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I'm supplying actual arguments. You're tossing ad hominems and no arguments. Your behavior marks you as the troll. Physician, heal thyself.

Ah - the ad hominems a person that lacks a cohesive argument. How rare and special it is... Since you appear unaware of writing conventions, I'll deign to educate...

YOINK!

There is just something viscerally appealing when you watch a person who truly is enjoying what they're doing. It doesn't matter what they're even doing. It just matters that they love it. This guy is a good example of that. He's just a guy sitting in a chair watching a 'partly' interactive movie, but he's just so

Yeah the people making threats are pinheads. Stooping to that kind of garbage means they're either troglodytes, or they're too stupid to make an intellectual argument. There is plenty of ways to dismember Sarkeesian's arguments without that sort of drivel.

I approve.

Pht. This clickbait again? Look - people - it's really simple...

I read it - and accurately analyzed it. You just don't like what I had to say. :) For example...

"I'm not sure how the hell you got the idea that I was saying we should do things just because they're hard."

Maybe it was the part where you said...

"So since it isn't easy we shouldn't do it? Ridiculous."

That's a more fair argument than what Sarkeesian presents. Her video is not making those kinds of suggestions. She's saying, "This is bad and needs to stop" while not supplying a realistic alternative, and also while ignoring or minimizing other information that contradicts her posit.

For example, she talks about

So since it isn't easy, we shouldn't do it? Ridiculous.

You make a better argument here than the one made by Sarkeesian. Let's examine it more closely. You have a video game where you are going to motivate the protagonist (the player) so that they start going out and doing stuff like fighting and traveling from place to place. What is their motivation?

In "Last of Us"

Pht - so all the faceless hordes of male minions that get mowed down by the thousands in EVERY video game have "autonomy and depth"? And no male in a video game ever dies to elicit an emotional response? What a load of bullcrap.

There is no resistance to thinking about it. People think about it and then realize that it is a ridiculous, myopic and inherently selfish argument that is attempting to take basic writing convention and falsely attempt to say it is a "womyn's problem". It's a stupid argument, and so it is rejected on that basis -

I'd never threaten anyone.

But I am dismissing her argument as navel-gazing clickbait. Every argument she makes in the video pretends that the common writing convention of having an antagonist actually doing things that MAKE them an antagonist is somehow 'abusive' to women. Balderdash.

But when you examine reality (I.E. stuff that happens in the real world every day) it is not a skewed portrayal. In fact, in places where real evil exists such abuse of women is common. Take ISIS, for example. Such abuse of the innocent is commonplace among extreme ideologies.

So it's simply not true that the

"Aside from invoking terrible attitudes about women, it's also a cheap writing trick. "A lazy shorthand for evil."

As a matter of course, I always vote for the opposite party of whoever controls Congress. If the Democrats control the Senate, then I vote for a Republican congressman. If the Republicans control the congress, I vote for a Democrat senator. If the President is a Democrat, I vote Republican for both House and Senate

Democrat:

Yeah, but it still disturbs the ecosystem, threatens vital habitats, disrupts the mating habits of the river smelt, and uses materials made from fossil fuels. Therefore raise taxes on completely unrelated things, force citizens to pay 75% more for power, and then blame the resulting economic problems on

As long as the game soundtrack includes, "One Night In Bangkok", I'm in.

Bravo, sir. You have passed Civics 101. It is very unfortunate that there are so many citizens that think gridlock is "bad". Uh uh. Every time I hear that there is gridlock, I stand up and cheer. When the government 'shuts down'? That's even BETTER. That is not a problem. That is not a lack of