I'm a bad writer," to me. This is because no one says, "I'm going to write a story with a strong green-eyed protagonist." No, you aren't. You are going to make a character who sucks that happens to have green eyes, and because…