Recent Blog Posts
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Letter to an advice column, rewritten
Dear Robin, Our only child is getting married soon. My husband and I love his fiancé and are fully supportive of this arrangement– last year, my husband and I committed to paying for the wedding. Here’s the problem: Turns out that both my son and his fiancé have different beliefs about religion than we do.…
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The latest indignity
Dignity is a sort of agreement between people. A decision to grant that a person, or body of people, deserve respect. That they possess agency, the capacity and the right to make their own decisions. To determine their own lives. America has agreed, implicitly, that poor people have no dignity. If we as a nation…
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People being stupid about Zarya
Sigh. Guys, Zarya is a character in a video game. Not a real person auditioning to be your girlfriend.
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Zarya
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…
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Oversexualize? Overnope.
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…
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Nothing more spectacular about him
The BBC has a profile on Omar El-Hussein, the man who carried out Saturday’s killings in Copenhagen. He apparently was assisted by two other men, who have since been taken in police custody. They were charged with providing El-Hussein with weapons and helping him escape after the attacks. We know El-Hussein was not an immigrant–…