The degree to which the SJW crowd has to resort to increasingly-inflammatory headlines and articles gives me a lot of hope, because it indicates that the collective unconscious of the Internet really does have a funcitoning immune response that can limit the damaged caused by that particularly nasty virus.

Now if only the Internet had a functioning immune response to misogyny, bullying, sick rape fantasies and adolescent jerkoffs whose hobby is making other people's lives miserable.

But thank goodness we've stopped feminism in its tracks, huh?

Ha, so I dropped the terror word.

Bro mentality. You wonder how they figured out how to use a game controller.

That is what you would call your opinion. You're as welcome to it as those you disagree with.

I'm not sure what that little bon mot of moral equivalence is supposed to mean in this context. Do you have any reason to believe the person to whom you're responding doesn't realize that his opinion is his opinion? Or that he's welcome to it?

The fact is that not all opinions are equal or welcome. If your opinion is that women are to be treated like dirt in any online interaction, your opinion is pretty well fucked. And unfortunately, it only takes a handful of these to poison all online interactions between anyone, anywhere. There are a lot of people out here who have decided just to leave all multiplayer online games alone because so many gamers just don't know how to behave. It's absolutely reasonable to expect a commercial entity to make sure such interactions are kept safe for its customers. Women should be able to believe that they can go play a game without some greasy little pimply fucker to hassle her because she's female. Or anyone, for any reason.

This notion, that seems to be the subtext of your comment is that, "Hey it's free speech and I can be as big an asshole as I want and you can't do shit" is simply not true. If you're in a restaurant having a nice meal and some drunk frat boy comes over and starts pissing on your shoe, you have the right to ask the management to 86 them. In fact, if you take into consideration the fact that most of the other patrons would also like to have a nice quiet meal without anyone pissing on their shoes, you have the responsibility to go to the management and ask them to throw the guy out. Even if the guy isn't pissing on anyone's shoes, but is standing up make loud, rude comments to every female restaurant customer, he does not have any "right to free speech" in that situation.

So no, not all opinions are welcome if your opinion happens to be that all women deserve to be abused. Or that anyone deserves to be abused.

I never heard of any of this shit before today. Who and what are these people and why should I care? I don't get it.

You shouldn't care. Unfortunately, the people who should care do not. There is a lot of ugly misogyny in games. This is because such a large percentage of gamers are scumbags or young men who engage in the online equivalent of pulling a girl's pigtails because she makes them feel funny in the pants and they don't yet know why.

The problem is that, being online, there are no longer limits. If you're a woman gamer, and you don't respond to certain male gamers they way they want you to, you will get death threats, rape threats and doxxing. And it goes from 0-60 in nothing flat. Playing online games all day has left many of these young men completely without any sort of self-governance of their id. And people end up getting hurt. Sometimes in very real-world ways.

The fact that most games are written and told from an adolescent male point of view does not help. It creates a sort of greasy milieu where it's easy to believe that any behavior toward a woman is acceptable.

Lots of good gaming sites like Gamasutra are looking to include more female voices in coverage of games, because it turns out (much to our surprise) that there are actually women gaming out there and interestingly enough, they don't want to be treated like shit every single goddamn day of their lives. I don't know anything about these "gaters" (and when I google it I get a bunch of misspelled information about Florida college football) and I haven't read Gamasutra in a while (I don't see anything on their current front page that would indicate any striking feminist agenda at work). But I do know that Microsoft would throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar bump in stock price, so whatever the facts are in this story, there's a good chance that Microsoft is in the wrong. Because.

Could Maroney Be Prosecuted For Her Own Hacked Pictures?

I want to give this question careful consideration, so I'll get back to you after a more extensive examination of the photographs in question.

Dear Occam,

The simplest answer

Is usually right,

And historical behavior

Is a good predictor

of future behavior.

Burma-Shave

Start a club, and the whole world will join.

I can relate, in parts. To the anti-feminists, that is.

I'm sick and tired of getting feminism shoved down my throat absolutely everywhere. There's new laws, most companies have policies, our language is being policed for misunderstood "gender-equality" and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm in full support of women fighting actual oppression. If you can't vote just because you're female, I'm with you on that. If you can't drive a car because you're a female, I'm with you on that. If your boss tells you that short skirt is the appropriate dresscode, while he insists on long trousers for your male colleagues, I'm with you on that.
But the feminazis who insist that absolutely everything has to be exactly 50/50 male/female, then for all I care you can fuck off and die.
Also, let's be honest, many of the most vocal feminists quite publicly state that their goal is not 50/50, but female dominance.

Women in video games is one of the "soft topics". Yeah, it's ridiculous what armor female characters wear sometimes. But you're blind, deaf and stupid if you think it's a gender thing. Look at the male characters - they are all Schwarzeneggers, too. According to my female friends, I'm quite handsome, but most video game characters beat me hands down in both beauty and body shape. It's the same as in movies and magazines - we get idealized, unnaturally enhanced versions of humans.

Could video games improve their representation of women? Sure, they could. But the subject is by far not as simple and clear-cut as voting rights or such.

And frankly speaking, I play video games to relax and shut down. You could keep your politics out of my entertainment and work on improvements in the real world. You know, the one that matters.

To install unsigned apps, you have to disable Gatekeeper, with a warning about possible risk.

No, you don't. Just control-click in Finder, and choose "Open". That, unlike the normal double-click launch, bypasses Gatekeeper's prohibition on untrusted apps, instead presenting a security dialog that tells you that the app is untrusted, and asks you if you want to launch it anyway. If you tell it to do so, OS X computes a checksum for the app and adds hat signature to a list of trusted apps, ensuring that you won't be prompted about it in the future.

You might have to be in the "Mac App Store and identified developers" mode—I'm not sure.

Which basically means that Microsoft is selling a car without mirrors, brakes and seatbelts, but you have plenty of options buying one from a 3rd party. Provided you remember to do it...

Perhaps they do it professionally; and since people get sick of their jobs, perhaps some don't even like doing it.

...blaming Obama personally for the Secret Service being less than perfect.

I was disappointed a while back that that other distribution didn't go for "Kinky Koala".

Well, I think I lowered its chances of acceptance even more by posting it.

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