The fox logo is still there. Huh. What are the news on that front btw, is Kojima still on or what ? Didn' t have the heart to keep tabs on that.
Lol, is the Sarkeesian supporter about to get the Sarkeesian treatment ? Couldn' t help but notice one of Black Widow' s lines in the trailer wasn' t in the movie ("I don' t need to get that question answered")
That was pretty much my definition of patriarchy. When I see feminists use the word in modern days I have no clue what they' re talking about anymore. That' s not the world I grew up in. Mine was more like ... Spoiler I' ve been raised to white knight women, to become the über SJW, to cut them some slack any way I can while pretending I didn' t. I highly doubt I' m the only one, few men are willing to sleep in the dog house. I' m also 35 and still not married, I definitely understand what Bill is talking about here. Besides, even if you do look back in time, while gender roles were stricter they didn' t necessarily put all the power in men' s hands : Spoiler I briefly mentioned what was going on in Sweden earlier, they' re waging a war on boys in their schools. If you' ve never heard of it google it up, it' s jaw dropping. There' s a lot of public institutions running on 50 years old feminist dogmas that are simply outdated. Now might be about damn time for some feminists to wake the **** up and notice. Spoiler Yeah, I know, lots of lengthy videos in my posts. What can I say, I have a lot of free time on my hands lately and I can be very patient when my interest is caught.
I think money is pretty tangible alright. And while they do earn less women also own more, white knight syndrome I guess.
I don' t believe in conspiracies but I do believe in convergence of interests. That being said, I think the status quo is closer to "may the best man win" than to "may man win", more than you might realize. Here in France we' ve passed quotas, half of our politicians are women. We were told they would do things differently, be less petty than their male colleagues. My ass. Politics is politics, regardless of your gender. Be a shark or drown. The rule of the game is competition. No one is actively keeping girls from becoming IT students. No one. We already give equality of opportunity in school but divisions already appear there.
Joss Whedon warned that we wouldn' t have to sit through the whole credits this time. He said the Shwarmma scene couldn' t be topped.
They didn' t snatch, but yeah people noticed eventually. Not sure it made me a weirdo or not but they laughed, so yay. I even caricatured one of my teachers once. Directly on the table. The whole table. I did it in crayon, didn' t want them to go through hell to erase it. The girl who took my place the following hour called it out immediately. I guess my teacher took it well because she didn' t insist much to try and get me to admit, in vain, and she was smiling the whole time.
I didn' t write. I drew. A lot. A good chunk of my school notes was buried under the silly stuff.
Okay clearly we' re not on the same wavelength here so let me define the word as I understand it : a feminazi is a feminist with a fascist/authoritarian attitude. Doesn' t have to reach nazi extremes. I' ve signed two contracts that had me promise, among other things, to mind the length of my skirt and the flashiness of my lipstick. My sister is a nurse, she has seen many kids refuse to believe their doctor was really a doctor because it was a woman. I know there are preconceptions going around, but I think blaming it all on the ominous patriarchy is ridiculous. Women and men might just have different interests, ask any mother of many and she' ll tell you we' re not born blank slates. My sis gave my nephew all sorts of toys from his birth, including dolls and plastic dish washers. I saw him play with everything but his favorites were football and cars from starters. Two years later everything "girly" was gone. I' m sure there is some form of institutionalized resistance, but I wouldn' t blame all our differences on it. I' ve been an IT student, in two schools, the lack of women in that field was startling. Is it really such a wonder few women get these jobs if few even try ? I was sympathetic with Anita at first, if memory serves I even opened a thread here about it. But then things went downhill fast. The list of beefs people have with her is endless, but it' s all over youtube already. Worse thing is talking about her, even in a negative light, still promotes that con artist. Yay me. Personally I don' t care about representation. First because I' m more often than not looking for a game first and foremost, and second because I identify with my character in terms of his actions, especially in-game. How he looks is often purely cosmetic. At least it is to me. People write about what they know, it' s about what the characters go through, not about who they are per se. There' s no real tactful way to say you' ve just entered loopy territory. Thing is, where do you draw the line and why. While name calling doesn' t make a pertinent point any less pertinent, yes, trying to be tactful is generally advisable.
Yeah, I could tell from the trailer alone. I hoped for something inventively written but ... nope.
Saw it this afternoon. This Quicksilver has nothing over Days of Future Past, but aside from that Age of Ultron sure is full of money shots. The plot tries to focus on the most obscure characters (the newcomers and those who haven' t had their own movie yet), which is good I guess. But because of their growing number this movie suffers a bit from the X-Men syndrome, it doesn' t flow as well as the first one. Also, this one didn' t make me laugh once, but I' m sure the French translation is partially to be blamed for that. Might also be because they tried to have creepy undertones whenever Ultron was around, but I got bored of that rather fast. The guy is ranting.
If it' s any consolation, so do I. But the only one I have home belonged to my lil sis, I' ll let you picture how it looks on me. Or not.
Or she was the funny aunt. Or she stained her last decent shirt with pizza. Didn' t feel like asking.
Tru story, I saw a woman wearing an "ask me out I' m single" shirt once, yet as far as I could tell the man and kids following her around were hers. My pals were just as confused.
How about the burly lumberjack flanel shirts then ? Kind of a gay icon ya know ?
Just poking fun at the photo. When it comes to virulent anti-gay people you can' t help but wonder how much in the closet they are themselves.
Spoiler View attachment 41909 Anti-gay. Of course. Totally. Why would you even.
Oh don' t take me wrong, calling it a sin sounds completely ludicrous to me, I was just telling you were they probably come from. Personally as long as they won' t stand in the way of gays getting equal rights then I don' t care, they can call it a sin all they want.
What about the ones that speak of keeping males in cage for reproduction purposes only, doesn' t that land them in the nazi area ? Personally I' d rather call them pretend feminists, as I already have, or misandrysts since that would be spot on, but the word feminazi seems to be pretty well understood in the US (yup, it exists in French as well, at least colloquially). I was just going with the funny title Tale Wind thought of for me. I don' t remember trying to imply all feminists are feminazis. I' m a feminist, remember ? Name calling alone can' t discredit a whole movement, that' s an ad hominem attack, a fallacy. If it works it means people think the name calling is deserved. This might explain why people have legitimate reasons to be wary of feminists : Spoiler Now don' t take me wrong, I do realize that this particular word is often waved around for less than noble reasons by die hard misogynists, I' m not that daft. I wouldn' t agree with Sargon to say there' s nothing left to fix in the West. But since we' re talking about labels : Spoiler If you only watch one vid watch the later, it sums everything up better than I could. While I wouldn' t throw Sarkeesian or Brianna Wu in the nazi box I would totally call them tumblrinas, as in most of what they say (judging from what I' ve seen) is either asinine or self-contradicting. A hundred per cent feelz based. They' ve crossed my line into insane word police. It makes me cringe to think they' re thought of as pertinent public faces for feminism. And to be honest that shirtgate thing kinda broke the camel' s back on my end, talk about first world problems. I doubt I' m the only one in that boat. Remember that thread about rape in the army ? The one that opened with a blatantly androgynist post ? Yet everyone got on my ass when I called it out ? That' s far from being an isolated incident in feminist conversations.
I don' t think that' s the part she' s worried about.
