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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Why do you seek these things out, Myrm?
Because Myrm hates himself?
>Implying we aren't all masochists
i mean, we come to IJBM, amirite
I'm not, which is why I visit here infrequently ^^
I've seen a lot of tripe on the internet lately, but this has to take the cake. Who the fuck is this jerk?
Actually, I read the "nerds fetishing powerful women" thing again and a thought occurred to me.
As much as nerd fiction and media has generally been more female-inclusive in some ways, it's not necessarily female-friendly, depending on the context. Science fiction is generally better about this than fantasy, but there's a long way to go in the latter. So the comment Juan quoted is a farce of sexism responding to sexism.
I would hardly say that nerd culture is particularly female-friendly as a whole. Apart from writing, males tend to dominate creative media roles such as in film and game design, not to mention pen-and-paper RPGs, reenactment, HEMA, ect. While nerd culture is getting better with the whole gender equality thing bit by bit, it's a ridiculous misinterpretation of it to think that it's built to appeal to women, or to make its members appealing to women.
If my incredibly incomplete observation of women's interest in speculative fiction is any indication (and hell, why not?), it seems that women tend to err towards literature and stage as mediums more than any other. I have this hypothesis about the development of men and women in regards to the media they consume and it basically goes like this:
Women are brought up on the ideals of the stable relationship where the protagonist (or dominant sympathetic female character, at least) ends up, despite all contrary setbacks, as a social powerhouse with an impeccable partner and a position of social leadership. Men are brought up on ideals of task-based success, where the measure of a man is his capacity to solve outward problems rather than internal ones. As boys and girls enter adolescence, the line blurs (especially these days) and sometimes disappears completely. So we live in a reasonably egalitarian adulthood, but where gender roles are strongly suggested throughout childhood.
Being brought up on social ideals, women generally might prefer media that deals with social conflict rather than physical conflict. Given that books are the strongest medium in which to depict this, it only seems natural that women would choose that as an outlet rather than other mediums. Men, brought up on physical problem-solving ideals, might continue to seek out action -- and what's better than video games for that?
In short, I'm suggesting that ideals enforced from childhood influence our choices of media during adulthood, and gender plays a reasonably significant role in this. Men seek out the visceral experience of a video game in a broader sense and women seek out literature in a broader sense -- at least, in terms of creative outlets. Obviously, men have been reading since chisel was taken to stone and women have been playing games alongside men since there was a board to put pieces on. But it seems the advent of the video game has provided something of a particularly masculine creative outlet, and women have stuck to the medium of literature while men more often seek out something that appeals to the sensibilities they've been taught.
This is probably why we need more female game designers. Who knows what video games could do if there were some dominant creative personalities that emphasised the social over the visceral?
Actually, come to think of it, aren't casual games with strong social elements extremely popular with women as well?
fuck laconism
Do you have any sources to back this up? I tend to be very suspicious of anything that suggests inherent differences between men and women because most of it comes off as unsubstantiated folk sociology (not to mention mansplaining).
I don't consider it inherent at all, and personal experience tells me there are enough exceptions to the rule that it's changing quickly.
If you look at media that is commonly consumed by young girls and then look at the media that is consumed by adult women, you might see some common threads. Likewise for young boys and adult men.
Personally, I consider most social differences between men and women to be social constructs. And, like I said, it's a hypothesis that is unsupported by hard data. That's what a hypothesis is -- a consideration based on untested observation.
Yeah, social constructs. In a lot of cases, Occam's Razor reduces the whole demographic issue down to simply unconscious exclusivity attitudes among people in a social group. Blind interviews attest to that.
http://mpcdot.com/forums/index.php?/forum/8-their-posting-careers/ Uh, oh guys, if we're not careful they might say mean things about us on the internet.
Is that a site for troll gatherings or something?
It must be, its the only way I can accept the homophobic, transphobic misogynist SA hating tossers
>2012
>Freud
"Actually the optimal strategy is to stigmatize abberant social behavior that works against community stability (gay men, in addition to having predatory sexual habits, are famously hedonistic, carriers of venereal disease, and due to their mental illness are likely to work against healthy community institutions)."
Oh, wonderful. It's been a long time since you found someone both this pseudophilosophical and asinine.
I didn't even know "homophile" was (ostensibly) a word until now.
>gay men
>predatory sexual habits
XD
Is the whole site like this? What is this site even for?
Well, at least it hasn't beaten Reddit for the worst Internet community I've seen.
Oh, thanks for reminding me! I need to go see if Reddit actually did anything about those subreddits
...I have a feeling that I should be ready to wipe my browsing history
SO close
All BUT r/youngporn was deleted (somehow their disclaimer saying that it just mean young adults over 18 works. Despite there being a teenager right on their front page. ಠ_ಠ)
^Porn itself calls everything below the age of 30 a teenager. After that, you become a MILF regardless of whether or not you have kids or not.
Also, info on the site in question: http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/The_New_Effort (NSFW, duh)
> powerful women (i.e. men with breasts)
What about powerful women who have flat chests?
And what about cute, meek women as suggested by the "moë" aesthetic?
The idea is that only men can be "powerful", Glenn.
Technically, very nearly all men have breasts. >.>
This seems like a good time to complain: why the hell does chest size matter? I guess the answer to that is self-evident, but fandom has a...bizarre take on social justice issues.
> chest size
> social justice
I think I missed something.
Flat chests give a bonus to agility, but large melons give a bonus to defense.
^^Precisely.
^^ And charisma.
Actually, that would most likely depend on the equipment. Equipment with more cleavage gives a higher charisma bonus, but another penalty to defense.
You don't have to show skin to make breasts look good.
yeah i'll stop this right here