I mean, if your argument is that it’s shameful they do so much damage to their bodies in exchange for low pay I’d agree, it’s absolutely shameful and they deserve to make far more for how much they have to give. But if the argument is that no one should do MMA, nah, you’re wrong. People are given one body and are…

why not watch people running into a wall? Because I like that both the competitors are trying to avoid taking damage. The point isn’t to get hurt, it’s to hurt the opponent. More sadism than masochism I guess.. They all end up brain damaged, and that’s sad. It’s also sad to recruit 14 year old kids and “brain wash”…

oh and one more addendum.. interestingly enough, professional boxers are more likely to sustain concussions than UFC fighters. The reason, amusingly enough, is their thicker padded gloves. The thicker padding of the gloves forces boxers to deliver more repeated higher-impact blows to their opponents head to knock them…

something the pink atrophied keyboard activists have a hard time understanding while sitting in decades of inactivity in their office chairs is that human mind and body are actually a lot more resilient than they believe 

UFC fighters suffer all sorts of long-term damage in their career.. oddly enough, concussions are NOT one of them. Most impacts are from fist contact, whereas football occurs at highspeed BODY impact. Bodies carry more mass and destructive force to a human than the mass of a fist, making it far less likely to suffer…

So why would you come to this UFC article?

So why would you come to this UFC article?

“Boxing/UFC is something different altogether. Why don’t we all just watch people sprint head first into brick walls instead? and then fast forward 20 years to watch them struggle to get out of bed in tears, as their families babysit them.”

I’d take the brain injury he got over the one you have just dealt to all of us.

Well, you did start off by telling him that his opinion is in the minority, when an easy comparison of both of your upvote tallies suggests that this is a more divisive issue than that stance implies.

Sexual misconduct is widespread in this industry, and I think it is dangerous to attempt to paint “sexualization of characters”, with no nuance, as something that might be indicative of toxicity. It is tremendously unfair and veers dangerously close to puritanism. And that’s without even taking into account that many …

I completely disagree that sexualized designs are necessarily an indication of how a developer values women.

I completely disagree that sexualized designs are necessarily an indication of how a developer values women. Enjoying creating - and consuming - art that is sexually stimulating in no way indicates how one views the subject of their sexual attraction. It just means they enjoy titillation - that’s all.

Yeah, no. That is not the case. TadBravo is shooting insults from the hip as a first course of action. Nowhere near the same.

Hi, thanks for writing that long reply, it’s very interesting. Not many people noticed but beyond my first two replies in the thread I’m just trolling the shit out of people who don’t understand the irony here.

You know who else is toxic? Poison Ivy so you’re a fucking sexist. Why do you hate women?

That said, I stand by my point. I am willing to bet that lots of people - myself included - believe it is utterly ridiculous to bring up sexualized designs (which I do not at all find problematic, in this instance) in a discussion about sexual misconduct.

Not to defend it or anything but I mean, have you seen the source material?

Poison Ivy’s MO is seduction, primarily of men. On top of that, her poison is secreted from her lips, so there’s always that sexual component to her victims. She was written as a seductress and she looked the part in the games. How do you think she should look?

I’ll give you Catwoman’s role though.

That’s more indicative of the audience isn’t it? Comics can be read by young kids, so while Ivy may be a hypersexualized characters, having her boobs hanging out wouldn’t be something most parents would approve of (especially pre-2000 which is what the majority of the media Poison Ivy was based on at the time is…