Recent content by apollogon

The only thing that matters is evidence. There's good reasons why people emphasize that justice should be blind. Innocent until proven guilty is more important than even democracy.

It's also pretty easy to mentally replace "all women" with "all women in his life" without making a big huff about nothing. Best not further drag out this off-topic kerfuffle...

How did it end up here? Pr0 you need to become an stronger authority in your own life. Stop complaining about it and do something. Be more selective with women? Either way you should seek a more appropriate forum to vent on.

This thread has been thoroughly derailed. "Patriarchy affects both men and women negatively, making men into emotionless automatons." Yeah emotionless automatons just wish they could emote like women. Those poor poor souls. "Rape culture is simple: blaming the victim" This is as useful...

I'm always curious with people who think all men need to cry to deal with sadness and say "otherwise they're repressed or stunted." A good life-long friend of mine always goes on long runs to mull over all his emotional afflictions (I run with him occasionally). Running in a very quite state of...

Come on now. A guy benching 700lb while receiving a BJ from another guy doing squat thrusts is hyper-masculine. That black belt is a badass, not excessively masculine.

You guys are fighting over what it means to be depressed. You both need to clearly define what depression IS before you try and argue over it. Are you talking about clinical depression or feeling sadness/depression? Because you cannot "deal with it" if you are suffering hormonal problems (in...

I don't know much about them but you're expecting too much. Focusing on smaller ranges of issues makes your more effective. Part of the reason why feminism these days is so ineffectual. I think the "men/boys don't want to cry or feel shame" is a interesting topic. Because it's complicated...

They don't need to. The vast majority in politics are already about fighting for this. Maybe not in Uganda, though (where queer rights activists and feminists need to go to actually help lots of people). I've already said why men crying is seen as weak. Authority figures don't cry obviously...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I understand your POV. However you're making the mistake of thinking their actions are derived from personal choices they've made rather than what's been ingrained in them since birth. To them it's to use violence when...

You must be a girl. It's hard to understand different honor cultures when you haven't lived in them. For example in San Francisco, if you called someone gay they would probably shrug. In Texas however, do the same and you'll nearly universally get a fist/glass in your face. How people...

You've already made up your mind. Your talking to people who have also already made up their mind. If you wanted to find people who agreed with you, this might not be the way to do it. By the way, the reason you get people like DementedSheep think that depression is dealing with sad emotions is...

Blimey there sure aren't many real problems left in the world anymore, huh? "No because as male masculinity does not literally equate to machismo or masculine pride. Nor do those that exhibit masculinity are held back by its definition to be good people." Yep How on earth does Emma...

This is my first comment on this site, so... I've been kept in the dark about GamerGate by my social circle. They'd just parrot whatever kotaku, gamasutra, RPS, etc, has been pumping out. Not exactly fond of their "opinions" so much anymore. I never expected The Escapist of all places to come...