Something very similar happened to a childhood friend of mine minus the witness protection program. The husband was with the other woman while my friend was at work and then one day my friend searched for her husband in Facebook and found him “in a relationship” with another woman. His family knew and they never told…

Gate agent burn is always epic! I used to be a flight attendant and witnessed a doozy at DFW Airport, late one night during a monster thunderstorm. Our plane had landed but we were stuck on the ramp for about 2 hours, because so many other planes couldn’t depart due to the storm. When we finally got a gate and…

This is gold. Fed up service industry workers really do have some of the sickest burn skills.

My 16-year-old sister looks a little bit older so she occasionally gets hit on by boys in their early 20s. At one point, this one sorry fellow tried to convince her that “age is just a number,” to which she quickly retorted, “a prison cell is just a room.”

Waiting at the airport for a flight. There’s a line of about 10 people at the counter that were delayed from an earlier flight. Some dude pushes past the line and screams at the desk agent that, “(He) has to be on this flight! And it has to be first class!” Agent tells him that she can help him but he need to wait in…

But it’s not sexism; it’s what story the devs wanted to tell you.

Just because there isn’t sexism in games (which, to be fair, isn’t even really true in the first place) does not mean that there is not sexism in gamer culture.

Patterns of tropes do result in gender imbalances. I’m not alleging that developers intend to be sexist, but the effect is certainly sexist.

Were a lot of people saying video games cause sexism/racism/whatever? Because I don’t think think they were. I always thought it was about video games/gaming communities being full of sexism, regardless of cause. I’m no Anita expert but I always thought her videos were pointing out sexist examples and saying how that…

Longitudinal studies - as this one was - are very helpful. As longitudinal studies (that is, studies done over a prolonged period of time with the same sample) by their very nature take so long, they often carry more weight than other forms of studies. That is their “pro” in their pros and cons list. Most of their…

I would just note that “it’s what story the devs wanted to tell you” is not actually a cover for the existence or non-existence of any particular -ism that may or may not exist in a game.

Being a story that the devs want to tell us doesn’t preclude those stories from being sexist, though. Just like any other media video games are a reflection of the world they are created from, so long as those aspects exist IRL then they can exist in stories.

What to make of it is simple- more evidence that playing games, even those that contain violence, brutality, or expressions of unsavoury societal attitudes (sexism, homophobia etc..) has minimal, if any, impact, on the player, and certainly does nothing to encourage violent or prejudiced tendencies in them.

I forgot to mention the Lana del Ray song! It is the perfect choice.