It's a really, really big "if."
Today at PAX East, Blizzard revealed two new playable characters for its upcoming FPS game Overwatch, announced last November at BlizzCon. You can see a video of the entire presentation here. The two heroes announced are a futuristic outlaw gunslinger called McCree, and a Russian “tank” soldier called Zarya. Game director for Overwatch Jeff Kaplan … Read more
Last November during BlizzCon, I wrote a post critiquing the design of some of the female playable characters as compared to the male characters in the newly revealed but not yet released FPS game Overwatch. In it, I addressed the following comment made by Blizzard senior vice president Chris Metzen: Specifically for Overwatch over the … Read more
The NYPD’s ‘Work Stoppage’ Is Surreal. Matt Taibbi describes the strange twist of New York’s Police Benevolent Association (which becomes a more and more ironic title by the minute) deciding to start making arrests “only when they have to” in order to try and stick it to Mayor Bill de Blasio by depriving the city … Read more
Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents), alternatively spelled doxxing, is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual. — Wikipedia In some cases, this “research” involves simply looking at the email address from which a message came, and including it rather than expunging it when you publish (“broadcast”) the content … Read more
A man who is sexist against women is also sexist against men, because he assumes, falsely, that all or most men are likewise sexist against women. Is this a rule? I feel like this should be a rule. At least, I have not yet seen a counter-example. This essay on Thought Catalog, non-encouragingly titled 13 … Read more
We Hunted the Mammoth is a good site to read if you don’t know what the men’s rights movement is. If you’ve ever heard the acronym “MRA” and not understood what it means, that’s where I’d suggest you go (hint: the “A” stands for “activist”). So I guess it’s only fitting that Dave Futrelle, author … Read more
Nope, I’m not. Matt Taylor apologized– apparently sincerely. Nobody I actually know is angry at him now, if they were before. I’m angry at the horde of people who are: Shrieking on Twitter and any other social media site that he shouldn’t have apologized, because he did nothing wrong and they need him to be … Read more
Some of my best friends are women! Inspirations: http://the-toast.net/2014/09/11/father-daughters-think-treat-women-like-daughters/ http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/09/im-right-youre-wrong-and-shes-a-feminist-detractor/
Dee in conversation with her mother I’m in the market for new comics– but let’s note that to me, all comics are basically new. I have read and loved Maus 1 and 2 by Art Spiegelman and Alan Moore’s Top 10 series, but that’s pretty much it. In thinking about what to start reading I came … Read more
“Consequence” is one of those words that has taken on a connotation of the negative, even though the denotation does not require it. Strictly speaking, a consequence is an effect, an outcome, a result. That’s all. Consequences are the reasons we do things– if our actions had no outcomes, there would be no point in … Read more