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Haha, I don't.

Don't do that. I've spent like an hour looking, and I found a roundabout connecting Martin Luther Kingweg and Mahatma Gandhiweg, but it's named Rotonde Moeder Teresa. For real? I could have sworn it was the Gloria Steinem Rotonde. Must have been a roundabout or roadway somewhere else, not connected to those. I'm going to chalk it up to brainfart. To be fair, Mother Teresa does fit in with that list much better and I always did think it was ridiculous. Still, I was so certain. But fair enough, with that and 90% of members here not knowing who she is, I concede that Steinem is apparently not as well known as I previously thought. An hour, though?

Clearly you have never been to Battle.net

To be fair, he said this was a moderate place, not that he has a moderate viewpoint. To be even fairer, as someone who has been on the receiving ends of both extremes, Nonek is hella moderate.

Nutella's better, but it does have a purer chocolate flavour and a nice crunch.

For sprinkles?

I've only watched the first three episodes so far, but even the way it started was just so unexpected. And I love the way the theme song is something in-story.

It surprised us too. I located a couple of sources thanks to another member here (since 8chan is supposed to be anonymous, I won't identify him). KiA was pretty understanding, but 8chan... man, that place is not healthy.

To be fair, he's also an olympic champion. Says google. And I really only know that name because it is a brand of chocolate sprinkles. We put that on bread, because we're insane geniuses.

I was taught a lot more but that's about all I remember. That and there's something with... pirate mercenaries? At some point?

To be fair, other than Joan of Arc which I suppose could be considered feminist (I don't know how, but many people seem to think so) the women's liberation movement and related civil rights movements were literally the only feminism related thing that was actually discussed in my history books. It's not like I was taught about "patriarchy" or whatever. That's still something that only Tumblr and Twitter keep blathering on about. We spent a lot more time on black civil rights movements. I suppose the irony is that I can remember almost all history I was taught from prehistoric findings to egypt to vietnam (which was pretty much the last thing that was covered in my high school) but I can't remember a single bloody thing they tried to teach me about dutch history.

Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima's Silent Hills has been cancelled!

I probably should have added some smileys to that one.

Would that be related to age? That can't be it. I'm... only... 27... Oh god, am I old now? Is this what we've come to?

I'm seriously confused now. I have never mentioned Gloria Steinem and been met with a chorus of "who is that" and this is generally one of the smarter, more informed message boards I frequent.

Not even a mention? Feminism wasn't taught in any history class i've been to. It wasn't specifically that feminism was taught, the women's liberation movement was just covered as one of the many things characterizing hippies, civil rights movements and the 70's in general. (Oh yeah, Donna from That 70's Show also mentioned her pretty often to the point it became annoying). EDIT: I guess it could just be because my history book put much more time into the failures of the US such as Vietnam and the culture surrounding it? I guess across the ocean they prefer not to give Vietnam that much attention.

Holy hell, where did you people get educated? This is high school level history!

Malc, you're obviously just being a contrarian on purpose here. My point was not to illustrate that I heard about her because of that, because I did not. The only reason I remember it existing is because I knew who she was already, not the other way around. My point was that she is simply that well known. She was mentioned in my school's (not American) history book when talking about the 70s along with Vietnam and the hippies. She's consistently mentioned in popular culture, from All in the Family to the most recent mention I heard being last month in one of the last episodes of Parcs and Recreation. I don't actually have an issue with him not knowing, since nobody can know everything, but making grandstanding statements about "pshuh, arrogant americans thinking everything revolves around you" is extremely disingenuous considering how well-known she is. Especially considering I'm the one who brought her up in the first place. If you haven't at least heard of Gloria Steinem, you really don't know anything about feminism. Which is why it makes sense that Bruce doesn't know her. Seriously? Please provide a google maps (or similar) link. This I gotta see. Pass. I did make a mistake, she's the roundabout that seperates MLK and Ghandi. Our word for road is weg. If you want to put in the effort to search it up for yourself, go ahead, but posting a link to my hometown gets a bit too personal on the internet for me. I've no interest in giving GG or especially their opponents more information about me so they can contact my employers and try to get me fired.

Research is neccesary to know about Gloria Steinem? As far as I'm concerned, Gloria Steinem is common knowledge. There's a roadway named after her in my rural dutch hometown, right next to a roadway named after Martin Luther King seperated by a roundabout named after Ghandi.

Suffice it to say that I'm aware of the world beyond the US.

She's the closest thing the second wave of feminism had to a leader and is still highly influential. No offense, but we've had conversations on feminism in other threads, so it seems like you would have some fairly basic knowledge about it. Also:

Haha, well. I didn't mean that they called me that as a insult (although I'm sure they did) but that they immediately slapped labels on me. They were upset at me for wanting consistent terminology and clarity, considering that oppressive because you can't put real life into neat little boxes, and then proceeded to put me into neat little boxes. There is humor to be found in the fact that those boxes were ridiculously far off the mark, but I was mostly commenting on the the awful double-think.

I believe the only time I used my twitter account to literally post something to that effect is the "I support inclusivity and artisitc freedom, but I'm against biased media reporting" picture. Yet whenever I engaged people who attacked me without provocation in a respectful and reasonable manner I was still the bad guy. They attacked me, but I was sea-lioning. I wanted specific terminology to seperate consumer advocacy from editorial, and because of that I was being oppressive by putting people into simple boxes not befitting the real world, so they called me a conservative, an MRA and an American. The irony of some of "the narrative" is not lost on me because Leigh Alexander using her fanbase to dogpile you is exactly the same as Thunderf00t using his fanbase to dogpile you.

It wasn't the limerick debacle that caused it. I have no idea who received the lashings for that one, but I don't think it was the moderators (I think Tigranes caught a handful of flak for that, but nothing substantial). I'm assuming Sawyer took the brunt of that, but that is entirely an assumption since we very rarely interact with actual devs. I got it for when we timed out this thread (along with Fionavar whom was consistently assumed to be a woman for some reason), which I would say was a much less controversial decision. ****, that was bad and not acceptable in any way Best wishes though. Don't worry about it. It's not my first rodeo. They were pretty nasty but they weren't actually as nasty as when I made a case for Jar Jar Binks being a good character mishandled by George Lucas' bad writing and direction on a Star Wars board. Now those people, they scare me. History vindicated me, since Jar Jar's handling in Clone Wars seems to have been well received.