Blarghagh

Googling "Witcher SJW backlash" gets me nowhere.

I don't. He's rich. That's fair.

Yes, that's my view as well. A couple of years ago my girlfriend nearly died from an ectopic pregnancy and fell into depression for a long time after that partially due to the physical reaction of the hormones resetting and rebalancing themselves, so I am very aware of how fertility issues affect real women and I consider shaming women for naturally feeling that way to be much more offensive than anything on that list. In fact, if someone were to call my girlfriend sexist for having been depressed about it to my face, I'm not sure I would be able to stop myself from seriously hurting them.

Warning, this post goes into possible SPOILERS about a movie that's barely out. That is one of the reasons, yes - I feel Boogie hasn't looked into it very long, since I've heard more complaints. Here's the objections I've heard so far. - Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she cannot have children, which exploits female emotional pain. - Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she cannot have children, this demeans women by implying their worth is in childbearing. - Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she cannot have children, this is transmisogynistic because transgender women cannot have children by default. - Black Widow falls for "a nice guy" with "anger issues" and says she loves him because at his core he is a nice guy, which is supposedly a representation of women abused by their significant others. - Black Widow gets captured and is rescued by a man. - Black Widow gets upset when a man she loves leaves her behind. - Black Widow black widow black widow. - Black Widow is portrayed as helping the men rather than being a hero in her own right. - Black Widow is called upon to be the caregiver that calms down the Hulk via maternal behaviour. - Black Widow sideboob, exploitation, duh. - Black Widow tight uncomfortable form fitting leather suit, exploitation, duh. - Scarlet Witch is portrayed as needing a man (her brother) to protect her in an "owning way". - The male characters (Iron Man and Thor in this case) brag about which trophy wife is superior. - Iron Man, at one point, jokes about bringing back Prima Nocta. This is, apparently, a rape joke. - Last but not least, the heroes engage in masculine conflict resolution reinforcing patriarchy. Writing the word Widow so often makes the word look odd, like I'm suddenly more aware of the shape of the word than the meaning. These are the complaints I read, 90% of which are deliberately negative interpretations or blatant lies and the rest is just nonsense or overreacting. I feel bad for the guy, nobody deserves this amount of online abuse. It's funny that some news sites report it as "bullied by feminists is just a narrative, these are just anonymous internet trolls" yet if it was anyone else they wouldn't have hesitated to label them a hate group (something Joss himself was guilty of, referring to GG as "KKK Daycare"). There's a little sense of poetry to it, not only because of his earlier stances, but also considering he recently dogpiled the creators of Jurassic World on twitter by bashing it for being "70's era sexist". But either way, it still sucks and just goes to prove that that they eat their own. Another thing Boogie tweeted about sums it up (paraphrased): If Joss Whedon wasn't enough of a feminist for you then your standards might very well be impossible for a man to achieve. By design.

Language warning.

They're rallying. They're rallying to their king!

What the **** was that. EDIT: Why do Korean and Japanese artists/cartoonists so often choose to make their characters look white/Caucasian? Honest question. (This is, after all, the "weird & random" thread ) They don't. They way they visualized themselves in art is just similar to the way we visualized ourselves in art. It's coincidental.

Ok you named BG2. That is one. Which are the other RPGs? I mean both DA2 and DAI had more options for women. None of the ME games had more options for men. Ok I think there were a few more for men in ME3 so that is two (maybe there were a ton for either gender). Neither of the KOTOR games gave more options for men. So how is this rare? Granted not every RPG with romances is made by Bioware but they are the standard for this sort of thing. I am not claiming you are wrong just...I have no clue where you are coming from here. You know, you are absolutely right. For some reason that was just a feeling that stuck in my mind from Infinity Engine games, but BG2 is really the only one that has romances. Unless you count Planescape Torment, but I don't know how you could count that. Checking it, it looks like I got that entirely wrong.

Haha, that's maybe 12% of the reason. Obsidian should give him a sympathy call, because I'm seeing the word transmisogynistic thrown around more times than I can count. Also referencing prima nocta as a joke counts as "legitimizing modern day rape culture".

I don't know if this is why he removed his Twitter account, but I am finding a load of evidence of criticism and abuse by the feminist community. Apparently they are pissed about a sneaky rape joke and Black Widow's character development.

yes on April 29 I've asked him and he said he was looking into it. Don't have anything else to tell you, I'm afraid.

Yeah, I can't find any sources at all.

Omigosh I'm so excited, there was a voice of reason in the debate.

With the release of PoE, people will no longer make a million posts demanding romance (since the game is out, there'd be no point) so we've lifted the ban on romance threads.

That sounds pretty accurate.

If that were the case I believe this would be the rare RPG with more options for women than for men (as stated, BG2 only had Anomen...) because I assume they would be able to choose Edér and Aloth at the very least (those seem to be the kind of options that fit in with traditional RPG romances) yet the only woman that I feel leaves room open for romance would be Pallegina. Grieving Mother seems too out-there.

Did you contact Fionavar?

Oh! I didn't see the real article. Thanks.

Can someone tell me the joke? I get all the tongue-in-cheeck roasting of Sarkeesian, but did those threats not actually happen or something?

That's an interesting thing to think about. Would I be willing to die for Wilders? Hmm, I guess I fail as a human being because my answer is "Hmm, nope!" By the way, I don't think Wilders is an idiot, I actually think he is a very cunning man. He knows exactly what he wants, and how to achieve it. He is a master of provokation, who knows exactly how to play his game. And that's my problem. It's not that I feel we should be sensitive to fanatics who will probably always find some reason to go around causing mayhem anyway, it's the cynical use of free speech by people like Wilders to put an aura of sainthood around themselves while other people suffer from it that gets under my skin. Dying for Wilders... I can just imagine it. His cynical PR machine would end up declaring me a martyr for his cause. Yuck. To be fair, I will defend his right to free speech to the death. I'm not sure I would be called upon to defend him. I also didn't say he was an idiot. I just said he says idiotic things, knowing full well his following, which does consist out of idiots, will swallow it up like the idiots they are. He's learned his lessons from Hitler well.

I just wanted to pipe in here because you said "ask the Dutch" about Wilders. I'm deliberately going into Godwin's law here - this is a man who is actively trying (though failing) to emulate Hitler. His entire strategy is to exploit existing feelings of xenophobia and social inequality by scapegoating an entire religious group for those problems, gaining the support of the scared, disillusioned and uneducated morons of which there are surprisingly many, sometimes whipping his following into a frenzy using racist mantras. I will mercilessly ridicule the bleached haired racist and anyone who votes for him. Yet, I will defend his freedom of speech to say the stupid nonsense he says to the death and so should everyone else. Because if you don't, who is going to be left to stand up when you are the one they want to silence? The solution here is to educate people so they won't be goddamned idiots, not to shut the goddamned idiots up. As for this being art or not, one of the purposes of art is to push against boundaries and I would say that is exactly what this is doing. Any other discussion is fairly pointless considering how nebulous the concept of art really is. Either way, there is a matter of principle to me that if what these terrorists want to do is silence these by violence or the threat thereof they should on no account be allowed to succeed. There should be more of these shows just out of principle. What there shouldn't be is discussions where people, in this case yourself, are arguing that threatening violence to silence people should ****ing work. I believe the quote goes something like this:

The second one doesn't feel that way to me. In fact, that entire movie can be summed up with "America sure ain't what it used to be" with allegorical criticism of corrupt politicians, America's status as "world police", the fall of SHIELD as analogue to the hidden evil in the CIA and NSA and it even pokes a stick at drone warfare on steroids.

Captain America 1 was okay, just a bit of Superhero Indiana Jonesing with a pretty exaggerated adventure movie view of WWII. Captain America 2 on the other hand kinda bashed America more than this forum does - all the threats come from inside. Also, I'm not American.

Then you use it to bomb third world countries.