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A worthy cause if you’ve got a few bucks and you’d like Feminist Frequency to make this series of videos exploring the hundreds of instances of problematic video game characterizations of women. Go see the Kickstarter project and, if you can, donate. Update: Looks like they’ve met their goal, but the series as a whole [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sexism’
S E Cupp is wrong about so many things… this time, equality
April 24th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault You folks might remember S. E. Cupp as FOX News’ token atheist, who claims to be godless but “doesn’t hate God”. You might remember her as Sarah Cupp, who I’m guessing doesn’t like to be called Sarah because she bears more than a passing resemblance to Sarah Palin both in politics and in appearance. Now, [...]
Posted in Gender, Politics, Privilege 
Tags: equality, feminism, gender, politics, prostitution, rape, S E Cupp, scandal, Secret Service, sexism 
27 Comments »Citrix pulls out of Rush Limbaugh advertisements
March 2nd, 2012 Jason Thibeault After a metric assload of complaints regarding their advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Citrix has pulled their advertisements. They posted on their Facebook wall: Over the past day, we’ve heard from many great Citrix customers about our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show. These customers have expressed their growing concern that some of his [...]
Posted in Computers, Gender, Politics Tags: Citrix, contraception, feminism, gender, Rush Limbaugh, sexism 47 Comments »Are universal statements always a problem?
January 8th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Or just sometimes? It occurs to me that many (“ALL!” “Shh.”) of our problems around these parts viz every new conflagration, from our recent conversation with Mallorie Nasrallah, to the statement by DJ Grothe that we only blog about controversial topics for hits, to the pushback against a Rebecca Watson blog title as though it [...]
Posted in Gender, Privilege Tags: egalitarianism, feminism, misandry, misogyny, sexism, universal statements 81 Comments »Agitation And The Long Game
January 4th, 2012 Jason Thibeault I don’t have a good post queued up for today, and not a lot of time to write one, but here’s a few links you’ll probably enjoy (if you haven’t already). My post from June about Rick Santorm’s wife’s abortion, proving him a total hypocrite with his anti-abortion stance, suddenly exploded overnight. People are passing [...]
Mallorie Nasrallah says “I like it when #mencallmethings”
January 3rd, 2012 Jason Thibeault That’s the only takeaway message I can get from this open letter to the skeptic community, which apparently came as a direct response to her active participation in this discussion at Greta’s. In the comments on my ill-received but well-intentioned (but as Classical Cipher is fond of saying, intent is not magical) post regarding whether [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: #mencallmethings, feminism, Mallorie Nasrallah, misogyny, Penn Jilette, privilege, rape, sexism 278 Comments »Maddow: The Cain allegations expose systemic dismissing of sexual harassment
November 13th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Rachel Maddow summarizes the case against Herman Cain in his having settled with two women for sexual harassment. Talking Points Memo put up a list of things that don’t affect the allegations that have been thrown chaff-like into the discourse to throw off the media. The summary contains choice responses from the right-wing, trying to [...]
Posted in Gender, Politics Tags: Conservatives, feminism, politics, Republicans, sexism, sexual harassment 8 Comments »The Case Against Outing Franc Hoggle
November 8th, 2011 Jason Thibeault There’s a battle raging presently over at Ophelia’s and Stephanie’s over a guy by the ‘nym of Franc Hoggle. I say ‘nym, because a real-life friend of his learned of his online identity, evidently by him outing himself to this friend — leading to his friend discovering his blog, Grey Lining (no link, sorry). Said [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Introspection Tags: anonymity, atheism, bullshit, cheating, feminism, harassment, misogyny, pseudonymity, sexism, skepticism, troll 84 Comments »Female protagonists in video games as eye candy and as role models
November 6th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via reader Aliasalpha, Kotaku Australia has a piece up about a Street Fighter panel at NYU’s Game Centre where Capcom staffer Seth Killian (a.k.a s-kill) was asked, point blank, “why so sexist?” He said he was going to “take it on the chin”, but proceded to blame cultural differences between Japanese and Western cultures, playing [...]
Posted in Games, Gender, Privilege Tags: boobs, privilege, sexism, sexuality, video games 27 Comments »1989: The Montreal Massacre
November 2nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I wanted to have this handy for a post I plan on writing about the Conservatives’ elimination of the long gun registry. Can you guess my angle?
Posted in Canada, Gender Tags: Canada, feminism, gun control, long gun registry, mass murder, misogyny, Montreal Massacre, sexism 13 Comments »
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