It works. But there isn’t much that it can do.
Edited to add:
Chess is precisely about violence. It is merely a very abstract representation.
Depends upon if you consider economic coercion to be violence. I do. Corporations also feed back into governmental policies, and use government protections, including law enforcement.
I don’t often say this, but I mean it when I do.
TRIGGER WARNING
Look, I’ve played A LOT of FPS and 3rdPS shooters. It’s my favorite genre. And my reaction to that is: gross. gross. gross. gross. awful. terrible. and gross again.
This isn’t just about violence. It’s about violence against women.
Yeah, fair enough, mostly I support violence against other virtual men.
But if we allow people to choose female player avatars in multiplayer, I’d be shooting women. Not naked in the shower, though.
I agree that having it be in the shower is kind of gratuitous. Though in the pulpy context of that Hitman game with bondage nun assassins (no, really) it is not terribly worse than, a live action version of, say
THAT’S THE POINT.
Women as target. Women in the 'fridge. Women as objects.
Jeff, I love you, but listen up, because this is an important life lesson. When you “no really” a point about bondage nun assassins it’s incredibly important that you don’t parrot it back to the same person that just made that point less than 12 hours ago.
Because you lose some cred when you do that.
Gawd, you’re such a hipster…
Yeah, I know, but it is hardly weird for Hitman to stage a level in a strip club. Mobsters and gangsters have been known to hang out there. See: The Sopranos, etc.
Putting the female target in the shower is way, way more gratuitous than that.
This recent comic is funny by itself, but the explanatory notes on Ayn Rand are icing
Ayn Rand was a 20th century philosopher and author, and while she has been largely ignored in academic philosophy, she is still very well regarded in the train fanfic community, for her seminal work Atlas Shrugged. It has the distinction of being the longest, and arguably the best, train fanfic ever written.
You best check yo’ priviledge before you wreck yo’, uh, something something portrait orientation.
(source)
A National Youth Front flier mocking Appalachian State’s privilege boards. Image via YouTube.
Oy vey. Just what the world didn’t need more of. Hateful and delusional racists.
That’s an inappropriate choice of typeface.
And using a red and black valknut as a symbol. How original.
Well, if you’re going to be a hate-filled, delusional, shit-stained oxygen-thief, at least it’s easy to spot you.
We had one of those national youth dudes at GSU and he tried to set up a “European student” organization… I think everyone just mocked his fliers for a while and the university wouldn’t sanction his club. Dude came from Alabama to ATLANTA thinking that shit was going to fly somehow.
http://www.playboy.com/articles/laverne-cox-naked-feminist-exclusionism
Well. That’s an unlikely source, I would have thought.
I found this yesterday, where Bowie said Hitler was the first rock star:
http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/david-bowie-playboy-magazine/
Playboy has often had interesting interviews… I think they interviewed MLK once… in fact, Alex Haley did the interview, apparently:
And holy shit, look at this that I found when I was looking for the King interview:
Gross.
Progressive politics, yes; progressive gender issues? Still surprised.
Well, to be fair, they are wading into a tricky debate about gender, making out your traditional feminists as being the bad guys here (which, in this case, I do agree with them that the women making comments about Laverne Cox is a total asshole and 100% wrong). But they get to point out feminists being assholes, and hence they must all be wrong (which I felt was implied by playboys take on the second wave feminist engagement with pornography in general). But there is something to be said about what playboy does as a publication. Sexual politics make strange bedfellows (har har har).
from https://www.facebook.com/communismofficial
which also has http://wecommunistmemes.tumblr.com/ (the FB page came first)
Which is well worth perusing.
I can’t stop tittering at this one about gender communication issues.
