Archive for May, 2007

We Told You So

May 31, 2007

From a gamer discussion of playing the opposite gender, a man discusses what happened when he rolled a female character:
I didn’t believe it was bad either, probably because I’m not one of the 13 year old retards or the 35 year old misanthropes who can’t believe there’s an actual woman on the other side of [...]

QQ more

May 30, 2007

ZOMG OH NOES THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU ALL NO MORE FREE SPEECH ITS LIKE THE INQUISITION YOU ARE TAKING AWAY MY CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED… um – child porn?
http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html
The story:
A group I never heard of until today, “Warriors for Innocence”. has been giving LJ a hard time about their practice of protecting child porn communities. [...]

Stupid Gamer Sexism of the Day

May 23, 2007

Is awarded to the fact that this forum topic, in the year 2007 can even exist, and furthermore get to be a five page discussion:
“Do girl gamers even really exist?”
**headdesk**
Although it does bring to mind my outing the other day (yes, I left the house.)  More to come on that later.

Sexist Gamer of the Day Award goes to…

May 22, 2007

The guy who posted a long story (which had nothing to do with WoW) about his office and felt it was really neccessary to go into great detail about how all of his bosses were women and how horrible that was and how at least two of them were always “PMSing” and they all are [...]

Sexist Gamer Comment of the Day

May 21, 2007

This is one so disgusting I can hardly bear repeating it – but here you go:
In a discussion of how attractive female gnome characters were and what was so attractive about them (Okay, it’s a gamer thing, I don’t ask you to understand), one guy quips:
“Ah gnomes: tighter than a 12 year old.”
I think I’ll [...]

RPing Gamers – Sexism in the Lore

May 21, 2007

Today’s post is not going to be so muchg about anything in particular that some gamer said that is sexist, but more a discussion of the limited imagination of lore writers in regards to female characters.
In Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, there are currently 10 playable “races” (probably more appropriately called “species” but this is [...]

Hmm, Interesting

May 16, 2007

Not a feminist link or even an entirely serious one, but interesting nonetheless – internet comedy writer challenges 100 to go 2 weeks without porn.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/pornoff.html

Sexist Gamer Comment Winner of the Day

May 11, 2007

“I hope her hubby pulls a OJ.”
No comment.

I’mma gonna…

May 10, 2007

I’m going to start posting the winning sexist comment of the day from male gamers. Some of them are so WTF stoopid that I am struck with insane disbelief that usually I am the only person who says anything. And when I am foolish enough to say anything, other guys rush to his [...]

You know…

May 9, 2007

The more I think about this, the more I like it. There are a number of ways I can filter my internet reading and other reading to reflect only things written by women.
Today is May 10th. Until May 10, 2008, I will try as much as possible to only read books or news [...]

Stream of Consciousness

May 9, 2007

Well first I wanted to say, sometimes people email me, and I do read your emails and appreciate them.  I don’t always answer and I have no excuse, because it isn’t like I really get all that much mail.  I ain’t that popular!   Sometimes I just don’t know what to say.  If you like my [...]