Weird, when I watch or play a scene that sexually abuses women I just get ill and want to turn off the media and not interact with it any further.

I agree - while I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, in general if I don't have plenty of warning it's coming scenes of sexual violence have a very negative effect on me. Not like the games seem to want, like being angry and wanting to get revenge, but just wanting to turn whatever it is off and not interact with it…

When the show isn't about rape in particular like SVU, people complaining when rape is in there is a thing. I just pointed out the Downton Abbey controversy in another post (spoilers for season 4 if you care about that kind of thing), when a character was raped and there were tons of complaints. Unless you're going…

There are very specific rules about TV shows - have you ever noticed how in the original Law & Order, the show often starts with the crime, while in Law & Order SVU, it almost always starts with the someone discovering the victim or the victim's body? Because you're allowed to talk about and refer to rape, but not…

It's probably because i'm involved in the game industry, but i do feel as a woman an enormous pressure to not be stereotypically feminine. maybe i'm imagining parts of it.

There is no difference between "Life is too short to stop enjoying work due to moral implications of enjoying that work" and "Life is too short for certain morals." None. Nothing. Any argument as to the difference is just justification of your refusal to consider your stance from a moral perspective because "life's…

I think we read that a bit differently - you read it as she intentionally did it to teach her kid a lesson, but I definitely read it as she learned that lesson herself when that happened and without that experience she wouldn't have been capable of teaching that lesson because she didn't know it.

There's a difference between saying "I still appreciate his work and, after thoughtful consideration of my moral code, decided that I feel it's justifiable due to this reasoning" and "I like his work and don't want to think about whether or not it's problematic because life's too short to think about silly things like …

You're saying the same thing, no matter how you try to cut it. It's the same excuse people make for passively enabling sexism, racism, homophobia, and all other kinds of marginalization - life's too short to think about what you say, even if it's morally repugnant! How dare someone ask you to put a thought in your…

It makes a big difference - you are capable of separating the artist from the art in that case because by supporting the art you aren't inherently supporting the artist, because the artist can no longer be supported because he's dead. It's very straightforward. It's morally wrong to me to give money to a man that…

Since I live in the Bay Area, live with a tech worker boyfriend, work in tech and have friends at many companies like Github, I'm very familiar with the standard of behavior for tech companies and the kind of young men who work at tech companies.

How do you reconcile the knowledge that by supporting those movies, you are financially supporting someone you see as vile? Even if you pirate them and talk about how great they are (like you're doing here), you are supporting them in giving them good press, contributing to others spending money on them and giving…

Sexism is not a natural order of the world like drowning in water. You must think very little of men to think that otherwise acceptable, accomplished men are incapable of changing sexist ways in the same way that water is incapable of changing its tendency to drown humans.

No, that's not how this works. You may need to actually create the image in your head of a camel holding a bunch of straw (or, to remove the metaphor, bearing all the sexism at Github) to actually understand the metaphor - it's the pile of shit from this particular thing that caused her to snap at this job, set off by…

A tech office. The fact that people are just glossing over what the company is is hilarious. These are companies with literal slides in their offices. Here are some pictures of Github's office in particular:

It's a tech company. They have slides and shit in the office.

I strongly disagree - there are multiple kinds of safety. There's physical safety, which everyone in this thread seems to be fixating on, and then there's emotional safety, mental safety, etc. It was unsafe in the sense that the women couldn't even do something that they enjoy and that would probably be no issue for…

Do you know what the phrase "the straw that broke the camel's back" means? This is a textbook example of one. I know nowadays it's used to just talk about the thing that finally set you off, no matter how big and "reasonable" that thing is to get set off about, but the original meaning of the word is one tiny thing…

I do think that's a good point - if I had tried to imitate what those women were doing, even as a woman myself, I would have looked weird and awkward and it probably would have made people uncomfortable to watch.

If you're too lazy to skim your eyes across words on a page, I really can't help you.