Feminism because why not make a thread for it?

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[Willem]

It's not sexism, it's economics => sexism

If we pretend women don't play those AAA games (they do), and if someone claims nobody wants to invest in AAA games that do appeal to women gamers, then that's sexism. It's sexism on part of the investors, regardless if they cover it up with return-on-investment bullshit. It's sexism because it doesn't even make any sense, because women do game and games aimed at them (too) are a huge gap in the market - a perfect investment opportunity.

It's also complete and utter bullshit because there are plenty of AAA games that aren't about war, cowboys, football and cars.
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[Sam]

Let's be honest though: Madden: Dawn of Warcowboy Theft Auto would be fucking awesome

[ShadowCell]

the one football game where, if Ndamukong Suh kicks you in the nuts, you can launch grenades at him

[Willem]

[Sam]

that's cissexist, check your privilege

oh also guess where's still a miserable shithole

http://www.news.com.au/world/wife-forced-to-remarry-hubbie-who-threw-acid-on-her/story-fndir2ev-1226525490341

[WheelsOfConfusion]

See, now THAT is sanctity of marriage! None of this wishy-washy-you-can-get-a-divorce stuff!

[Samsally]

I'm not sure how I feel about this article yet, other than that I feel it is extraordinarily relevant to the atmosphere in the comics sub-forum as of late.

It's about how emotional men can get.
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[Darqcyde]

Isn't "impulse shopping" also a result of using emotions over rational thought? I'm pretty sure that'd be one more in the "men showing" emotions column.
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[Samsally]

Oh well shit, if that counts then I'm still a big ol' pile of emotions.
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[Darqcyde]

Yeah, but if you were a guy, you'd statistically more likely to be engaging in even more impulse buying, so it's no biggie.
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[Eiden]

I got worried at Mansplaining (social justice warrior bingo power word) but my fears were unfounded and the article is sound in explaining a general concept.

[Eiden]

Speaking of which.

[Willem]

Here are some things I read in my paper today, which I thought were relevant to The Other Thread:

Every week, 56 rapes and 5 group-rapes occur in Belgium. Worldwide (I think), only 4% of the perpetrators are tried and convicted, according to the UN. According to the justice department, this is one in three in Belgium. Even though local hospitals are filling up with boxes of swabs from rape tests, two thirds of these are never analysed. This is due to the budget cuts the justice department is pushing through, which make analysing every sample impossible. Even though Belgium has a DNA-database, these samples are rarely if ever entered into it. This is partially due to the fact that only people who are convicted of five years or more jailtime get entered into the database - and you can see the problem right there. Not only are the samples taken from rape victims ignored, but seeing as most perpetrators get off with a couple of years suspended jailtime, that database is staying empty.

Fuck.
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