My fist thought, to whom did she decline a date?

Not when you consider 20% of Texas residents are uninsured and surgery in Mexico can cost a fraction of surgery in the US. I’m a US citizen and I went to Mexico for root canals and lasik surgery (back when lasik was several grand per eye in the states). Saved thousands.

Well, unless it was cosmetic surgery - lots of people go where it’s less expensive to do that. Or she/they didn’t have US insurance that covered what she needed.

Was just reading yesterday’s piece about this. My first thought was, “She’s dead.” Really wish I’d been wrong. Fourteen years old, the whole world and life ahead of her, apparently happy, beautiful... and surely innocent of whatever motive there may have been.

Nobody is rejecting anybody? We aren’t talking about keeping people out of gaming,

I don’t think the dancers felt embarrassed by it. The were doing their job, that’s all. The problem lies in Microsoft for trying to push women in the industry, and then pulling a trick like this.

The dancers 100% did nothing wrong. The event organizers fucked up.

I think the side-eye is targeted more at the organizers who thought it was a good idea to hire the dancers, rather than at the dancers themselves.

So, I know the eye-rolling for some people is going to start. But let me just say: This was not the time or place for this sort of thing. There could potentially be a time and a place for this sort of thing, but it’s NOT at an event associated with professional endeavors, even in the gaming industry. It’s not okay.…

I would post a gif illustrating you missing the point but...what’s the point.

Sexual violence is incredibly common. Crap like this contributes to that.

Get ready for the mouthbreathers in the comments to come out and say it’s their rights to ogle booth babes that are violated, and also GamerGate is actually about ethics in gaming journalism.

Because they were merely hired to do a job.

Completely agree.

This is true. He needs to sit down with his fiance *now* and be honest about what’s going on.

If you’ve reached a point where you’re asking “Should I leave my fiance for my crush...” the answer is yes and no.

Men like this usually have nothing else going for them. It’s like the guys that complain how girls just don’t like nice guys. It’s not that they are being rejected because they’re nice (although a lot of them aren’t), they are being rejected because they have nothing else going for them.

So many of these are about triangles. What am I doing wrong that I can’t meet one good person and hit it off with them? (Aside from being completely broke, out of shape, unemployed, having zero self-esteem, having no friends, never leaving the house because people make me uncomfortable, and generally being broken as a…

I literally winced when I read the article headline. The grass is rarely greener on the other side.