Tasha

I always thought the whole "cis" thing was just jargon made up lately by the gender/sex studies crowd to define variations of sexual self identity. (My understanding is that the word means your gender and your sex match up in your head. I could be wrong. (I'm also fairly certain that I'm a man trapped in a fat man's body. One of these days that fat bastard will let me out.)) I've seen it tossed around a bit in non-technical discussions, but just took it as some authors being pretentious. I've particularly seen it used in gender/sex related rants. Seems like it's pretty contained among certain crowds.
 
I've never considered it to be an attempt to infect day to day language with more political correctness. If I catch anyone doing that, I'll be sure to put a cis-shoe up their butt.
 
On the third hand, "cis" is a more polite word than "breeder." 

Oh, and, of course, there's just nasty trash talk as well ...
 
I wish I could say I was surprised by this news. The internet really has a gift for bringing jackholes out of the woodwork. I may think Fine is wrong, I may think he is an idiot, but death threats? Those that make them only succeed in falling into one of two categories for me...1) Psychopaths and 2) (The larger group) cowards who'd never have the nerve to say half of what they say online within actual punching distance

Actually most of that Misandrist stuff comes from a particularly nasty branch of 2nd wave Feminist Separatists, Now called TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). They are second wavers that see Misogyny in everything. The right wing has used that minor branch of Feminism to Tar all Feminists.
First Wave Feminists were all pretty darn welcoming of all women no matter what their history. Most Third Wavers are actually even more welcoming than the first wavers were.
 
Really the Majority of Feminists DO want to see true equality for all genders and Races.
 
There are plenty of people who wish that Media would present violence in a serious, tragic way that explores emotional and physical consequences. It intersects with Feminism because of the belief that American society's embracing the idea that violence is a good thing that has no consequence. When to the multitudes of victims of Domestic Abuse (male and female) that idea makes their life a living hell. Showing all sides of Violence and not just the big warhero who kills tons of people and doesn't have an concern in the world. As opposed to the soldiers of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afganistan and Iraq who are coming home with real mental issues including PTSD and aren't getting enough care because we think that real heroes can do all of that stuff without consequence to their psyche.

We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won't Do Anything About It
 

This simple cartoon shows what victim-blaming really looks like

I have never understood trolls. Why waste your time just to annoy another person? And I especially don't understand these kinds of trolls who go through a good deal of effort to mod the game for the big benefit of ruining someone else's experience. Surely they could be doing something more with their lives. 
 
La Rose. 

Personally, artists / business people are entitled to express political, religious, and social views both inside and outside of their work / product. The consumers and market are entitled to react to those views with their wallets and opinions. That's a personal decision an artist, entrepreneur, musician, writer, game-designer has to make -- and live with the consequences of. I do think, if the expression is outside of the work, that one might enjoy the work-product itself, but not every artists is able to separate the two -- and neither is every consumer. For instance, I detest Jack Nicholson yet enjoy watching him on film, but Tom Cruise -- the guy just creeps me out. I can't watch him without visions of him bouncing on Oprah's couch and screeching conjuring up while the word "clear" echoes in the recesses of my brain. If you put it out there, you own it.

Polarizing, she has been known to lead to eye rolling or foaming at the mouth rage.

On Being a ‘Girl Gamer’

Social Justice Warriors.  It is a disparaging term used to describe pretty much anyone who believes that women, minorities or members of the the LGBT community don't yet enjoy equal social status with white, hetrosexaul males.

I once participated in a game (at a con, not a group of friends), where one revolting 14 year old decided his character would kidnap and rape somebody.  The game master said okay, your character does whatever you want him to.  And then everybody else at the table worked together to stop his character and turn him in to the police. And the player wasn't invited to join any other games.
 
I hope that didn't come across as "not all men" or whatever. My point was that it wasn't just the creepy GM that was at fault there. Everyone else at the table needs to react the right way.  I'd like to think my reaction would be to have my character do terrible things to that nasty Mary Sue.

Yet again...
 
The nightmare is over: They're not coming for your games

Numbers Don’t Lie: Comic Con Sexual Harassment Is a Huge Problem
 

Actually most of that Misandrist stuff comes from a particularly nasty branch of 2nd wave Feminist Separatists, Now called TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). They are second wavers that see Misogyny in everything. The right wing has used that minor branch of Feminism to Tar all Feminists.
First Wave Feminists were all pretty darn welcoming of all women no matter what their history. Most Third Wavers are actually even more welcoming than the first wavers were.
 
Really the Majority of Feminists DO want to see true equality for all genders and Races.
 
There are plenty of people who wish that Media would present violence in a serious, tragic way that explores emotional and physical consequences. It intersects with Feminism because of the belief that American society's embracing the idea that violence is a good thing that has no consequence. When to the multitudes of victims of Domestic Abuse (male and female) that idea makes their life a living hell. Showing all sides of Violence and not just the big warhero who kills tons of people and doesn't have an concern in the world. As opposed to the soldiers of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afganistan and Iraq who are coming home with real mental issues including PTSD and aren't getting enough care because we think that real heroes can do all of that stuff without consequence to their psyche.

My first encounters with anyone who claimed to speak in a feminist voice were with those in that particularly unpleasant 2nd Wave segment. That was in 1974, I was 18, and starting my freshman year at U of Washington, and I'd been living on US military installations since I was 12. I kind of realized that I had not seen the full spectrum of a lot of voices during my upbringing, but otherwise had very little clue. 
The UW student paper that first quarter had a rather strange set-up. The paper came out four days a week (Tuesday through Friday), and there was a rotating editorship for the four days, with a different extremist editor grinding their own particular axe each day. The four groups were the way out there extreme Mexican student organization, the way out there extreme Black student organization, an uneasy cooperation between a couple of hard core communist student organizations (it was fun to watch when the (Stalinist) Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade had one of their periodic fallings-out with the (Trotskyite) Young Socialist Alliance, but I digress), and then someone speaking shrilly in that extreme 2nd-wave feminist separatist voice. I ought to have inferred from the context of being in there with the rest of that editorial rotation that the women's writer was just as whacked out as the others, but it took a while for that perpective to dawn on me.
 
Anyway, for the kid who was looking for some voices that one did not encounter at all on the Air Force SAC base, it was kind of like drinking from a fire hose. Being from a rather sheltered (in this sense) environment, and an utterly clueless absurdly white anglo straight male (I have posted this before on these boards ... not only am I descended from a passenger of the Mayflower, I am descended from the only passenger of the Mayflower to be subsequently executed for homicide) ... there wasn't a whole lot in those editorial pages that I could even parse, let alone sympathize with. It was all [understatement]a bit too strident[/understatement]. I did realize that the individual writers (who were, of course, also students, and whose writing styles were not, shall we say, fully polished) were unlikely to be fully representative voices for their movements, but then tripping over my second quarter of calculus and getting the only C of my academic career shocked me into doing more studying and less editorial reading.
 
Anyway, it took the better part of a decade for me to look again for voices claiming to be feminist, at which point I learned that the militant separatist view was not necessarily representative of the whole movement. Life is better now.

Actually most of that Misandrist stuff comes from a particularly nasty branch of 2nd wave Feminist Separatists, Now called TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). They are second wavers that see Misogyny in everything. The right wing has used that minor branch of Feminism to Tar all Feminists.
First Wave Feminists were all pretty darn welcoming of all women no matter what their history. Most Third Wavers are actually even more welcoming than the first wavers were.
 
Really the Majority of Feminists DO want to see true equality for all genders and Races.
 
There are plenty of people who wish that Media would present violence in a serious, tragic way that explores emotional and physical consequences. It intersects with Feminism because of the belief that American society's embracing the idea that violence is a good thing that has no consequence. When to the multitudes of victims of Domestic Abuse (male and female) that idea makes their life a living hell. Showing all sides of Violence and not just the big warhero who kills tons of people and doesn't have an concern in the world. As opposed to the soldiers of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afganistan and Iraq who are coming home with real mental issues including PTSD and aren't getting enough care because we think that real heroes can do all of that stuff without consequence to their psyche.

Actually most of that Misandrist stuff comes from a particularly nasty branch of 2nd wave Feminist Separatists, Now called TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). They are second wavers that see Misogyny in everything. The right wing has used that minor branch of Feminism to Tar all Feminists.
First Wave Feminists were all pretty darn welcoming of all women no matter what their history. Most Third Wavers are actually even more welcoming than the first wavers were.
 
Really the Majority of Feminists DO want to see true equality for all genders and Races.
 
There are plenty of people who wish that Media would present violence in a serious, tragic way that explores emotional and physical consequences. It intersects with Feminism because of the belief that American society's embracing the idea that violence is a good thing that has no consequence. When to the multitudes of victims of Domestic Abuse (male and female) that idea makes their life a living hell. Showing all sides of Violence and not just the big warhero who kills tons of people and doesn't have an concern in the world. As opposed to the soldiers of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afganistan and Iraq who are coming home with real mental issues including PTSD and aren't getting enough care because we think that real heroes can do all of that stuff without consequence to their psyche.

This is one reason I like the Clint Eastwood western "Unforgiven." The movie deconstructs the heroic consequence-free violence quite thoroughly.
 
"It's a hell of a thing to kill a man."

Actually most of that Misandrist stuff comes from a particularly nasty branch of 2nd wave Feminist Separatists, Now called TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). They are second wavers that see Misogyny in everything. The right wing has used that minor branch of Feminism to Tar all Feminists.
First Wave Feminists were all pretty darn welcoming of all women no matter what their history. Most Third Wavers are actually even more welcoming than the first wavers were.
 
Really the Majority of Feminists DO want to see true equality for all genders and Races.
 
There are plenty of people who wish that Media would present violence in a serious, tragic way that explores emotional and physical consequences. It intersects with Feminism because of the belief that American society's embracing the idea that violence is a good thing that has no consequence. When to the multitudes of victims of Domestic Abuse (male and female) that idea makes their life a living hell. Showing all sides of Violence and not just the big warhero who kills tons of people and doesn't have an concern in the world. As opposed to the soldiers of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afganistan and Iraq who are coming home with real mental issues including PTSD and aren't getting enough care because we think that real heroes can do all of that stuff without consequence to their psyche.

The Diversity Question    

I still say I'd love to watch a debate on feminism and porn between Dave Willis and Tatsuya Ishida.

Attack of the purse snatchers: gender and bag policies in U.S. comic book stores

*facepalm to Finland*
 
Hearthstone tournament explains why women aren't allowed to play [updated]

No-one Is Coming To Take Away Your Sh***y Toys