Yeah, that's not what I'm saying at all but alright. You're trying to justify people not being up to your standards by saying that they probably weren't great to begin with, but that gives so little room for personal growth and is just kind of a downer thought. Like if someone is being legit mean, that's what I'm…

I feel like it's obtuse to not admit to the existence of feminists who maybe are toxic people and do derail the conversation with their own hangups and biases. Yea, you can argue that they're not true feminists, but they present themselves as such in the world and thus are inevitably part of the conversation.

I'm not talking about polite, rational, and logical points. So, if that's what you feel honest is, we're on the same page.

This so much, I feel like when... especially vocal and negative conversations between some feminists and those they feel aren't hitting the right tone or exactly the right idea, it alienates them, and turns those who could be very thoughtful, empathetic allies, into enemies.

While I do tend to agree with your point, this is also the reason why we never seem to get anywhere. Someone does something that doesn't quite fall in line with someone else's ideology and they tear it apart, because it didn't cover all the bases or it didn't prioritize a certain issue or whatnot.

I think it's interesting how you feel feminism is trying to dumb down games, even though developers by and large agree with these sentiments. In fact most of them feel like they're making games smarter.

Hate to break it to you, but most legit game companies actually want to incorporate much of the... "sjw" agenda.

Ever tried running without a good sports bra and boobs? Yea it might make the ligaments stronger but at what cost, that shit hurts dood.

I assume she probably you know, discussed it with her team and came to this decision, if members of her team wants to attend as a participant, I'm sure she's not going to stop them.

I fucking hate how everyone's a photoshop expert now. It's like anytime they need an excuse for anything "it's shopped."

Whether or not critics "prove their case" is up to the person looking at the information, and a whole lot of criticism aimed at Sarkeesian, is in fact also misogynist. It really is, it'd be obtuse not to admit so. While I'm sure there's been inaccuracies in her presentations, and I'm sure I probably don't agree with…

Um, no. Intellectual dishonesty of bad criticism? You do know what criticism is right? It's an opinion. You can't stop a person from having an opinion, you have opinions obviously, and while I disagree strenuously with what you say, I'm not about to try and stop you from saying it. We're not talking about analytic…

England has a no ransom policy also, so screwed even if you're British.

I mean, how well do you expect girls in school to take situation, it was par for the course. And most of them weren't even mean, just flight reflex and all that jazz.

No, media doesn't have to represent everyone, this is true, but maybe just once try and empathize with those who ask for representation. There are male and female players who actually like to use female avatars and playable characters. They exist, they're entitled to love Final Fantasy, they're entitled to feel…

Yea, I'm gonna have to disagree on this one, this was a truly worrisome event and has set some disgusting precedents... It's not even about the movie and whether or not it's shit.

Lol, well for that time period and mindset, from all accounts they were being treated better. I mean, not by a longshot for our modern mindset, but again, context.

I mean, there isn't much evidence either way so it's mostly just perception anyways. She did in fact, ban rape in her code of ethics, forced marriages not withstanding (which was already the norm at the time and considered ethical at the time.) There's other research that states female captives were let go as a…

Context is pretty important, women in that time period in China generally had no choice who to marry, whether sold to a pirate or not, generally speaking arranged marriages were the norm anyways, oftentimes families selling younger daughters to rich men with dozens of wives. Doesn't make it any less gross according to…

From what I understand, female captives were let go generally, the prettiest ones forced into marriages with pirates. The bit about the hold is about consensual sex, if a pirate was discovered having consensual sex with a captive (without permission of general) he was beheaded, and the woman would have cannonballs…