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STS2 being review bombed because anita sarkeesian was credited as a consultant. Gamergate is alive and well

And this is after everyone was mad at chinese players for review bombing the game due to an unpopular boss redesign a few weeks ago. Not that these people being racist is news to anyone, but still.

Yeah it really sucks...

have boy magical girls but ONLY in the roles women get in shounen where they never get to do anything plot relevant, are implicitly weaker than the girls, and get brutalized or killed off to raise the stakes

Worth noting that the creator of the show acknowledged this, basically saying “We didn’t intend for Jenny to be trans coded, but we’re ecstatic that trans people are finding comfort in her. Just because we didn’t intend the subtext doesn’t mean it’s not there.” Very cool and way the hell better than Hartman handles shit like this.

love when worf says 'klingons do not do such things' and its really clear that he personally just doesnt want to.

Nice ploy Spock

Aaaand that smile sneaks out. What's not to love. 😏

no one says big mood anymore. no one even says mood. no one says anything. all thats left is a dry wind, that scours my face until i bleed

mood

you can explain the material things that could be done to make trans women's lives easier, and someone who thinks misandry is real will show up like "that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, abolishing gender". and then they wont abolish gender

they only ever want to abolish trans women's gender

a lot of people say "abolish" when they mean "re-naturalize." they don't want to make sexgender systems more visible and work collectively to dismantle them. they want to make them invisible and insist there is nothing there to dismantle.

We tried to warn you about the "adult content" bans. Now Kickstarter is starting that shit

"Fetishized imagery intended to arouse" well it's a good thing oppressed and vulnerable communities are never fetishized.

it's kind of a shame that the 10-year long "urobuchi said in an interview that madoka was actually about how young girls are literally terrorists who will be destroyed for their hubris" -> "he really did not say that" telephone game has largely buried any retrospective appreciation of how kind of funny it was that urobuchi did just start rapid-firing his thoughts on american imperialism and its relationship to the motivations behind acts of terrorism and nuclear energy and the y2k panic, which is admittedly all ultimately in service of expressing some pretty normal ideas, while the interviewer barely manages to keep the entire thing on-topic.