And all I got in my Happy Meal was some gender biased toy options
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I think it's just a case of the commentariat being more accepting of non-monogamous relationships than necessarily being more open and accepting in general. Plenty of articles where the comment gallery throws a shit fit over the idea of broader female characterization in video games or decides that a male journalist…
They're like the perfect conscience shoulder angels!
Obama: "How do I feel about this top?"
*poof!* Shoulder Angel Bohner: "It's too young for you. No."
*poof!* Shoulder Angel Biden: "Get it, girl!!!!!"
Obama: I'M GETTING IT.
Always listen to Shoulder Angel Biden.
You find the reality of women incomprehensible? Sounds like maybe you shouldn't be participating in this discussion then.
Don't think we're all like that. It's only the sort of man who would approach you in that sort of context who would be shitty about being told to back off.
"You are talking about an EXTREME TINY MINORITY OF MEN"
When Kotaku reported on one of the lead guys working on the Oculus Rift died after getting hit by a car, did you think to yourself "Look at Kotaku, suggesting that the gaming industry is being targeted by drivers, car fatalities happen everywhere!"?
Might be the most condescending post ever.
1) being mean to awful people is morally superior to being nice to them. Someone brave enough to talk smack to Hitler's face is a better person than Eichmann.
2) read the excellent linked article "On Smarm" for an expansion on why our cultural value of "being nice above all else" is total smarmy horse shit.
It's a matter of all of those things. It's also money.
There is so much research into how to sell a product, so people will buy that product without thinking about it. Yet when people fat shame, all they can say is no one put that food in your mouth.
Im a man, and i gotta say one thing i dont get is when a girl leaves a guy and the dude goes psycho stalker... normally with horrible results.
Its crazy! If a girl broke up with me id be bummed out (if i thought everything was good) but the last thing on my mind would be to stalk!
Id play my xbox or something in a mopey…
I semi-recently broke up with my ex-boyfriend (a break up that was a long time coming). When I finally decided to end it once and for all, I got all of my things from his apartment he wouldn't even talk to me and he didn't seem to care. Weeks go by without me hearing so much as a peep from him. Then I start getting…
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The "creepy white guys" tumblr blog has got a lot of good examples of harrassment
I feel kind of weird now because I don't have any creeper or harassment stories. Maybe I'm just not visibly female enough online? (Don't get me wrong, I am in no way complaining about this.)
I always advise any of my friends dealing with these kinds of issues to keep a record of everything in case it gets to level where law enforcement can become involved. I also forward the link to Safehorizon.org . There are lot of really good resources there for domestic violence and stalking victims.
Not my own, but one of the founders of Rooster Teeth (Burnie, maybe?) once noted that his first internet venture (in which he would pen open letters criticizing poorly designed websites and then put up a petition for the IP holder to take the website down) ended when a recipient of that treatment send an email…
My so called friends from High School sent me death threats and my girl friend rape threats for posting some Mohammed Joke on Face Book.
The devil doesn't need any god damn advocates. Nor does he need irritating provocations done in his name. I think this "devil's advocate" bullshit is just the most disingenuous way to be offensive while trying to avoid blowback.