My kid started school this fall and I had to have a calm, respectful conversation with his teacher about the higher than average suspension rates for males of color AND the lowered expectations some teachers have. Awkward. Also? Totally necessary.

Pretty much. You can't expect students to respect or learn anything from teachers who seemingly don't care at all that you and people just like you have been victimized. Teachers can only teach effectively if they remain neutral in the classroom. Shouldn't that be something teachers already know? WTF, teachers?

I was getting coffee yesterday and there were two girls talking about it in line and it took every ounce of my being to not interrupt their conversation and explain to them that just because someone takes pictures (nude or otherwise) and places it on their personal devices, does not warrant someone going in and…

I don't think so at all. The physical burden of the mattress is strenuous, sure. But think of how walking in with a mattress will disrupt every class she goes to. How much room it takes up in an elevator. How it will slow/block traffic on a stairwell. Hell, how many people will be made uncomfortable by asking…

Haha, just poking fun.

Here's your filter:

or hump anything—as we all did as kids. i still feel so bad for humping my stuffed toys! they were my friends!

No... no, you really can't just stick anything inside your hooha.

Guys can stick their dicks in almost anything. It's patently unfair.

True that. I'm gonna become the third gender (aka awesome).

You're obviously not a woman. I am obviously not a woman either. We are genderless because I doubt men will let us be their gender either :/

No - it means that he probably has a slightly more difficult time understanding what it's like to not be represented by the vast majority of characters in popular media.

Seem? Certain people? I got news for you. Saying, "maybe women should form their own studio and make their pink games for girls" doesn't seem sexist to certain people. It is sexist as an objective fact. You imply that women should be segregated into their own studio because they and what they want are not "main…

Symptoms instead of the disease? Symptoms being the shitty treatment of women in games.. and I assume the disease would be sexism?

You have to be pretty wilfully blind to not see the hate women developers get when they DO make their own games. You can't just tell them to go make their own games without acknowledging that the shit follows them wherever they go. It's almost like it's not what they are saying - but that it's women saying it.

"No women gave a fuck about gaming pre 2005"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

... Hah. Now I'm just sad :(

But nooooo - there is no problem with sexism in video games or in the industry. It's all a bunch of women making things up! Plenty of men get metric tons of death and rape threats all the time!!

But it isn't like any of these people we were mentioning were exposing their private parts. You were talking about inane clothing like showing straps, showing legs, breasts. If a guy after a soccer practice took his shirt off? Okay. A girl? Shame. There is shame going on regarding how bodies are inherently sexual and…