If roles were reversed it would have been over in a minute. But not because of the gender reversal. It would have been over immediately because there would have been no concentrated effort to censor the topic. That is the only reason this whole thing blew up like it did. There is no better way to get people to talk about something then to tell them they aren't allowed.
No one went after other women because of the scandal. There were, however, some other women that injected themselves into the discussion.
No it is not a known lie. Repeating that enough doesn't make it true. The two of them had a very friendly relationship. She got positive media coverage for a game that would have been completely ignored otherwise (or "press" as you call it). Around the very same time (within weeks) they were sleeping together. Most people would criticize that.
No they did not. They are still made and used. The type of warfare is what made them less common in actual fights. And it was rapid-fire weapons that made the bayonet charge less effective and had nothing to do with semi-auto.
"Easy" is fairly relative here. It is pretty hard to defend yourself from a knife if you are unarmed. So yes- stabbing someone to death is "easy" in that aspect. You have to be closer with a knife than a gun so "harder" in that aspect. You can grab a gun from someone. Grabbing a knife is much harder. There is little struggle in stabbing an unarmed person- even less an unarmed, untrained child. I think you are confused at what i knife is. They are sharp so that they can cut and puncture things with little strength.
Knifes inflict terrible wounds. If gun was always superior to knife bayonets wouldn't be a thing.
Haha you're right. I thought he was making fun of the fact that people seem to think that the only reason to criticize some of these women is because they are women. It seems you both seem to ascribe all criticism to that. I didn't think two people could mock sophistry while also simultaneously defending it. Poe's law indeed.
You will burn muscle doing that as well. Strength training will increase your metabolic rate and how many calories you use in a day. (Really it depends on where you're coming from and what your goal is.)
The problem is really that it takes cardio, strength, interval training and diet to actually get the results people want.
When the goal is personal knowledge you can leave human competitive drive to push students forward. When 99% of education is to compete in the job market people will minimize effort while maximizing job prospects. Hence cheating.
Jogging really doesn't use that many calories; our bodies are extremely efficient at it. It is still great for your health but if your goal is to burn calories you will do much better at a gym doing weight training or some such.
I would suggest comparing violence today with 50 years ago.
I would actually suggest that you do that. The violence and murder rates have been going down since the advent of "realistic" violence you cite. Kind of puts a damper on your whole hypothesis IMHO.
The industry has never done that. There are prominent women in game development and they were never shut out or shat upon. She is required to be fair and balanced in her hiring because of the law. You can't complain about discrimination while discriminating worse than those you are accusing.
Unfortunately there always is someone that stupid. And they are incredibly useful to people that like to use the victim card. I do not think the people threatening Wu care at all about what she has to say. They only care that their threat will be made into a big deal.
Although I wouldn't find it incredible that Wu made a threat to herself- she throws off a lot of behavioral red-flags to me- I do not believe that she did send any to herself. I don't think she would have to. Because of the media circus surrounding this whole thing all she had to do was publicly announce the threats were a huge deal and the trolls knew for certain she would broadcast everything they said.
You have one group that claims to be criticized due to misogyny, one group that says the first is full of shit, and more groups trying to get a reaction out of the previous two groups.
Which group feels they shouldn't be criticized? Which group wants the other "silenced"? Congrats on conflating all "other" groups as one and successfully setting a Kafkatrap.
Most people want Sarkeesian silenced like they wanted Jack Thompson silenced. An annoyance that is louder than it has any reason to be.
Completely ignoring what someone said and strawmaning it into something else is evidence of cognitive dissonance.
"Here's my experience" is one thing. "My experience is fact and here is what you have to do to fix it or you are a bad person" is something else entirely.
How many times does this have to be spelt out to you imbeciles? No one is saying it is acceptable behaviour. Neither me, she nor you can control the trolls so the best action is to simply not give them what they want. Why does "don't feed the trolls" fly out the window as soon as a woman is involved? Continuous national coverage for 30 seconds of typing. Anybody that has ever dealt with trolls knows they wouldn't be able to resist that.
Trolls are fucked up. No one is condoning their behaviour. We all want them gone and, unlike Wu, we know how to stop encouraging them.
That is how it works. If you continuously do something that gets you victimized the police will tell you to stop doing it. If I leave my car unlocked with my wallet on the seat the police will take my statement and tell me not to do it again. The fifth time it happens they're going to be trying to find an ulterior motive for why I am continuously victimizing myself. And before you go off about losing a wallet is different from Internet threats you are right. One actually has a loss. The other is just words on the Internet that have a snowballs chance in hell of coming to something.
There has been no violence or assault. Stop with the hyperbole.
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If roles were reversed it would have been over in a minute. But not because of the gender reversal. It would have been over immediately because there would have been no concentrated effort to censor the topic. That is the only reason this whole thing blew up like it did. There is no better way to get people to talk about something then to tell them they aren't allowed.
No one went after other women because of the scandal. There were, however, some other women that injected themselves into the discussion.
No it is not a known lie. Repeating that enough doesn't make it true. The two of them had a very friendly relationship. She got positive media coverage for a game that would have been completely ignored otherwise (or "press" as you call it). Around the very same time (within weeks) they were sleeping together. Most people would criticize that.
Every time you're not benevolently sexist enough*
"SJW"s get their bad rep not for being egalitarian but for demanding benevolent sexism and decrying anything less than that as hatred of women.
That's a pretty worthless analogy. If i wanted to kill someone with a car does it matter if I use a Ferrari or a Pinto? Not to the dead person.
Yes, that is exactly the attitude that prevents these issues from ever being addressed or helped.
No they did not. They are still made and used. The type of warfare is what made them less common in actual fights. And it was rapid-fire weapons that made the bayonet charge less effective and had nothing to do with semi-auto.
When I was in highschool they had a TV in some hallway for "Announcements" and what not. You better believe I kept my SNES in my locker.
"Easy" is fairly relative here. It is pretty hard to defend yourself from a knife if you are unarmed. So yes- stabbing someone to death is "easy" in that aspect. You have to be closer with a knife than a gun so "harder" in that aspect. You can grab a gun from someone. Grabbing a knife is much harder. There is little struggle in stabbing an unarmed person- even less an unarmed, untrained child. I think you are confused at what i knife is. They are sharp so that they can cut and puncture things with little strength.
Knifes inflict terrible wounds. If gun was always superior to knife bayonets wouldn't be a thing.
Haha you're right. I thought he was making fun of the fact that people seem to think that the only reason to criticize some of these women is because they are women. It seems you both seem to ascribe all criticism to that. I didn't think two people could mock sophistry while also simultaneously defending it. Poe's law indeed.
Whoosh.
A guy was angry about getting cheated on and manipulated? What an asshole!
I think it has a little to do with calorie burn.
You will burn muscle doing that as well. Strength training will increase your metabolic rate and how many calories you use in a day. (Really it depends on where you're coming from and what your goal is.)
The problem is really that it takes cardio, strength, interval training and diet to actually get the results people want.
When the goal is personal knowledge you can leave human competitive drive to push students forward. When 99% of education is to compete in the job market people will minimize effort while maximizing job prospects. Hence cheating.
Jogging really doesn't use that many calories; our bodies are extremely efficient at it. It is still great for your health but if your goal is to burn calories you will do much better at a gym doing weight training or some such.
Are you sure you are not missing a source of calories? Because that sounds dangerously low for a person your size.
I would suggest comparing violence today with 50 years ago.
I would actually suggest that you do that. The violence and murder rates have been going down since the advent of "realistic" violence you cite. Kind of puts a damper on your whole hypothesis IMHO.
The industry has never done that. There are prominent women in game development and they were never shut out or shat upon. She is required to be fair and balanced in her hiring because of the law. You can't complain about discrimination while discriminating worse than those you are accusing.
Unfortunately there always is someone that stupid. And they are incredibly useful to people that like to use the victim card. I do not think the people threatening Wu care at all about what she has to say. They only care that their threat will be made into a big deal.
Although I wouldn't find it incredible that Wu made a threat to herself- she throws off a lot of behavioral red-flags to me- I do not believe that she did send any to herself. I don't think she would have to. Because of the media circus surrounding this whole thing all she had to do was publicly announce the threats were a huge deal and the trolls knew for certain she would broadcast everything they said.
If you can't grasp the fact that no one here is saying that death threats aren't wrong you are probably being purposefully obtuse.
It's not a consensus when you categorically reject any opinion that doesn't conform to your own as "shitty".
You have one group that claims to be criticized due to misogyny, one group that says the first is full of shit, and more groups trying to get a reaction out of the previous two groups.
Which group feels they shouldn't be criticized? Which group wants the other "silenced"? Congrats on conflating all "other" groups as one and successfully setting a Kafkatrap.
Most people want Sarkeesian silenced like they wanted Jack Thompson silenced. An annoyance that is louder than it has any reason to be.
Don't get any straw in your eye there dude.
Completely ignoring what someone said and strawmaning it into something else is evidence of cognitive dissonance.
"Here's my experience" is one thing. "My experience is fact and here is what you have to do to fix it or you are a bad person" is something else entirely.
How many times does this have to be spelt out to you imbeciles? No one is saying it is acceptable behaviour. Neither me, she nor you can control the trolls so the best action is to simply not give them what they want. Why does "don't feed the trolls" fly out the window as soon as a woman is involved? Continuous national coverage for 30 seconds of typing. Anybody that has ever dealt with trolls knows they wouldn't be able to resist that.
Trolls are fucked up. No one is condoning their behaviour. We all want them gone and, unlike Wu, we know how to stop encouraging them.
That is how it works. If you continuously do something that gets you victimized the police will tell you to stop doing it. If I leave my car unlocked with my wallet on the seat the police will take my statement and tell me not to do it again. The fifth time it happens they're going to be trying to find an ulterior motive for why I am continuously victimizing myself. And before you go off about losing a wallet is different from Internet threats you are right. One actually has a loss. The other is just words on the Internet that have a snowballs chance in hell of coming to something.
There has been no violence or assault. Stop with the hyperbole.