TL;DR - Two writers in a ‘shocking’ account of cisgender male privilege and entitlement vis-à-vis sex and treatment of women.

Why they get rewarded for this, I do not know—

Oh wait, I do know: patriarchy rewards those who perpetuate/propagate it and who stand to/continue to benefit most from it.

It would be ridiculous if…

Well, considering how long it takes to find a match in the early morning, and how empty the worlds are when I go on patrol... it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Activision refuses to show actual numbers.

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to invest in a wired controller for 360. ;P

How sweet: two Vulcans gaming. Or maybe Orions?

It can also be internalized racism, because Western society is very white supremacist in terms of how Asian men are emasculated and desexualized while Asian women are fetishized and exoticized. Especially because there is very little reach of Asian entertainment in the West (save perhaps for anime, which similarly…

I know what you mean (about not fighting back, or at least saying something) but don’t punish yourself. I just talk shit now online, at 40, to make up for all the times I didn’t when I was younger. ;)

/the formerly quiet, ‘nice’ Asian kid

Gah, Hipster racism. :(

Yeah, I wouldn’t even bother shedding crocodile tears, to be honest.

:(

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…