FFS, you don't get wedding gifts to recoup expenses.

I hope that is it and they didn't photoshop her to "not too black."

I know she's a woman of color. I was wondering if they lightened her in photoshop like too many publications do to Beyonce. I've seen other photos of her, and this looks like it might have been lightened.

I know it's not exclusively a geek thing, but I am pointing out that geek girls are completely forgotten as being women if they aren't conventionally attractive. If they are attractive or later become attractive, they aren't geeks.

Uh, as the former fat girl (lost 70 pounds my junior year), I assure you that we geek girls who were overweight or less than cute were usually not pursued by anyone.

Did they lighten her a little? From the miniature picture, I mistook her for a tan white lady.

I'm into sci fi and some games, but they're games like Harvest Moon and 90s adventure games. Mostly nonviolent.

I think the issue is more that they're dressing him as something roughly equivalent to a stripper or an escort.

It makes sense. Teenage boys are awful, and geek culture has a vocal misogynist component. Women are only women and valuable insofar as some boy wants to screw them. If they're accepted as a geek, they're othered by defining their femininity by whether they're a good sex object, and if men find them attractive,…

If you want to fuck a girl, she is never one of the guys.

I'm not even sure it used to be the province of only men. I remember going to cons as a kid, my parents drug me to cons, and this is really really really a recent trend. Women may have been a minority, but they were vocal.

I am sure if you had a high school of any half decent size, you had a few (not by choice) geek girls.

Is it really common to be so close to one's mom that her friends aren't avoidable?

I believe Casey Kasem objected to Aladdin pretty strongly because one of the lyrics referred to Arab culture as "barbaric." They changed it pretty quick.

Huh. That sounds like an original story and not an adaptation of The Snow Queen at all.

That'd be nice. Passing off a white people's folktale as an Inuit folktale would have been unfortunate for other reasons.

I really doubt they're going to keep the religious aspects, so it won't be super faithful. They'd have to really change the story around to get rid of the rescue of Kai, though.

This does blow.

The, OP, which you were replying to, was about swearing. Don't be insufferable.

Who is defensive? You're the one posting your entire political history to defend your right to dictate to other people how to speak and what makes a good ally. Sorry, no. It's a big fucking tent, and it is slactivism to narrow it to only the parts of it you personally like. Even if you get an editorial on that…