Recent content by oreso

Two things. 1. Organising people and raising awareness are legit activities when most folk aren't aware of your issues; or your issues are continually misrepresented by mainstream media. Sure, a lot of people are just complaining, but a lot of that talking is pretty vital to work out...

Checking the 'About' page of Return of Kings is not hard. Neither is Googling "MRA Return of Kings". Doing either will reveal that they are explicitly anti-MRA. I don't really wanna give them the traffic, but here it is spoilered if you wanna: They're not interested in rights at all, as...

I'm more concerned with the working conditions of the clothing industry than I am with the sexy media industry. There's no reason why we can't demand ethical standards for both though, of course. I'm just a bit skeptical of folks who only crusade on the sex industry; it's probably unfair, but it...

*ring ring* Hey! Liberal left-wing Europe? How's it going? Yeah? Awesome. Well, uh... the religious right-wing called, they want their moral policing back. Yeah. Turns out, telling people what they should like is kinda their thing. Yeah. You're kinda in people's front rooms telling them...

I hate puritanism and shaming too. "This is lazy and dumb" is a different criticism to "This is sexist" One is an aesthetic argument, one is a moral one. You can say the former as much as you like, and I'll probably agree. You can say the latter as much as you like too, but I'll...

This is a good answer. Vincent Baker writes games with the best GM advice (Dogs in the Vineyard [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_the_Vineyard] in particular) and writes systems which really allows strong GMing to shine. Whereas other systems seem to expect GMs to be ninja masters who know...

'Continuation of identity' is an odd thing, since we don't actually seem to possess it. I have regular breaks in my consciousness, my memories, etc. Every time I sleep, drink heavily or just forget stuff, as well as the couple of times I've been knocked unconscious. If you believe...

Transhumanism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism] (post-singularity [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity] human social and political development) Linguistics (practical teaching methods such as Dogme; to proto-indo-european...

Iron Man 3 was solidly good. I'll echo that the twist was genuinely unexpected and actually fits the movieverse very well. I kinda don't want them to do any more Iron Man movies for a while though; the series has really shown Stark grow as a character and I dunno where else they could take him...

I think you might be moving the goal posts a little here. My claim was not that "politicians aren't sexist", nor that "sexism plays no part in party politics". In fact, I believe both of those claims are false, and I most certainly do believe sexism is an issue. I'm puzzled how you were...

Do you really think such a situation is credible in this case? Given the number of women at every level of government, and the support that Diane Abbott did in fact receive with nominations from several cabinet members, I cannot help but feel you're appealing to a conspiracy theory here. For...

Ah, I'm sorry, I thought I made that clear originally: In the leadership election, there's no procedure by which the decisions of others can stop you from putting your name forward. You simply have to decide to do so.

Yes. ^_^ During the recent campaign to get a woman on English bank notes, I did find it amusing that no one had thought to turn those bank notes over. ^_^ I do believe that Jane Austen is as good a choice as any though.

Perhaps the percentage analogy isn't the best. Discrimination isn't a general malaise, but specific acts of injustice where people have been unfairly targeted because of their gender et al, and obviously each one of those acts is a problem. I'm sorry to repeat myself, but I would propose that we...