Category: Zoulapia

Short and Sweet.

Quote of the day: The Anomaly of an mostly-female cast

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The Double Standards of a gender-skewed society.

Quoth Sarah Morayati (found in TV Tropes)

“If a smash hit has mostly male characters, nobody raises an eyebrow, but if it has mostly female characters, it’s a Great Big Anomaly worth several trees’ worth of shocked speculation.”

What also usually happens is that a movie with a primarily female cast is going to be considered a “chick flick” by many, while movies where there’s at best a token female are considered simply as “Action Movies”, “Adventures”, “Comedies” and so on, rather than “Dude flicks”.

Apparently the LackeyCCG admins don't like competition.

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The mods of LackeyCCG apparently don’t like people knowing about alternatives to their program.

Now that my Doomtown plugin for OCTGN is at a very good level, I decided to go to the LackeyCCG fora to let any Doomtown enthusiasts that may be using the (frankly inferior) Doomtown plugin there, about the one I have created. I was cautious that this might not be good netiquette, but both systems and plugins are free and there’s no real competition between them. It’s not like either of them will lose money from someone preferring the other version.

Well apparently the mods of the board don’t see it this way. My reply here was deleted without notice, one assumes because someone got upset that I was promoting a “competing” card engine. This is shameful on the part of the LackeyCCG admins who should be looking to help the community have the best experience in card games, not try to hoard it to themselves.

I left another reply. Looking forward to have it deleted now…

EDIT: I was correct in my assumption that my comment was deleted because I posted a competing plugin. The main developer of Lackey sent me the following PM
You aren't allowed to discuss competing programs on my forum. If you have a suggestion for me to improve Lackey, please post the suggestion.

So much rage!

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I’ve been volunteering for a sideproject and I just got told that my idea for a strong transexual character in a fantasy-wild-western setting was out of the question because it’s “unrealistic”. The setting has zombie cowboys and poker magicians FFS! Apparently an unashamed and deadly transexual character strains the imagination but towering demons levelling whole cities are AOK…

Hey Microsoft, your sexism is showing

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Microsoft loves some gender stereotyping

Tap Repeatedly put it succintly

[…]although the only firm details I took from the video are that all women do is play Farmville and shop for clothes while men go to work and shoot people. Apparently.

I saw this shit of a video recently and I just couldn’t help but cringe at how horrific it is. OTOH, given that this vid was apparently scrapped it possibly means that at least someone in there has their head screwed on straight.

Quote of the Day: "I'm not concern trolling but you're being too sensitive"

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I’m not concern trolling, but please calm down or you’ll become unpopular.

Chumpstinator evokes uber-face palm.

I’m not concern trolling[…]

Please calm down. I’m not trying to be patronising, I’m not trying to make you angry. Just chill out. I want you to realise, that I am not here to stay on topic. I don’t care if you think I am de-railing. You obviously are getting frustrated with the posts, but I am advising you as a fellow human being, to keep cool in this discussion, or you will make yourself unpopular quick :/

It’s super effective. Db0 is left speechless.

 

Quote of the Day: Definition of Sexism

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Why one cannot be sexist against men.

Quoth Genderbitch

In the sociological standpoint, any ism is power + privilege + bigotry.So sexism is power (man supremacy) + privilege (man privilege) + bigotry (stereotypes about gender). So one can not be sexist against men in any of the contexts that I have ever used that word or anyone else in the egalitarian discourse has used that word. So I didn’t direct sexism at men. I can’t. It’s simply not possible in a world where men have the social power. So you’re wrong. Plainly, simply, wrong.

Succintly said.

 

Quote of the Day: No A for effort.

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If you do this, I want to punch you.

Quoth Fugitivus

Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”

The quote above succintly describes the immediate frustration radicals of all stripes get when someone makes elementary observations and demands mad props, or even worse, makes elementary criticism which has been countered ad nauseum, and demands immediate and well sourced replies (eg “But what about human nature?”).

This is not the only good part of course, or even possibly the best of the whole post. So read the whole damn thing. Do eeet!

Quote of the Day: Anarchist Steven Seagal

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Quoth Veganbiketroll:

honestly, I’m always surprised by ya’ll trolls. Ya’ll wanna rep feminism, but then your example of a positive male role model is a man who kills with callous indifference? Is this really what a positive masculinity looks like? The revolution will not star steven seagal.

It’s a bit old but I only noticed it now and it’s still lulworthy.