Comment Re:And that's still too long (Score 1) 328
I'll believe you when George RR Martin gets sued.
Can't copyright an idea champ.
I'll believe you when George RR Martin gets sued.
Can't copyright an idea champ.
If she was dressed in a similar fashion to their interpretation, they might have had grounds to sue. Meanwhile.
Yeah but then again almost every fantasy novel ever written borrowed heavily from the trail blazed by The Lord of the Rings. Look at the wildly popular Malazan series, he openly looted from dozens of other works such as "Black Company" and yet he remains unsued, and don't get me started on Game of Thrones.
There's more to the arts than music.
Or the people who take stories from public domain, adapt them for the movie screen, and then get to keep all the rights and money forever ?
The original stories are still in the public domain, there's nothing stopping you from adapting them yourself.
There really are only so many possible stories and plotlines.
No, there aren't. Music may be constrained by its medium but the imagination knows no such limitations.
I know I shouldn't say it but this is completely fucking awesome. We live in a cyberpunk future!
Does this criticism include calling them hateful racist misogynists, and/or are they professional entertainers of one sort or another? If not, then try comparing apples to apples for a change. And that's before we start looking at who exactly is doing most of the criticising, and certainly the most biting. If you guessed "women", you'd be correct!
The patriarchy made them do it, right?
But this is just more of the same old damned if you do, damned if you don't bullshit from feminists. Your cursed religion and its fellow travellers can't die soon enough for my liking.
There isn't a single kind of feminism.
And you lose in the first sentence. Patriarchy theory is as fundamental to feminism as Christ is to Christianity, you can't have one without the other.
Which is of course secondary to the actual issue, in that the correct answer to people criticising your psychotic associates is NOT to say "not all feminists are like that", but to demand stridently that the leadership/movement dissociate those nutballs post haste, and if they don't get the hell out yourself.
If you don't do that you absolutely deserve to be tarred with the same brush.
only speaks to how quickly you're ready to judge a group based on your own prejudices
Don't even bother, cupcake.
Before we go and mark Anita for sainthood
Oh don't worry, there's no danger of her receiving any accolades from anyone who isn't a bigot.
Oh enough, if a woman wore that kind of clothing during the interview, even if it was a shirt covered in pictures of hunky men, the usual talking heads bobbing up and down showering her with praise would have to wrestle with the thirsty white knights to bray the most approval. You go girl, fight that patriarchy!
Bigotry of all sorts needs to be rooted out, especially the spreading boil that is feminism.
Likewise, I despise warm climates. Give me the ice and cold and snow! Mind you I prefer to be warm in those climates, but having the option is important. In Nordic countries many parents leave their babies outside in sub zero temperatures.
More of this!
However, judging by the fact that you seem to receive very few upvotes at all for any of the comments you post (but quite a few downvotes), I'm going to suggest that you change strategy, and maybe accept that you can be wrong.
Oh don't you worry about my karma cupcake, I've got it to burn and burn and burn. I have to wonder whether or not you can say the same, although I suspect not.
Because, applied to software, you sound like the kind of guy who will claim that a problem doesn't exist (because you can't replicate it), until your coworkers find it and fix it for you.
You've never worked in software.
Those two stories are totally legit.
Of COURSE they're legit, who wouldn't believe baseless anecdotes spouted by an anonymous zealot on teh intarwebz. Perhap's you'd like the keys to my car while you're at it...?
Every male including myself knows that every female pretty much strolls online and gets harassed.
Aahahahaha! Hoo, go back to agitprop school champ, I'm going to share this with the very _very_ many women I know who are going to laugh even harder than me, at you.
If it's any comfort, you won't get to see the mockery.
Although I hope that in some weird spiritual way, you feel it.
In one place I worked, the CEO said they don't hire women because all they do is "sit around and look pretty, and hang out on facebook". At another, the director was worried about sexual harassment issues.
The problem isn't the workers, its the people doing the hiring, and the CEO's. I agree that women don't seem to be as interested in IT, but, with all due respect, there are serious problems in our industry, and you sir, are actually the one saying bullshit (but you might not realise it).
And yes, this is written by a guy. And no, I don't support everything women claims, but, the above is just my experience (its the side of the story which people like yourself may not hear about).
I call you a liar, fool and propagandist.
Er what? Have you seen the list of womens programmes funded by the US government?
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