This is one of the best summaries I've read of the "fuck you, ladies and minorities, YOU'RE all the ones with the privilege!" mentality that keeps popping up in this shitstorm.
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He appears to have raised five great kids, so yeah, he had something to offer the world and his death is still a loss.
what a really shitty thing to say. The man had children and a family. You may not agree with what he did but to say that he was too stupid to deserve life or that he was so stupid that the pain his family is feeling doesn't count, is just shitty.
When I was 7-years-old I clearly remember coming home from the local high school game with my mom and older brother and I was the one who found our dad dead on the kitchen floor. (Heart attack.)
Unlike women who are abused, men have an easier time of leaving the relationship because of economics. Not discounting mental abuse, men usually have the advantage when it comes to physical abuse. I think you are being very kind in acknowledging abuse to males, but let's not let this anomaly distract us from the…
There are a few first hand accounts but the majority of the entries are links to new stories on legitimate news websites, all of which are about women being injured or killed by ex-partners, partners they were in the process of leaving or people who they turned down. Basically it's an index linking to these stories.
there are probably a lot of abused men out there that don't report the abuse out of shame or harassment.
Reading your post breaks my heart, and it is incredibly brave for you to share this. Thank you for doing that. Every story helps breakthrough the din of those who refuse to believe in domestic violence.
I think the best thing you can do is reach out to your state's coalition to end domestic violence. This page with…
Thanks for this. I've been yelling this at my tv and radio for weeks now. I taught in a women's prison and had countless women in my class with the same stories. I had a woman whose husband essentially scalped her with a 2x4, beat her repeatedly, threw her through a glass door, brought home his girlfriend beat her in…
While I don't disagree with your second point, I don't think this is child abuse. As others have pointed out, she looks like she knew she was going to get water poured on her and she reacted in the way I've seen kids react when they've gotten into a swimming pool before. Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't think parents…
Most of "doritogate" had nothing to do with us, but maybe you're referring to some stuff that came up regarding swag? How one of our video editors turned out to have kept an Assassin's Creed promo flag? We'd by and large been saying no to swag but weren't doing it aggressively enough and have been since. I don't know…
"if this was about a male developer, there would have been open discussions and articles on Kotaku and other gaming outlets"
I'm not really in the loop on this thing and don't really have an educated opinion to offer on which side of the controversy I agree with myself (The large amount of misinformation and angry…
This is a whole different can of worms, but no, if a male indie developer's ex-girlfriend posted on Tumblr about him cheating on her, that would probably not be a story on Kotaku. I wouldn't consider either of those people to be public figures in the video game industry.
Eventually, you will. I haven't gotten to it yet. I collected a lot of notes for it, but, problematically, many of the critiques of Sarkeesian's work are full of ad hominem attacks, skepticism about her fundraising, and other issues that distract from criticism of the substance and accuracy of her arguments.
"She's the main driving force for John."
I think you're starting to see the point, but one thing: videogames aren't just videogames. They're a significant part of "society", and /changing/ how video games portray women is one piece of the puzzle in doing "everything it can to put an end to exploitation".
Ignoring the significant trend of an exploitative practice in order to depict the exceptional example can and does contribute to the general perception that the exceptions are more common than they really are. In other words, even depicting a "liberated" prostitute can actually serve to obscure the awareness of the…
The only kind of prostitution that is wrong is the kind where someone is exploited
That's called an argument based on recurring motifs. Would you argue that TVTropes.org "literally (sic) cherry-picked" moments from other media to demonstrate that certain tropes recur in media? Or that folklorists are cherry-picking their observations of recurrent motifs in fairy tales and myths? I wouldn't.