There are cis men that crossdress without being trans.

That’s why I said “if Trump was able to” and not “when Trump pardons them”.

Tbf it’s still really frustrating that people can’t help but target women in this way no matter how many warnings or punishment or altering of behavior there may be.

I can personally confirm that these opinions do not live online only.

"Now, none of these criticisms individually proves that somebody hates women. You can hate Lucia as a character. You can prefer male protagonists. You can think a female character is unrealistically strong. You can hate girl boss writing. None of that automatically makes you misogynistic. But when every woman is too powerful, every female character is DEI, every man who respects a woman is emasculated, every female developer is responsible for something becoming worse, and every piece of media that starts appealing to women has been taken over. I’m allowed to notice the pattern. And maybe I’m more sensitive to this because I’ve spent my entire life and career in gaming.

When I started making gaming content, this space was overwhelmingly male. It’s one of the biggest reasons why I decided to make this channel. Women have always played games. There were just fewer of us, and the culture wasn’t always particularly welcoming when we did show up. We were called fake gamers. We only played games to get attention. The games we did like weren’t real games. We weren’t funny. We weren’t good enough. If we were successful, it was because men watched us because we were women. And things did feel like they got better for a little while. But lately, I feel like this is all coming back into mainstream internet culture,
just using different vocabulary. Now, you’re not saying women don’t belong here. You’re saying DEI ruin this. You’re not saying I don’t want a female protagonist, or maybe some of you are. You’re saying I’m tired of girl bosses. You’re not saying women shouldn’t have power. You’re saying they’re emasculating the male characters. And sometimes those criticisms are legitimate, but sometimes it’s just resentment toward women, just with some better branding now. And I think women like myself need to start being willing to say that out loud, even if it’s scary.

Like, I’ll be honest, I’ve been terrified to make this video. I’ve been scripting it for over a week because I know some of the kinds of people that it’s going to attract into my comment section, but I am so so tired of just standing by and letting these other just ragebait voices be amplified because we’ve built an internet economy where telling young men that women are ruining their lives and telling women that all men are horrible gets clicks. So, here’s my question to all of those people who said that GTA 6 looks like feminist slop already:

What kind of woman in gaming are you actually okay with?

Lucia is weaker than Jason, less important than Jason, less assertive than Jason, would that be acceptable? Because if that’s the only kind of female character you’re comfortable with, then we’re not debating character development anymore. We’re debating where women belong. And I’m not interested in negotiating that. Women don’t need to make ourselves feel smaller so that men can feel masculine. A woman succeeding doesn’t mean a man failed. A woman being strong doesn’t make a man weak. A woman having power isn’t inherently feminist propaganda. And a man loving, respecting, or compromising with a woman doesn’t make him less of a man. If your masculinity requires the woman standing next to you to either have less power than you or to not exist at all there, she isn’t the one making you look weak. So maybe GTA 6 comes out and Lucia is the worst character. Maybe Jason is the worst character. Maybe Rockstar completely ruins GTA. I don’t need Lucia to be a good character because she’s a woman. I just want her to be a good character so the game is fun. But I’m also not going to sit here and pretend the reaction that we’re seeing exists entirely because everybody has suddenly become deeply concerned with rock stars writing."

Asking again for sex after the first no is coercion. It is not consent-respecting.

No one, including the studies authors, are claiming all men are rapists.

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I guess he can empathize with rapists.

People are getting uneasy about the mob justice on this case already - that would be disastrous if Trump was able to pardon these rapists.

Central park five

I know you know the differences, but to spell it out it’s because the Central Park 5 are innocent and also men of color.

Vote, vote, vote!!

They’re going to do it after the midterms regardless. Punish them NOW:

But administration officials have also informed anti-abortion leaders, who have aggressively pressed the administration to move quickly to restrict abortion access, that any action on abortion would take place after the midterm elections, multiple sources told The Sun.

“Once the midterms are over and it’s truly lame-duck time, we’ve heard the gloves will be off,” one conservative in touch with the administration, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations, said. “We have heard we have friends, and there are definitely people who are staunch pro-lifers.”

Reminds me of this story out of Oklahoma:

Oklahoma Tells City It Can’t Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrest

I hope that the Oregon Police are similarly told to eat shit on this topic.

Mhm, same here, but I’m also a middle-class white woman so I’m aware that my access to resources and information is influenced by that.

When you defend the prosecution of a gay man based solely on the fact that he’s gay, oh AND compare him to prolific and horrific rapists, people are going to form opinions about you.

I certainly have an opinion about you now.

Hahaha that’s one way to bow out. Ciao!

“That mischaracterizes the art collection seized,” Reubens’ lawyer, Blair Berk said Friday. “If that means a black-and-white tintype from 1901 with a young man of indeterminate, 17- to 19-year-old age, laying on the beach after having gone skinny-dipping … then they got it.”

“It was clear from the start that we, along with the many distinguished art experts supporting Paul’s art photography collection, vehemently disagreed with the city prosecutor’s view of what constitutes art,” Berk said.

In a statement, Reubens said he was glad that the child pornography charge had been dismissed without “a costly circus-like trial.”

I can bring sources.

You’re gonna need to bring sources for me to believe you here.

That you didn’t realize what his actual charges that he pled guilty for is telling that you’re talking out of your ass here and pretending like you’re well-read on the topic.

you won’t even admit was stated by the person who was accused

I have never refuted that he pled guilty. I do refute that he’s guilty in actuality though. Especially considering they didn’t actually find anything in his collection.

Also, to be really clear, Paul only pled guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge, not a charge for possession of CSAM.

Again, it was the comparing him to P Diddy and Michael Jackson that was your biggest misstep here and the one I took most issue with here. And you just keep doubling down.

He admitted to it so that his name wasn’t further dragged through the mud in an incredibly homophobic society where his main focus was maintaining his private life as best he could.

Stop putting Paul’s name with those rapists.