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The problem is not how Tracy and her family handled this. The problem is that we all take for granted that part of a man's role in a heterosexual relationship is to offer protection to his woman and put himself at risk to protect her.
This is not only problematic with gender roles, it's ableist as hell…
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Well that's fine for you, and thank you for couching your comment in all the "I don't speak for all guys" and "strong women are awesome" bits as well. But the whole "men are violent, physical protectors! Women should be grateful for their protection!" trope has been around for a long time, and I think it still is a…
Same reaction here. WTF, ladies. Guys are not inherently good at self defense.
That's true, but it still doesn't make me feel the least bit comfortable with that phrasing in the article, or the similar comments here. It's a big ball of gender issues, right down to the basic issue that intruders are probably a whole heck of a lot more likely to be male than female. But thinking along the lines of…
For my part, it definitely "pushed my buttons". I feel bad about that because, here we have people talking about how they were worried about their safety in specific concrete situations, and I'm going all "femi-nazi" on them with comparatively abstract, airy social issues. But while I feel guilty about that, oh boy…
I don't disagree with the "it's creepy to be alone" bit or the " having someone around is reassuring" bit, but, you know, given obvious social and cultural context, it's kind of hard to interpret the "I have a dude instead of a weapon" bit in the original article, and the closely related replies here, in any other way…
(Goes to feminist website)
For me I imagine it will be this for a while:;
You must suck really hard in Smash Brothers.
Button mashing is a concept characterized by rapid input in random directions couple with random button presses. That doesn't work at all in SSB, largely because the arenas in SSB are freakin' huge and all of the attacks are executed in simple ways that don't require any kind of discovery.
Yop!
USA was founded on racism, we're pretty much one of the most diverse and racist countries in the world. Well, you basically get a lot of racism in white countries, whereas countries like China have a very homogenized community. But if it's not racism in other countries, then it's political/religious strife.
"Judging by these comments, there seems to be a split in terms of whether this is found to be offensive."
I'm pretty sure that's JENSEN being racist. My Jensen would never say something that stupid and offensive.
Actually, it doesn't seem too racist to me that the PLAYER chooses to purposely say something offensive to get a rise out of a character, and that the character would react in an appropriately offended manner. And I'm pretty sure racism is a hot topic in quite a few countries outside of the USA. In fact, in some…
Its foolish to say that people shouldn't be offended, if they're offended thats that, and if you don't understand why t,thats just it, you don't UNDERSTAND. You don't know how it feels to be a type if person if you aren't that type of person. So why tell that person how to feel about a subject? THe REAL people with…
Yeah, racism is a pretty small deal. It's not the sort of thing worth discussing in a journalistic context. I mean, who cares, right? It's just racism. The more the merrier, really.
I'm black, from the heart of Georgia, and I've never heard this "I's a be" way of speaking, even though I hear people sound like country idiots all of the time. This hinders on borderline retarded mixed with old school stereotypes. It doesn't bother me at all actually. But the facts are the facts.