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Irish? I thought it was Scottish?
Morrigan is a deity from the Irish pantheon of pagan beings, I believe.
I was talking more about the accent.
Mythological accuracy? In my cheesy over the top fighting game? Clearly you jest. No, I'm not going to get into an argument with you about this. I'm tired. I hold no interest in getting yet another one-sided argument.
Good night.
So, do any of you get more willing to share your thoughts and ideas when you're tired? Regardless if the ideas are good ones or not.
Re Citizen Kane: I appreciate the people who created the movie put in these little details. That said, is it possible to be emotionally affected by them on a first viewing, when one is not yet aware of these details?
^^ Partially, although I find the more common problem is that all my best ideas occur to me when I'm tired.
^^^ I think I'm LESS willing as then I'm going, "No... That's STUPID!"
Man, I wish the Wii had some Marvel vs Capcom games. Tatsunoko vs Capcom is fine, but I'm more familiar with Marvel characters.
Though there are pretty cool Tatsunoko characters, especially Casshan and Karas
Beating Yami in TvC using the giant characters is like some sort of horrible nightmare. "Oh hai, you can't dodge any of my hard hitting attacks!"
"I think what men have to realize about my situation is that you're thinking about it in this nebulous, "what if" way, whereas I have yet to meet a woman that hasn't experienced some sort of harassment in the workplace. Employers can talk a good game about being against harassment, but they rarely follow through on those claims, and saying something can put a black mark on you for the rest of your career.
I've been really having a hard time reconciling men in feminism right now because so many of the ones that I know do this thing where they are "conquering" feminism. They want to be always right. They want to be the best feminist and in doing so, they're talking over women. And worse, they're doing this thing where they're thinking about women's experiences as abstract concepts instead of how women live their lives every day. And they think they're helping. And looking at something like activism as something that you can conquer and beat and be "better" at is a very privileged way of looking at things.
I'm not trying to be the best feminist here, you guys. I'm not going to beat feminism. I'm not going win the feminist medal. I do believe that men can be feminists, but you have to stop thinking about it in this capitalist, dominating way."
That's one of the best, most concise things I read concerning the subject. I often wish men would just shut up and listen when the topic of feminism gets brought up, and it's annoying when such issues have to be brought up by men to have it taken seriously by other men.
I really do want to talk about feminist topics, but on this forum, it's not possible for it to go anywhere meaningful because of this.
I do agree that it's a shame that people only take it seriously when men talk, and there probably are a number of showy 'hey look at me I'm such a white knight' types but I'm not sure exactly what the alternative is. Certainly not 'stop talking about sexism'.
More like "know your place". I always attempt to keep in mind that whatever I say is not first-hand experience, so my input has limited value.
Though it does remind me of another thing that annoys me: the way people tend to group racial discussions in terms of white and minority. Being of Chinese descent doesn't really give much input for natives, blacks, Hispanics, and heck, even then, I'm still of Canadian birth, so my experience is different from native Chinese. Putting everyone in one broad category wrongly homogenizes different cultures and unconsciously reinforces white privilege.
Admittedly the only place I'm super-vehement about sexism is comic books but I think that's partially out of feeling condescended to.
I think that is fair because part of the problem is that the media reinforces the notion of males as sex-hungry, which of course leads men to think that this is the way they should act.
Quite honestly, I think it's a case of self-interest for more gender equality. Heteronormative society confines everyone. Granted, it confines certain people more than others but in the case of improving things everyone wins.
I hope.
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Does anyone else see The Room as essentially "Nice Guy: The Movie?"
I kind of have a hard time seeing that when the dude laughs at a woman being beaten so hard she gets put in the hospital.
But of course, "nice guys" really aren't all that nice. They only think they are.
I was about to make some point about then he'd portray himself better but then putting any critical eye to the room is just a chore.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/02/18-1/studio-madhouse-makes-charlie-brown-anime
Ehem....
Yeah
How was Powerpuff Girls Z anyway?
From what I've heard, it was neither terrible nor particularly good, and didn't really have much to do with the original series.
Though I haven't actually watched it so... yeah.
Hmm...the premise of that show seemed like the producers not getting the joke of the original series (that it was a parody of Sailor Moon). Wonder if the Charlie Brown anime will be along those lines.
Genuine nice guys do exist but the ones that call themselves a nice guy aren't nice at all
@SA comments: I suppose a lot of it also has to do with the inherent fear people in a privileged position have of coming across as prejudiced/ignorant/etc., and thus go out of their way of disproving that by having the last word in a discussion/being allier than thou.
Is it appropriate to parse 'dominant capitalist' manner as demanding direct closure and solutions to issues, rather than being comfortable with the notion that there aren't always clear-cut solutions, or that there is some sort of magic universal approach to gender issues that they just need to read to understand?
^I've only ever seen people identify themselves as 'former nice guys'. Which usually means that they're still nice guys, only now having read up on Gender Theory 101 and believing 'lifting weights and upgrading the wardrobe' means having worked out personal issues.
I don't think that was the direct intent, but considering how neoliberalism operates, that isn't too far off.
Well, maybe, though the reason that I'd be worried about it has more to do with the fact that MADHOUSE has been recently adapting a lot of American properties into anime, and not one of these shows has actually been any good. Or at least, I haven't really heard anything good about any of them. So... yeah.
Anyways, I had a weird dream today. Ended up somehow summoning a sword from my game (Those things weild very interestingly in dream world) and slicing apart some guys who wanted to kill me. Then some guy took me to a thing in space where I had to jump up bubbles to get to the top, getting bonuses. I failed due to being human and not Sonic the fucking Hedgehog (seriously, the demo I was shown had Sonic doing it).
Then I got a second chance by jumping up food (far more room to stand on a baguette longer than a bus than it is on a bubble my size). Then a fat Nyan Cat came and started eating everything, including me. I then appeared in space outside of the space station thing, woke up, and went, "...The fuck was that?"