That's the thing though. "Warrior Goddesses" are their own trope. Femme fatale is a trope. The Last of Us "Had it's own problems".

The range of acceptable narratives seems to get ever narrower, because nobody's defining up front exactly which tropes and narratives should be avoided. I've had an argument or two…

I'm kind of concerned that Dragonage Origins was held up as an example of sexism. The knights-kidnapping-my-fiance/me narrative is a pretty good motivator in a medieval-themed story. As a female gamer, do you think that example was portrayed out of context to spice-up the segment, or is that narrative itself…

It's still a major problem in groups who've been alienated from the replacement measures of masculinity. Traditional masculinity could go one of two ways. For the better socialized it was about stoicism and patience, and working hard to support a family. For the neurotic and insecure, it was about gaining respect…

The existence of "Gamergate" reflects a major glitch in American media: In a world where anyone anywhere, child or adult, can say anything they want on the internet, you're *going* to have angry people threaten you when you insult their hobby/sports team/religion. The media continuously treats these sporadic…

That's a major problem with the CIV series as a whole. They'd pay lip service to different civilizations by throwing in the other factions' immortal leaders, and a couple unique units for each faction, but ultimately none of the games provide an actual alternate history experience. It always ends up feeling like…

Because the fly doesn't actually suffer. He's kicking and such because "pain" is like a wake-up alarm. There's no distress involved.

I hope it consoles you to know that though Insects have pain signals reaching their brains, triggering evasive action, they don't actually 'feel' pain, because they have no ability to 'suffer'. Emotions are required for suffering.

Was it a dead bee? Was it angry when it died?

The nerves send alarm signals to the brain, but to actually feel 'pain' on our level, you need the emotional connections for suffering. It's more like a blinking warning light that triggers an escape program. They don't have the structures required for the emotional component, so their pain isn't distressing or…

Pain and Suffering are two different things. Pain isn't so bad without suffering, which is why surgery is sometimes conducted suppressing the latter rather than the former.

For an Insect, pain is a red blinking dashboard light telling them to get the hell out of there. But experiments seem to show that they don't…

Israel really isn't the place to go "to actually be shot at", considering the only shooting that goes on there is directed the opposite way.

I too saw children playing it in a public library. They were so excited and wanted me to join. I didn't dare tell them about Everquest.

what exactly does total war look like? We know which side is helpless and which has overwhelming force. Since israel will never accept an arab majority, and considers its arab citizens a demographic threat, what exactly would happen to those millions of defeated non-citizens?

um, the only way we as a society determine who is a rapist is by convicting them in court. If only 3% of reported events result in conviction, that actually suggests a lack of evidence, and suggests a higher % of accusations likely to be false.

lets say an accusation makes it all the way to court. Can we assume that those acquitted did not commit rape, despite the accusation having been strong enough for a prosecution?

so does that mean 92-98.5% of accused rapists are convicted? Or do we acquit people we know are guilty? How does one account for that?

the statistics are all over the place, depending on what study you believe, up to 45%. We must assume (being a lawful society) that those acquitted of the charge of rape are innocent, and in england that was 40% of the accused.

seriously??? Hes being criticized for not validating a rape accusation against him?

I wouldn't call it mental evolution though. It just requires one generation of good public schooling for everyone, and to put those young people in positions of authority. And it doesn't necessarily correlate to war or oppression on the shortterm, because it's a top down thing. If a regime is abusive, rich, and…

I don't mean to refer to tourists, and I'm not really going off of tourist report. I know a few people who teach in other countries and have become fluent in their languages. There's a latent hostility and paranoia between local people in some places, even though their idioms are full of excessive, rigidly false…