When faced with those who are threatening us with violence, yes. If someone threatens me with violence, they better follow through or else they will be on the wrong end of my fist, knife, or gun. Period. You do not get to threaten violence and claim it is free speech.

I feel that a lot of the people who say that we should allow these people a platform are the ones who fail to realize the innate power in language. They are the ones who often posit the old “sticks and stones” adage and fail to see how language is as dangerous as, and sometimes more so, actions. It is, in actuality, a…

Yeah, that is obviously true. My electrologist lived in Moscow too I think—if I recall correctly. I don’t know. I just hate the idea of blaming an entire culture for things like this, but I do believe you that there are probably a lot like that—there are a lot like that in the southern United States where I grew up…

I’ve only met a handful of Russians. All of them were perfectly accepting of me being trans and bi. In fact, my electrologist is a sweet Russian Jewish lady who cannot shut up about telling me of her life in Russia. It was a crappy life, but she constantly expresses disbelief at people who would oppose people like me.…

I think you are using “culture” too broadly here.

“Cultures” are also not singular forces to describe an entire populace. Contrary to layman’s terms, a national culture is made of up many sub-cultures. A majority of these sub-cultures could swing one way and yet only one comes into power via control of the government. We just saw this happen in America. The majority…

I sense you are being sarcastic and attempting to put words in my mouth. I never said this stuff. I said there is an LGBT environment in Russian—despite what Russian would want outsiders to think. My suggestion is that Russian “culture” no more anti-LGBT than American “culture,” but the governing forces are. In fact,…

Yes, I know there is a general disdain in the social consciousness, but not one perpetuated by the common populace so much as by the conservative government. I never meant otherwise.  

Russia as a culture is not responsible for this though. There are plenty of lgbt Russians and LGBT culture with Russian roots. The censorship here comes from their government. Culture and government are not interchangeable.

That’s the reason players who know what they are doing are doing it. However, there was a report not long ago that gathered some fan’s reactions to Popplio’s final form. A lot of people whined that a “female-looking” Pokemon would be a starter and thus have such a high chance of being male. In other words, people…

Good to know.

I suppose you misread my comment if you believe I am assuming anything. I never once made a claim. I made conjecture. I said that it wouldn’t surprise me. And, honestly, considering that MS is a business who has found ways to charge developers for things that should be free in the past (ala charging developers for…

I’m hardly a conspiracy theorist.

I wonder if it costs a partner to enable it though. I would not be shocked if MS charged a fee for that sort of thing.

I just wonder what that means exactly. I wouldn’t be shocked if MS charged a fee to activate support. This way they can make statements like “We support cross-play between devices and platforms for partners who want to enable it.” The statement wouldn’t be a lie. It would just be misleading, since the definition of…

That was my thought too. There are a small handful of actual studies that suggest women are more sexually fluid, but most of those also suggest that men can be as well and simply hide it more due to societal expectations beyond biological drive. So his excuse for not having bi men does not stack up either.

That would require them admitting their understandings are flawed too though. I think the issue is many of them do not honestly think their narrow understandings are in fact flawed.

Yeah, this is all sorts of problematic. On the one hand, as a “queer” woman, I certainly appreciate representation. But when said representation is clearly based on sexist ideals, it’s all sorts of insulting. So, let me get this straight: there are no straight women in this, or bi men? It feels like this stems from…

I had the issue all of last night. Almost every match I entered, I saw teammates flat out ignoring blue crests, even when there was no enemy threat present.

Ooh, I’ll have to try that! ^.^