I'm in rural Alabama. I went from a virulent, in-your-face racist as a child. Yes, I was a racist child, who consistently spewed the most vile white supremacist shit at fellow children. Each idea, each word of hate, had been spoon-fed to me from a young age.

They object to sex. Unless it is sex had between two straight, married people, it is wrong. Sinful, evil, whatever you want to call it. That's what I was taught growing up, and I didn't even (at the time) think my church was all that conservative. This is super-redundant, I know, but that's often what the teaching is:…

Indeed. I have a Steam rating of 10 on my profile there, although what I've been playing lately is Civ V (omg new expansion!) and Dust: An Elysian Tail (possibly the best game I've ever played). I absolutely hate the, "Well, women will play our games even if we treat them like shit" argument. It shouldn't be…

Thanks for your insight...Sounds like gaming is a vicious cycle of alienating women, thus turning women off to these jobs, which results in an undersupply of women in this industry, which results in this lack of gender-inclusiveness in video games. Le siiiigh...

"Actively alienate" would've been a much better way of phrasing it! Also, as someone who works in the biz, do you feel you have any ability to effect positive change in terms of being more gender-inclusive? I'd think hiring more women in the field and doing market research regarding what women would like to see…

I don't work in the game industry, but I do work in tech. I'm tired of being told which games "girls" play. I've been playing video games since my sister's VIC-20 and my own Commodore 64. My mother and I used to play Diablo on the first iteration of battle.net. She had more Diablo kills than I did.

Pfft. No one with a vagina games. Everyone knows that.

I also thank you.

Ding ding ding. We have a comment winner. Health/safety is absolutely a red herring. It's like organics and whether or not they contain more nutrients. That's not the point! The point is that our food system is indeed a "system" of soil, microorganisms, insects, and other plants. This system relies on genetic…

THANK YOU. When I read this last night I had about half an hour to get to bed unless I wanted to be a zombie at work today, so I wasn't able to form a particularly cohesive reply. But I took great offense to the snarky, oversimplified tone of this article and I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing GMOs for what they are.

THANK YOU for that sensible comment and for bringing up round-up and biodiversity, for a moment I thought my head was going to explode out of sheer rage over all this nonsense "being anti-gmo is being anti-scientific" bullshit.