Recent content by WitherVoice

I'm a bit confused. I get why she'd highlight the dumb ones going "shut up" and stuff like that. The "they don't sell" crowd may have a point, but that's a whole chicken/egg argument that she'd win easy. Lots of stupidity on display there. What I don't get is why her "omg look at the hateful...

This one was much better than the previous one.

I find your example odd. First off, a phobia is not "having any negative emotion about", it's "a persistent, irrational fear of". Second, the case for a heterosexual male wanting to take at least minor steps to avoid seeing male homosexual behaviour is pretty simple. Empathy allows the...

At a guess, you have discovered that rare, magical mental trick some people have that just because you agree with a viewpoint you can still disagree with some of the argumentation for the viewpoint. It ties into the "we have idiots on this side too" school of thought. Not to be confused with the...

I find this a great example of something I don't understand... taking anecdotal "evidence" of an extremely skewed sample as proof of something. I remember someone working at a center for abused women telling me about how all men were evil, and I had a hard time swallowing that statement, too...

Agreed, and yet... it is a masterpiece compared to the reboot :P

I didn't know people thought this one was so terrible. I have watched every F13 and Nightmare movie, and while they are enjoyable they aren't... you know... GOOD MOVIES. They serve their function well enough, some a LOT more than others. If you expect something OTHER than what the series have...

Let's have a vote on that one. To me, they clearly looked like large, slice-and-dice implements extended from a hidden position.

Like someone would come around to TAKE your guns. Like they can afford to send people around to COLLECT all the stupid fucking chunks of metal. If the US gov't passes gun control laws, at MOST this will mean that having an illegal gun would be a problem if you happen to come under police...

Sadistic pleasure, surely? It's all reprehensible at every angle. In the book (not seen movie) the POINT of the exercise is simple enough to understand... Miss Salander distrusts everyone, in particular authority figures. This particular authority figure is her legal guardian, and having him...

*scratch beard, look up and to the right in contemplation* Video games about rape? Yea no, I can't imagine there's a story I need to experience there, nor game mechanics that can only be expressed that way, nor... any other reason that we need this. I just don't. Still, I'm a bit torn -...

Depends. Most people have no idea how to throw a punch. If she does, her first punch is likely to drop me; if it gets close to that, I'll fight for my life. If she can't manage to harm me, I don't care and will block her punches and push her aside to get some distance and try to resolve the...

I'm starting to feel like we're hitting the same wavelength here :) So what we want is better-written characters in general, no? Men and women? I'll drink to that. But where do such characters live? A bargain has to be struck between normal enough to be well-rounded and compelling, and...

*sigh* I checked out Tropes vs Women and some more of Sarkeesian's videos... what to say? Her making videos? I have no problem with this. She sees something that needs comment, she comments. Good thing. Her asking/getting money to do it more? Well, a man, or woman, has got to eat, right...

No, as mentioned, "normal" would be dead. If determination is his only "special" trait then it is ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL. Also: "Badass Normal" is "normal" in name only, the "badass" portion overrules, cancels and shoots the "normal" into space.