It's not over the moment you get some tiny measurement of alleged growth. In my country (UK), unemployment is still at 7.7% of the working-age population (bearing in mind that the figures have been massaged since the 80s to ignore as many claimants as possible for better headlines), so that's roughly 2.5m in a…
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True, and it's a matter of armies, I suppose, since you need an army for a genocide. Male army leaders have all kinds of justifications for keeping their armies exclusively male (religion, tradition, economic considerations), whereas a woman leading an army must have a specific political desire to make use of female…
It's as if they still don't understand why the Vita didn't catch on in the West, as if everything about the Vita launch was awesome and we just didn't understand. They don't want to give us the new thing, because that's somehow risky, but the old thing was so obviously good that we'll give them the tweaked version and…
I was so surprised that Vita TV wasn't part of a strategy for Europe and the Americas. It seemed like a masterstroke: make a cheap, seemingly new console for the Christmas market, sell more Vita software, and then use its PS4 connectivity as a hook to get those buyers to choose PS over XB in the next gen.
I don't know. There's a level of power just seems very likely to fuck anyone up, regardless of gender. If they're not already nasty on the way up, there's a strong chance that circumstances are going to lead people into doing hideous things.
There was a Tumblr called Hedgehogs That Look Like Martin Freeman, and another called Otters That Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch.
I looked up the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Fairytas
"With the headdress and red eye makeup"
That's not true. Ofcom considers words like "arse" to be mild, and their guidelines allow the use of quite a range of language pre-watershed as long as it's justifiable by the context of the broadcast. "Bastard" would not, and does not, get you fired. It would be impossible for a history programme to discuss the…
That's the one. It's totally disingenuous, and it's embarrassing to see people use it to justify their disproportionate anger about the provisions of special interest celebrations. I feel the same disappointment when people use the Louis CK video about how he said "faggot" as a kid to justify their current homophobia…
Logic is worthless as a tool to describe social constructs without context. I am arguing with people who I suspect believe that these things spontaneously happened out of nowhere: as if white society did not already describe black music as "race music". People here cannot conceive of the importance of James Brown…
If you think Women's History Month is immoral, we are definitely done here. Bye.
It's a good thing the Black Music Awards and the Music Of Black Origin awards aren't racist or segregative, then. Both have been giving awards to non-black performers on a regular basis.
Why should one derive pride from their race? Pretty obviously: as a restorative for the shame that so many people in wider society try and pour on that race, or indeed the efforts to ignore that race altogether. Can you understand why it was important for this child:
Oh God, one of "those". I've explained that over and over in this thread. No, I'm not doing it again.
The name "black music awards" honours a creation of black people, though. It's a matter of pride. There have been white people in hip-hop from the start, and an especially important contribution from Hispanic people, but it's primarily a black creation. People of other cultures have been winning those awards for years…
Well, to me it's all very recent. Take that example of only one black nominee at the 1996 Academy Awards, for instance. I was 21 that year. To me, these changes you've seen are so recent as to be barely significant - they only just happened, in my eyes. So I get a little surprised when I hear people declaring this…
I didn't say it was. I said that there are tons of demographics creating their own awards ceremonies to recognise the people they think should get more attention but would not through the standard channels. I included libertarian sci-fi as an example to make the point that it's not just awards like the BMAs (which,…
See my reply to Blazebow for a few examples. I'm amazed I have to argue this, tbh.