Sigh. Guys, Zarya is a character in a video game. Not a real person auditioning to be your girlfriend.
feminism, Overwatch, video games
Zarya
Today at PAX East, Blizzard revealed two new playable characters for its upcoming FPS game Overwatch, announced last November at […]
feminism, Overwatch, sexism, video games
Oversexualize? Overnope.
Last November during BlizzCon, I wrote a post critiquing the design of some of the female playable characters as compared […]
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Naming of names
At work the other day, we got into a discussion about names. Weird family names, bizarre nicknames, the difference (if […]
apostasy, freedom of speech, human rights, Islam, religion
Calling it justice doesn’t make it just
Apparently in the uproar over beheadings committed by ISIS, some have noticed that America’s ally Saudi Arabia has committed quite a […]
freedom of speech, Islam, politics, religion
In the virtue stakes, reverence leaves empathy at the starting line
In France, individual citizens run a satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, which publishes cartoons making fun of Muhammad among countless […]
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Watching Charlie
The manhunt for the terrorists continues. At least three mosques in various French cities have been attacked. News sources deliberate […]
animal rights, politics
The rich and the poor alike are forbidden to stand on dogs
On New Year’s Day, a group of photos showed up in my Facebook news feed. It turned out to be […]