I usually am ok with your advice Doc but it’s weird to read after just having a run in with my abuser, who I dated when I was 18 and he was 31. I’m a smart girl, have always been attracted to older men, and sure *felt* adult then, but that got greatly taken advantage of. 20 isn’t much older than 18, especially if…

Hentai has been freeing/healing/healthy for my sexuality in a way other porn was never able to be. Those non-ideal situations can be a good space to experience whatever transgressive things I find hot, if that makes sense. I’m just one girl though.

I have JJBA to thank for two of my best friendships - one probably the best of my life, which is pretty jojo.

look I honestly trust hentai fans more (and am one...but...yeah) and have generally felt safer and more respected fucking otaku than non otaku

For every time this show has been extremely dumb, it’s sparked some great discussions about sexual agency, gender roles in sex, connection, etc. and I sincerely look forward to it every week.

lol I wasn’t upset when I typed that out but ok

Even if the things teenage girls like get a lot of exposure, they’re still treated, as a demographic, as vacuous and unworthy of credit for their interior lives. They may be allowed to be enthusiastic but the media that covers their enthusiasm tends to be dismissive.

I’m always shocked at fandom articles and how apparently a huge swath of commenters on a video game website have never engaged with fandom/fan work and claim to not understand it.

Except shipping as a fandom term dates back to the 90s, meaning the vast majority of OG shippers are at least in their 30s if not older now. As a concept of making fan works that pair characters, esp. same sex characters, it goes back to the 70s so...

I don’t know what it is...I watched it as a stupid 15 year old and kind of liked it, just kept watching it at least once every year, and now I’m a 26 year old who gets Emotional at the very mention of it.

But it won’t have 90s era Daniel Day-Lewis, Wino, and Michelle Pfeiffer so eh

The focus on fashion and youth culture vibes in Splatoon is kind of touching to me considering that in the past few years, so many of the major street fashion magazines like Zipper, FRUiTS, and KERA stopped printing.

I think disliking or hating her is a common reaction, but I do like that her character is a great example of how sometimes cruel people are just cruel and it’s not explained by a tragic backstory. Her compulsive meanness was compelling in its own way.

Without my brothers, I don’t know if I would ever have developed an interest in video games. For one, I wouldn’t have had anyone else to play with, and also because when I was younger, there weren’t many girls my age who were interested in video games.

This always baffles me because like...were you thinking of fucking white supremacists before??

This is so beautiful, Gita. You’re dad is a hero, but you’re also a positive force in many people’s lives.

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Even if some Kotaku staffers were in on the knowledge that he was creepy (and I mean, one staffer WAS creeped on), it’s hard to just report based on that. It’s almost like a celebrity blind item at that stage. From my understanding from people in the games, anime, and podcast circuit, this was a painful experience…

I doubt you want to get into a long conversation about this so I’m happy to leave you be after this comment, but there are so many reasons why people choose not to just tell someone to go away, or even to come forward. When I was younger, I was seriously sexually and verbally abused, and in the moment it was least…

I’m not even talking about Polygon. I’m talking about people who were close to him, dated him, etc. Or people from other companies that made popular collaborations with him. They’re not gaining anything here.