It’s a constant and ongoing discussion amongst Asian Americans, about taking back the power from racial stereotypes by mocking them. In the same way, as others have pointed out, self-deprecating humour is about skewering the stereotypes themselves.

That being said, as an Asian (North) American, I agree that this sort…

I disagree that “[f]at can be fixed”, or even that it needs to be. Not everyone has the same body type and genetic differences result in differing ways in which individuals store body fat, and for many people, they were born that way. For others, it may be part of a clinical condition or other medical issues, or from…

I’m Asian (North) American, and I didn’t get the impression that that was what Zolin was trying to say/do. Rather, I thought they were trying to use their own experience with certain intersectional forms of oppression to in some way relate it to anti-Asian racism that Asian Americans have and continue to experience,…

Ewww... were the panel judges ephebophiles? Pretty sure L7 would tell these judges where they can shove their “sultriness”.

But good to see these girls rock out with their Docs out. :)

I find the comments confusing rape-by-deception and transgender persons to be disturbingly ignorant. Regardless of how foolish and dangerous the alleged victim may have been, the fact remains no one deserves to have this done to them and have that trust abused in that manner.

And certainly, it has absolutely nothing to…

I’m disappointed that Alexie let this poem slip past, as there are plenty of other Asian American writers who can clearly write much better stuff than that, that there is zero justification to give this poem more weight than it deserves.

And having read it, as an Asian Canadian poet, I can safely say that however…

I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.
Oh, and interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the humanity of the poet’s compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate…

I would add that shit like this is why I tend to avoid JRPGs, and many Japanese games in general, as well as a lot of anime. And I say that as someone who is both ethnically Japanese and was born in Japan. ;P

Japan’s is a very sexist and patriarchal culture, though, so I’m not sure what your point is. Just because something is of a different culture doesn’t magically make everything that happens in it good or acceptable or that it can’t be judged objectively in terms of women’s rights.

You’re also falsely equating…

Worst excuse for fan service-y pandering character design choices... evar. :P

It’s not like they started off with the parasite concept and worked from there to figure out the ramifications and implications of it in terms of character design: they clearly went with the ‘we need scantily-clad women in this game’ and…

“Is Shin Malphur still alive, and does he mind that so many random scrubs are casually wearing clones of his master’s fabled weapon?”

I loled. :)

Dismissed!

Bleh, teen cis-male hetero wank fantasy as character design.

I didn’t mind most of the animations, _except_ Nathan Fillion, because... well, maybe because I just finished watching a Castle episode a few hours ago so I have a pretty clear idea in my head of what the real Nathan Fillion looks like.

I know what you mean: it’s a problem in CGI in movies as well, and tends to disrupt suspension of disbelief when thousand-ton machines (eg. Transformers) seem to move as if there is no gravity.

Generally true, although I got Thunderlord the other day as top player on winning team in Crucible.

Great that there’s more content, but not a fan of how they’re making Year One gear obsolete. I really feel bad for the Day One/beta players, who are consistently getting screwed over by Bungie with every DLC and update. Honestly, TTK is the game Destiny should have been, if they hadn’t pushed it out when it wasn’t…

There’s cluelessness, and then there’s a total and deliberate willful refusal to accept no as actually meaning no, and part of rape culture is definitely all about blurring the lines regarding persistent pressuring of women to capitulate to the male will, which is a deliberate attempt to encroach upon and ultimately…

Yeah, not a huge Steam fan either. They seriously need more competition so that they actually risk losing customers if they screw up.

Those people have already made up their minds regardless of evidence: they demand proof, yet they will keep shifting the goalposts when reality and facts causes cognitive dissonance.