Reader Donovan was one of two students who put together this great documentary called The Dark Side: A Tale of Black Cosplay.

The difference is that white women are generally the bar to which other women are held to, whether it’s beauty standards or how ‘feminist behavior’ is supposed to be.

The fact that you even typed, ‘Don’t do this, you’re not helping’ is making my blood boil. We can only help if we do it the way YOU want, right? Ugh. Way to NOT be an ally and silence WOC.

Knock me over with a feather...

The Advocate reports House Bill 757 would “allow adoption and foster care agencies, homeless shelters, drug clinics, food pantries, and for-profit businesses to refuse service to LGBT people.”

What kind of utopia are you from to think that everyone have control of their own employment? You think it is still a choice if the alternate is unemployment and starvation? You don’t know about everyone’s situation.

I’ve said it else where. You do realize it’s not like Microsoft went up to these girls individually and said “Hey, we want you to go to a professional setting, wearing this outfit and make it sexy.”

Well 1... the author wasn’t actually there.

You’re ignoring the main issue for the minor one. “sexy schoolgirl costumes are bad” is this essayists opinion, and that’s cool. The dancers present might not feel that way, and that’s cool. But it is a fact that that is not appropriate for a Microsoft tech event.

I doubt it. Let’s not forget kotaku was really at the center of the whole social agenda push a few years back where the editors were colluding with other publications to keep on message.

Yeah, pretty obvious who didn’t read her post. And anyone with a passing familiarity with Maki would know she’s *definitely* not going to align with the “hurr those damn SJWs” crowd, so if they think they have an ally in her, they’re mistaken.

The fact that people think it is that simple shows the biggest problem with the pattern of thought around these issues.

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And we have winners already 10 minutes in and we have a “you’re a hypocrite for being a part of the problem” response and a “hurr those damn SJWs, Microsoft did nothing wrong”

So..... Did you manage to read the whole article or just skim the first paragraph to get the taking point you wanted? It certainly seems like the latter.

Ah classic feminism. It’s not empowering and it doesn’t matter unless I say so...

Or... It’s entirely possible that Microsoft still screwed up in some respects, but that other criticisms aren’t valid. It’s a complex issue, and honestly neither party involved in this is really innocent aside from the one just doing the job they were hired for.

Hmm... A reasoned, complex response to a complex issue. Cue the attacks from both sides.

Maki Roll, a professional cosplayer and dancer, has written a fascinating essay about Microsoft’s recent GDC party controversy. She examines the event from a dancer’s perspective, and takes a closer look at what the backlash says about an industry grappling with the increased visibility of women’s issues.