Cygnia

Thanks for the kind words, Tasha.  This has been something that's been eating at me for a while now.

Wow, Thanks Cygnia for all of the articles. I thought I had found a new one to share and you posted it days ago LOL.

Sexual Harassment in Comics: The Tipping Point
 

Nerds and Male Privilege: Tess Fowler and Comic Harassment
 

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute...
 

And another new one up!
 
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0931.html

Sex, Gender, And The Comics Industry
 

Captain Julio Scoundrel!

Hyper Mode: Anita Sarkeesian vs. the World II 

Why defensive videogame fanbases display the exact same sensitivity they claim to abhorThere are several elements of predictable crowd behaviour when it comes to the highly anticipated launches of huge-budget videogames. First, the game is liable to receive generally high reviews, with minor variations among outlets. Second, the outliers on that narrow range will be subject to scrutiny – the perfect score must have been ‘bought by PR’, while the ‘half-point lower than the median’ score is a travesty whose text Internet commentators must analyse line by line to unveil certain discrepancy and conspiracy.
Beyond that, there are other certain triggers: if the outlying review score is written by a woman, the proportionate fervour increases. If the woman dislikes some element of the game readers can correlate to her gender – the portrayal of female characters in the game, to use an obvious example – that objection will become shorthand for her entire opinion, even if the review is generally good.
A release the size of Grand Theft Auto V is the perfect showcase for this reliable crowd behaviour, and the gaming community met its launch exactly as expected. Carolyn Petit’s disappointment with some of the game’s misogyny only moderately affected her highly scored Gamespot review, but attracted close to 20,000 comments, most of them outraged, some even abusive. Readers were so eager to disprove misogyny, or censure any complaint thereof, that they surely committed it.

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread
 
Oh hey, dealing with the in-laws for the holidays....time to overindulge in wine. WHY?~!?!?

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute...
 

How to Saber a Champagne Bottle
 

Asked last week by an earnest 22 year old: "What's the KGB?"

The 9 Most Expensive Junk Foods

Yeah, Mr. Scruffy's riding the T-Rex right along with Belkar.

Kgala is the word where the Kalahari desert got its name from, meaning "the great thirst". And this invisible entity can cause dehydration in mere seconds. No one knows who or what it could be or what its motivation is for working with this team but the others are savvy enough to not get Kgala mad at them. Its temper is as dangerously heated as its powers and it can strike suddenly. Those able to see the infra-red spectrum can detect the heat shimmer -- and that it's NOT in a humanoid shape.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0922.html
 
"OK, now I know we're doomed..."

All I'm saying is if you headshot the guy I'm possessing, a fruit basket and an apology would be nice afterwards...

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