If these allegations are true, it is in no way the women’s fault. Do you even know how long the women were there before they started reporting this? They might have gone through all the proper channels right off. You are making a number of assumptions just so you can cast blame on the victims.   

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.

Thank goodness! I need this show in my life like I need a warm bowl of chili to save me from these cold times! Seriously... it’s freezing here...

If he isn’t dead, then I hope that we play Ellie and have to essentially take care of business while watching out for him the way he did for her in the first game.

and legos on the floor, and nobody’s allowed to wear shoes.

I like this theory a lot!

You cannot enter a disagreement and then proclaim there is nothing to debate. There is always something to debate.

Next, I wouldn’t call Kotaku’s treatment with gamergate the “entire gaming community.” I’m part of the gaming community, but I also opposed the gamergate nutjobs out there like many of my gaming sisters. Kotaku’s “blasting” was, from what I witnessed, directed at the stirrings of radical right attitudes among a…

Hmm, you have some interesting points, but I am not entirely convinced.

Here is my issue: the outcry that it is wrong to refuse service to a group of people simply because of their sexuality (for example) is not comparable to certain acts committed by far-right radicals. I have not visited these dark recesses of…

Can you provide an example of “far left bullying” and how it compares to “far right bullying,” please? Also, can you define “freedom of speech” for me—I believe you are using the abstract ideal as opposed to the legal usage but I would like to make sure.

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…

So, according to you, I am making my child’s life difficult by letting him dress how he wants (or perhaps you mean by me being trans in the first place), hm? Wouldn’t it make more sense to say that the people who end up bullying him, if they do, are in fact the ones that make his life difficult? Or, are you still…