An open letter

The Newtown massacre is because there were no adult males on the school grounds. DAMN THOSE WIMMIN FOR BEING TOO WEAK TO STOP A GUY WITH A GUN!

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/19/national_review_writer_shooting_was_result_of_a_feminized_setting/

This past year my son's elementary school started a program called "WatchDOGS" which attempted to recruit dads to stand around in t-shirts when the kids arrive in the morning and when they leave in the afternoon. Fathers were also supposed to roam the halls, make sure kids were properly escorted to and from the school, and so forth.

It was poorly intended, poorly designed, and enjoyed half-ass participation at best. I'm not sure what their goal was other than providing a group of half bored, half trying to look tough guys looming around when I walked my kid to school. Now that it's a bit colder, we drive and GODDAMNIT DON'T YOU TOUCH MY CAR YOU NECKBEARD. My kid knows how to open a car door.

Dumb.

SIGH

Lols. What a great policy, lets have random strange men roam our school halls.

Don't be attractive at work, ladies.

SIGH

And now for a word from the author of Fight Club something else.

Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she's a very hot woman she's really overrated.

— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 6, 2012

Wrong asshole.

Sorry! American Psycho. Haha damn.

There were some great responses to his tweet.

No shit.

So, that's one of the dumbest things I've read about this. Yes, sadly, it was a woman who wrote it.

Youtube LP'er pewdie pie puts out a New Years video apologizing for the kerbillion rape jokes in his previous Lets Plays.

His fans, predictably, demand more rape jokes.

I clicked that and now I feel like I've been assaulted.

1 million views and 89 THOUSAND comments?

I'm gonna be over here committing seppuku with a letter opener if anyone needs me.

So it's not enough that Congress had to kill the Violence Against Women act, but now they've killed legislation to help catch rapists. Jesus.

All you silly broads are just making this "war on women" stuff up to cover for the war on men.

Hey now. This is the "video game culture is misogynistic" thread, not the "everywhere else is misogynistic too" thread.

FUCKING VIDEOGAMES GOD DAMNIT ARGHLEBARGHLEASHGFIUZRWBFWUOZEGFOUZWESF

http://collectorsedition.org/13454/dead-island-riptide-zombie-bait-edition-rumor

Jesus, that's so appalling that I have no words. Who the fuck would want that? WHY would somebody want that? Why in gods name would you want to own or display a dismembered body in a bikini? What could they have been thinking? If you saw that in someone's house, would you not immediately turn around and walk out the door again? Possibly run out the door?

hey man the important parts are still there

Also, Astromarine, you may want to put that image in a spoiler box with a trigger warning - seeing that could be pretty traumatic if someone clicks on it, not expecting to be confronted with horrific gore.

Well, that's...

Yeah, I've got nothing.

You may want to put your post is a spoiler box with a trigger warning, in case someone clicks on this thread and isn't expecting such an intense concentration of overbearing smarminess.

Seriously, though. I know we have a lot of posters here who found their girlfriend's dismembered body on a beach and still lose sleep because they've never found the killer, but they're a pretty hardy bunch when it comes to video game collector's edition bonuses.

(also, wtf Deep Silver. Just wtf.)

hey adam, your douchebag is showing.

Sometimes I hate this fucking industry.

I'd be less worried about a trigger warning, and more about that being NSFwork/school/anywhere, really.

Because, y'know.

Yeah, I think it's distasteful but I don't know how likely it is to hit close to home for very many people.

Yes, nothing says smarm like concern for other people. Then again, it's no wonder you'd misidentify something you have no experience with. Believe it or not, you don't have to have stumbled across a dismembered torso to have a strong reaction to unexpectedly being confronted with graphic images of violence against women, whether it's in plastic or not. And quite frankly, it's hard for me to imagine why you'd have a problem with showing some consideration for other posters, even if you can't personally comprehend why it would ever be necessary.

I have a hard time believing that whoever designed that has ever touched a real boob.

That or they have no idea how gravity works. Could be both though.

Seriously it looks like a couple of lotus buns glued to a torso.

No no, it's cool. The bloody dismembered bikini babe was actually made stronger by the experience. In the context of the game, it shows how she went from being a frightened and vulnerable heroine with all her limbs and a head, to a tough-as-nails torso.

a quote is like a second like.

The only thing better than horrific misogyny is men fighting over who is fighting the fight more better.

or, y'know, *a lot of other fucking things*.

Alternatively:

or, y'know, silly posturing is WAAAAAY better than horrific misogyny and it's retarded of you to even compare the two things.

So, which of the two responses to your stupid, stupid post would you prefer? Because if you were expecting an award for being an intrepid fighter against overly earnest defense of women, good luck with that shit.

I think you're reading too much into my post there, big guy. But knock yourself out.

We're all aware of the ass shot, the boob shot, the panning down the legs in advertisements. We're more than aware of the violence perpetrated against women (I won't list those here).

Now we have a Collector's Edition trophy to proudly display a woman's Most Important Goods, collected by brutally hacking away everything else about her.

It's a prepackaged rape trophy.

Is that maybe a bit much?