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This "large body of research" actually doesn't show that, when examined critically. The Conflict-Tactics-Scale has been very widely disputed by the professional research community and even the creators of these studies dispute the use of their work to reach a finding that domestic violence...

The fact that underclass men continue to hold the majority of the scraps even at that level is in fact considered part of the problem. It means that women at the lowest rungs of society have even less support or ability to escape an abusive relationship. Educate yourself, don't ask a woman...

Post a clip. Pics or GTFO. This is not actually a thing. Wow, what a complete and total misunderstanding of "feminism" or what the word actually means to people who use it. It's true that a lot of feminist discourse discusses issues of power through the term "patriarchy" but that's...

I really appreciate this column and agree with its points--engaging in dialogue about inclusion is important, and necessary, and must be done frequently because it is so easy for these issues to be brushed aside.

I really liked this article, it shows a lot of self-awareness about marketing and where it fails. In particular the comments on gender--since "fewer" girls play games, we can't vote with our dollars at all it seems; our preferences are simply not recorded for most games, or we get insulting...

I said poor characterization, but that includes awful dialogue in its way. If all the characters sound like the same bland weirdo in dialogue it's really hard to stay interested, and poor characterization tends to rely very hard on boring and conservative cliches.

Yes, most DLC is overpriced. Furthermore, most 'microtransaction' goods in MMOs are overpriced. You get very little value for what they want you to pay, and you can't re-sell or loan or give it away when you're done as you can with your physical discs. I've never bought a one so far, where I...

Oh, great, one incident where straight sexuality draws a tiny bit of finger-wagging (versus the specific singling out that the lesbian 'scene' got on national television, rather than being "glossed over" as you try to claim) and clearly discrimination against heterosexual sexuality is equal to...

I love the response to the not just request but demand that the author release their own work "without the gay." "Why should we?" is the most common response to the question of "Will you release a game with a gay protagonist?" put to most game developers. Usually it's followed up with "it...

WTF? Are you insane? Heterosexuals are not discriminated against in games. Most particularly heterosexual males. The characters who aren't shown as having an overt sexuality are assumed by pretty much everyone except people who pause to think for a second that they are straight...

Yeah, it's "their choice" to exclude GLBT stuff but it's still a dick move and extremely cowardly discrimination. That applies as much to the game as to idiot forum mods. Not having anything but white soldiers in 40K is pretty dickish too. Saying "it's just their choice" is enabling privilege...