Sorry, are you still defending people who make death and rape threats against female feminists while talking about other people "viewing this issue with any degree of fanaticism"? Before you say "I'm not defending people who make death and rape threats", please remember that you just keep bringing up all the various…

I wish I could star your post more than once. Kudos! :)

Heh, all the female gamers I play CoD: MW3/BLOPS2/Ghosts with and against on XBL would disagree with you. And a large number of them kick ass and take names (they frequently beat me, and while I'm not amazing or anything, I'm not absolutely terrible all the time, and even went 21-1 once while running and gunning),…

No, it's the sense of entitlement that comes from expecting others to do all the heavy lifting for independent research, verification and critical analysis required for a topic they supposedly care about enough to write a long comment on it on a website comments thread, when the facts are readily available at one's…

But the real question is, do you have a YouTube video where you show step-by-step how you folded your tinfoil hat into the shape of a fedora? Because that's almost as impressive as your physics-defying bending over backwards attempts at grasping for straws to build straw men with.

I agree. That's why I don't buy the "don't feed the trolls" argument: even if a troll's mind can't be changed (one might argue whether they have a mind at all), it's for the benefit of fence-sitters and people who don't know any better, who may well get roped into the demagoguery of professional trolls if their…

Yeah, almost all my cartoonist friends are female, and it's not like I made friends with them because they were female cartoonists (I didn't even know until recently that most of them did cartoons).

I did not know this about Sean Penn. That's scary. :( I thought he only reserved his violence for paparazzi. And yes, I agree: I think there's a certain element of misogyny in the Heigl-hate, because the things I read about what she says, they sound pretty reasonable to me. And I watched _Knocked Up_ again and…

Damn, now I have to see this.

Her trans*phobic (among other) comments (http://yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/post/456613266…) are what killed my opinion of her, unfortunately. That being said, I feel badly for her because of the iCloud hack. I just hope Seth MacFarlane doesn't include her in a sequel to his "We Saw Your Boobs" song. :(

I felt Heigl had legitimate criticisms about _Knocked Up_, so I am curious what issues she had with the writing on _Grey's Anatomy_. Everyone remembers her for her unceremonious exit from the show, but no one remembers she was one of the first to stand up for T.R. Knight after Isaiah Washington's on-set homophobic…

I agree. It's also a way to undermine serious game journalism by blurring the lines between YouTube reviewer and YouTube advertiser, and in the process, also serves to bribe desperate YouTube gamers for very cheap. If a triple-A game publisher is going to bribe me to write a glowing review for their game, I would…

They're just waiting for a female gamer to do it, so they can sum up their collective faux-outrage and go on another doxxing/criminal threatening spree in order to silence her. And then, of course, claim it's all in the name of journalistic integrity. :P

Heh, that's what I was thinking.

It's not a "moment of weakness" to succumb to a terminal mental illness which caused such pain, suffering and suicidal ideation where the only solace and respite was to end one's life. Also, he's being "rewarded" for a lifetime service of bringing laughter and joy to millions, including to fans of the Zelda franchise.

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Yeah I posited that theory a while back on some other site as well. I find that an analysis of her behaviour seems to bear that out, if one knows what to look for. I think it's also because Asperger's, at least the milder forms/higher functioning autism spectrum present very differently in women than in men, so at…

Yeah, but Yahoo! is/was in a very tight position at that point, and Mayer was in a dead-end at Google. Despite being the first female engineer (and one of the earliest Google hires) she only made it to VP of non-integral departments, so I wouldn't be surprised if she felt she'd hit the glass ceiling there. …

I dunno, some of my best friends are geeks/nerds and I met most of them first on an online text-only multiplayer roleplaying game... where we all felt more comfortable communicating than we did in person. Not that we didn't meet up in person eventually, but for some of us it was the first time we'd left the house in…

This is why I'm more inclined to go with my theory that Marissa Mayer is Aspie, or at least lies somewhere on the autism spectrum. You don't make it to the cover of IEEE's Spectrum magazine unless you're a full-time geek, and she's got geek credentials a-plenty. The fact that she also fits conventional models of…

As an atheist, I would have to say it's... because it's relevant to the topic at hand, which is about singing in Christian churches...?