Feminism because why not make a thread for it?

Lasairfiona · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:30 am Post subject:

Why won't I use the term dudebro - its stupid. It doesn't sound insulting to those who are on the receiving end now. Social constructs the insult and this dudebro doesn't jump at me as something that will catch on.

Now, do I think that some sort of insulting word would be useful? Yeah, I kinda do. Would it be good? Um... no, not really. But maybe we don't have to be good to get to equality. It would look nicer but maybe history will whitewash any insult that is more eloquent than misogyny.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 5171 Location: No.

mostly 'dudebro' gets used as a collective term around here anyways

I can't think of any particular instance when anybody's been called a dudebro

except maybe once in real life, but that was by people unfamiliar with Sinfest and the connotations it gives the word and they were throwing around all those annoying words like "broski" and "broseph" etc
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Yinello · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 2638 Location: Behind you

I prefer the term shithead myself. But that's just me.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:58 am Post subject:

So any thoughts on this:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/post-operative-transgender-female-fighter-fallon-fox-license-031016168--mma.html
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Darqcyde · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:14 am Post subject:

In other news, the Arkansas legislative body plans to control women's bodies:

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Darqcyde · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:55 am Post subject:

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 12070 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Feminist Frequency just put up part 1 of their Tropes vs. Women in Video Games videos. It focuses on the Damsels in Distress trope.

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6314

I was super happy to see that. She does a fantastic job of laying out the problems, but also making it clear that you can still like something while being critical of it's problems.

I had no idea Mario 2 was never meant to be a Mario game at all... it was always one of my favorites because you could play as Peach.
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stripeypants · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:10 pm Post subject:

Darqcyde · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:43 pm Post subject:

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 12070 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Predictably, one of the forums I frequent (in fact where I got the link) had a thread full of guys complaining about the video and not getting it. Among the backlash was the old argument that women should just make the games they want and girls will buy it.
So this turned up.

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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6314

Yeah, I definitely knew it was a bit different, but it never occurred to me to really think harder about that. To be fair, I was pretty young at the time, lol, and once I got older it wasn't really the first thing on my mind by any stretch.

I should see if I can download it on the 3DS or something, that'd be fun to play through again.
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Tahpenes · Joined: 22 Jul 2012 Posts: 31

I <3 Feminist Frequency. You can definitely see that she's putting some of that Kickstarter money to use.