Recent content by DefiantGoblin

The only thing that I'd hold as an absolute thing that puts me off would be smoking and swearing. I don't know why but I just hate hearing women swear, it just seems so common. It isn't sexist, I'm not too fond of men swearing either, and I can understand swearing in extreme circumstances I...

There are plenty of older female leads in big, successful films. Just look at Meryll Streep (The Iron Lady) and Dame Helen Mirren (The Queen. Both were the title role in critically acclaimed, award winning films and were also awarded for their performance.

3 of the four articles you posted were in relation to the Catholic view on Gay marriage. Taking into account that the Catholic church believe marriage to be a union under the eyes of God and also see homo-sexuality, as an act, to be a sin it is hardly unreasonable or homophobic of them to not...

Which goes to prove my point even further. These people are not representative of the church as a whole. I think it's wrong that whenever there's a story like this people seem to have the view of 'ooh typical christians,' when in actuality it is the far-right American's who are seemingly picking...

Granted, the Catholic church's ideology opposes Gay marriage but how often do you hear about Catholic's protesting about Gay people being considered equal - you don't. The Catholic church teaches to hate the sin and love the sinner and to not judge others. As far as media coverage is concerned...

These people aren't Christian and don't represent what the modern church is like in any way, shape or form. Most of the Western world are tolerant of homo-sexuality, it literally seems to be America that have a problem with it. It seems to me that whenever these groups do anything like this...

This just sounds like you've got makor self esteem issues. Nobody is perfect we all have flaws and things we dislike about ourselves - personally I'm quite self conscious about my teeth. The thing about appearance is that there is no such thing as normal or perfect and just because you don't...

A game's primary objective should be to entertain, anything else should be secondary. Ultimately I play games to be entertained so if I'm not entertained by a game chances are I won't stick with it. This is the same with books, an author can try to convey the most important of themes using as...

In found the thread about books that people read and didn't enjoy really interesting and was wondering, on a more positive note, what books people have read recently and really enjoyed. One of the last books I have read is Solar by Ian McEwan. I thought this was fantastically written, with...

The only thing I disagree with this is America's belief that they have the right to police the world. There was a post on here a few months back asking why the rest of the world hated America - why do you think? The rest of the world has to abide by numerous human rights laws and...

I can see why the second scenario is bad, but what if this was done with more tact and less hassle. For example, seeing someone who is not necessarily struggling with a box, but is clearly finding it a little difficult, and offering "may I help you with that?". Upon being told "no thank you...

I don't believe that being gentlemanly is sexist in the slightest. I'd never let the door shut in anybodies face and it's nearly always less effort for me to hold the door than it would be for the other person to hold it again. Granted, I may be inclined to hold the door longer for an elderly...

Cell by Stephen King. The metaphor of mobile phones turning people into brainless zombies and the development of this into zombies that had a pshycic link to demonstrate the positive idea of us being bettter connected was a fantastic idea it just didn't work in practice. Ultimately it was just...

This generations racism will be racism. As a society I think we're fairly tolerant but it's apparent from comments on news articles that people aren't fond of high immigration, due in-part to the being part of the EU, and that there is quite a bit of prejudice against both...

I don't agree with the company that runs this and the small percentage of donations that's actually put to use. I thought that I supported those who felt passionate enough to spread the message to get something done but on reflection I really, really don't. It seems that by spreading...