I almost got hit by a cop car under similar circumstances. They had their lights off trying to sneak up on the teenagers congregating on the other side of the park. Thankfully we heard them coming with enough time to get out of the way.

I was happy to vote for Sanders back in March, but if I’d been voting yesterday I would’ve grumpily voted for Clinton because ENOUGH. It’s honestly sad to see this happening to him. I understand it’s hard to quit when small donors are still sending you tens of millions of dollars. But the smart Big Picture thing to do…

This “veit” person, in passionate defense of “this asshole should not be trying to police women’s bodies!” has now dismissed two replies I’ve made explaining feminist stuff in detail. Because policing women’s bodies at a con is very very bad. But policing a woman’s feminist arguments in the comment section of kotaku…

If you define everyone who disagrees with you in ways that make you uncomfortable as “trolling,” then you are seriously stunting your ability to learn. Not that I think you must agree with me, but the fact that you can’t even recognize a sincere argument, well, that is bad. It’s not trolling for me to elucidate how…

I am a committed leftist. This isn’t what it looks like when we eat our own. This is just children in the sandbox throwing toys at each other.

I think that’s the key. I couldn’t assume.

I doubt I will ever understand people who engage in extended conversations and then dismiss the last reply. Like, don’t you feel a small tingle of embarrassment? Because you should.

followed by the history of sexual success

I really should not be surprised that a fair number of people who enjoy playing dress up are not, in fact, terribly mature or worldly. Not that it’s impossible for a mature and worldly person to enjoy cosplay, I’m sure it is! I’ve known some perfectly adult people who love the shit out of some Ren Fest. It’s just, the…

It’s not that you would be trying to figure out my gender, it’s that you would just figure it out naturally if you actually understood what I was writing. And the John Miller reference is poor work for numerous reasons that have nothing to do with your personal posting standards. What is even the joke there? Donald…

That’s such a nicer outcome than believing in a world where someone not only thinks it’s a good idea to pretend to be Vincent Gallo in order to score nudie pics but that this plan actually works.

I almost broke up with the guy who first showed it to me. I spent the entire movie yelling at him and his friends. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN ANY OF THE OTHER NUMEROUS TARANTINO RIP OFFS THAT YOU THINK THIS IS GROUNDBREAKING? (Safe to assume they hadn’t seen any of the movies Tarantino ripped off.)

Boondock Saints 2 confession: I saw it opening day with my bro, because we have been known to celebrate willful displays of horridness. Walking out of the theater after, there was a male/female couple standing there waiting to enter for the next show. He looked excited, she looked worried. She saw me, an apparently…

Is John Miller a middle aged woman living in the Midwest and in no way involved in geek culture beyond going to movies and reading the occasional kotaku post? How special are you that you can’t even figure out my gender from context.

What isn’t ironic at all is your inability to recognize word play. That is exactly the outcome I’d expect! I know, I know, there’s no costumes referring back to some obvious source to explain the reference to you, just words, and words are hard.

I’m not trying to police women’s costumes, or how they choose to make money. I’m laughing at how attempts to apply feminist principles to cosplay invariably end in an incoherent mess. This guy is actually buying into the entire idea of “rah! rah! owning my sexuality doing sexy cosplay and celebrating these characters…

I assumed she never stopped. :(

No, the ultimate irony is that he’s basically telling mercenary women looking to make money off their looks that he doesn’t need to pay them because he’s got local hotties who not only show off the goods but actually put effort into their costumes and he’s being called out for slut shaming. He’s celebrating the sluts!…

He was referring specifically to the models who work all sorts of events at convention centers, like boat shows and car shows. I’ve known one, she was a very nice young woman from a small town who understood that she was well paid to stand there, look pretty and withstand varying degrees of sexual harassment. She quit…

Pretty sure it was figurative language.