If you’re able to recognize that somebody else’s experience might not match your own, why is it so hard to believe that a racial group you aren’t a part of faces, on average, a very different experience than yourself? You’re being stubborn for reasons I don’t understand.

Hurray. You thoughtlessly bought into a system of harmful, bullshit machismo based on humiliation and douchery, but you recognized the basic humanity of a black guy. You’re a national hero.

Announcing that people will call you an asshole doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole, it just means you're an asshole with insecurities.

Mark Kozelek’s other stuff is also awesome. He did an album of Modest Mouse covers in the same low key style that’s pretty amazing, but Ghosts of the Great Highway is what really made me fall in love.

I'm glad you wrote this, and I'd love to see you get more confrontational on some of the subject matter you focus on.

Well, for one, her physicality does exist. This is some of the same flawed thinking that drives these problems. Women come in all shapes and sizes, though you'd be hard pressed to prove that in the history of video games.

I would be no joke thrilled if you want to make a go at explaining it to me. I'll try my best to keep up.

I would suggest that choosing to interact with this creepy, obstinate, mammary obsessed and poorly designed robot might be an example of experience going wrong.

I did! It's not immediately apparent you did, however. The points of contrast given are that the women were opposed to hyper absurd jiggle physics designed for teenage boys and their adult cohorts of a similar mindset, and were likewise opposed to attempting to present a woman's body as a static puppet.

Seriously. Guy brushes up against something meaningful and then just runs right the fuck past it.

It's not at all damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's damned if you do it in a stupid ridiculous way that caters to make fetishizing or damned if you don't bother to consider the realities of a woman's body at all in attempting to create a female character.

I wish the article was a little more overtly aggressive to certain ridiculous ideas, but the subject is actually a pretty interesting one. The notion that you need to run your female characters past a test group of women because there are none in your studio seems particularly damning.

"People like the movement of breasts, that's a hard-wired thing in our heads," Alex said.

There are weird situations like my town where the college is notoriously awful in how they handle sexual assault and rape cases (no advocates allowed during initial interviews with the victim, a criminally underfunded sexual assault prevention/counseling department, incidents where the victim has been pressured into…

And I doubt most of those women had transitioned before they were into their late teens, or later. I don't doubt they experienced ostracism, but gaming has always been welcoming for a very specific subset of ostracized people. That subset has rarely included those who were identified in their youth (or adulthood,…

The high percentage of men in gaming has far less to do with arguable science (don't trust anything that uses the phrase hardwired in a biological sense. Like, ever.) and far more to do with the fact that the community is disgustingly unwelcoming, especially within the competitive spheres. This shit isn't biological,…

It is a pity that you don't seem to understand or want to understand the things which you talk about.

Apologies: Double post because of evil misandrists, probably.

Holy shit, is the the trip back? Has misandry finally become recognized as a bullshit word in enough places that Man Hating Feminist is in vogue again?