it looks like you are refusing to understand what i am trying to say. yes i think most of the negative things that happen to women, done by men, are seen as being mysoginy when most of it is just good old genderneutral assholeness. that does not mean i dont believe in the existance of sexism. the only point why this went…
I never said if a woman gets her ideas rejected, it's because she's a woman. Have you ever been in a situation where you'll provide a detailed solution to a problem only to have nobody say anything, or somebody might just say "Sorry, no."? Those are the situations I'm talking about. If somebody makes an attempt to…
Way late to this party, but just thought I'd provoke some more thought on a broader topic. It's going to be very interesting to see how internet culture develops in the next 5 or so years with this increase in the 'sticks and stones'(SWAT, DDOS, etc) rather than the usual unfriendly word exchange. I really see anonymity as…
I totally understand why Polycount wants to discuss important things. I apologize if that image derailed the topic in any way, because that is never my intention. However, as great as the PC community is, this is still the internet, and I truly believe that an online forum is never the best place to discuss "things that…
linkov: She initially was going to go to the talk anyway, until it was made clear that the university police were going to be pretty much worthless in deterring a real gun threat. It's not just her life, dude. It's everyone else there. Think about this like a normal human being with a sense of not just self-preservation,…
I hate the idea of someone having their hard work to get where they are disregarded unfairly but I find it difficult to trust stories about studies like that. I've argued on and off for years with different people of various political and ethical persuasions and the one common characteristic I've seen across all of them…
Nothing of value or importance has ever come out of Sarkeesian, but death threats are just dumb and childish on another level, it also shows obvious problems with the sender. I'm not sure how i feel about her giving it so much social media attention each time it happens though. The best way to go about it is to simply…
I think you should start from hiring people based solely on their skill. Because when I see all those actions like "We will hire woman! Even if you don't know what are you doing it's ok! You don't even have to have breasts, you must have to believe you are woman!" Of course is exaggerated, but when I saw what GNOME did,…
My issue with all this is that this isn't just in games. It is everything. The guys that are called out for this are assholes plain and simple. The death threats are fucking stupid on so many levels and perhaps if people actually received real punishments for these (they may have, i try not to follow this shit) then maybe,…
I don't understand where you are getting this from. As I have stated twice now, I am not saying that if you are a woman, your idea should be accepted every time. How about the classic situation where a woman, or other discriminated person, shoots an idea to everybody else, is completely ignored, then has his/her idea…