I didn't realize there was so much 'incest play' stuff in Japanese porn until a friend of mine told me about how incest is a popular feature in Japanese anime as well. Being Japanese but not having grown up around anime (or indeed porn) culture in Japan (which I guess is technically a marginal group even within…

It depends on whether people are conflating culture with ethnicity. They're inter-related but not interchangeable. Also, as someone else pointed out, India (like China) is a huge country, with a lot of different people, and arguably there isn't a monolithic Indian culture (maybe a popular culture like Bollywood).

That…

My sister should join that tumblr. *sigh*

Not that other cultures, ethnicities, nationalities don't sexually fetishize others, but I'm sure there's a less objectifying and certainly less creepy way that can emerge.

In the end, it tends to boil down to a lack of respect for women, regardless of anyone's ethnicity. …

I think certain cultures tend to have more of a problem with treatment of women than others, but not because of their ethnicity (as someone else pointed out above). However, it seems disingenuous to ignore the fact that ethnicity and culture (and geopolitics, etc.) all intersect, but it does behoove people to be…

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Okay, that's definitely messed up. I mean, not that webcam hacking isn't, but it's not _quite_ the same when some stranger is actually literally in your backyard. :(

You don't like Wikipedia?

Good point: I don't even like spectator sports and I've witnessed the most ridiculously obnoxious and sometimes scary behaviour from some sports fans. What few games I casually follow, I'm not really comfortable about wearing their jerseys in public because in some places, it's grounds for getting assaulted.

Wow, that's scary: webcam hacking?

I think too that people act differently amongst 'their own kind' so to speak, than they would if they were amongst total strangers/people not of their field.

I'm certain I'm much more voluble online, and more gregarious too, but at a party where I don't know anyone, I find my social anxiety kicks in, and I'll often…

Well, BBSing probably had its own issues, even though there was a moderator/sysop. I never got into it even though I had a 300 baud modem back then because, well, 300 baud modem says it all. ;)

But certainly community policing has its ups and downs as well, because it can lead to community bullying, as I've seen…

Oh yeah, or even on Facebook itself, on certain political sites with a Facebook page. I seriously would not believe how ignorant some people are about how easily someone like an employer could find said person's hate speech online on Facebook... except you could tell by the person's ignorant comment that that person…

I agree. There's value in the views of people who actually play the games, not just make them. There is _so much_ in video games what weren't intended by the designers, programmers, etc. but were discovered by players and have since been incorporated into games (if they weren't simply bugs that needed to be coded…

I used to be that way, but it makes Team DeathMatch so much easier to have a headset. Not _as much_ of a problem in a game like Ghosts which thoughtfully included a way for your 'toon to call out where they saw an enemy/got killed without needing a player to do it and risk having their nasally voice made fun of, but…

Thanks, I'll definitely have to check that book out. :)

I'm very much interested in human sex differences and any biological underpinnings, which really started when I first watched a documentary about intersex people (http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/S…)
as well as our society's trans*phobia and how the world really is…

I didn't think that's what Maximinus was saying: merely that there are political implications of dating partners, and that it behooves people to consciously understand the ramifications of the choices they make, _not_ that they _have_ to make certain choices.

But I did up-star your comment as anecdotal evidence (which…

I don't think that's a fair criticism in an online discussion, since none of us here are writing doctoral dissertations.

On the one hand, it is fair to ask for one's sources because there may be unknown biases which may invalidate said sources, but on the other hand, we all have access to Google so we can all…

I think there are political implications which make people resistant to some such theories, which I understand, but in the end, I think it would be helpful in dealing with societal issues like sexual assault if we could find some sociobiological underpinnings if they exist.

Hypothetically speaking, if men _were_ biologically more inclined to rape, then wouldn't we as a society have an obligation to discover said fact, so as to be able to control for it and ameliorate such effects in men by socializing them differently?

I think regardless of the political ramifications of such a discovery,…

I would say that there are more people who have misinterpreted evolutionary psychology than there are those who have actually read it.

I mean, I've never read any, but I'm familiar with the reasoning and I think there's a certain amount of truth to some of it, but it's certainly not any kind of catch-all explanation…