Recent content by entelechy

I'm sorry I didn't realize you were taking a hard stance against induction. Or do we only get to discuss the general impact of a being in a category when that category isn't race or gender? If so, isn't it prejudiced for you to demand special rules of logic when talking about this topic alone?

First you said this: Then you said this: So, therefore, we can conclude that you can't handle disagreements.

Yes, there are other kinds of privilege. I fully agree. But, let's go back to the character creation analogy. While it's true that being born into wealth grants better bonuses than being white, or male, or straight, you can stack those bonuses. Even if poor, straight, white male has lower total...

No seriously, your argument makes no sense. Stating that being white makes life easier than being black is not racism, it's just an observation of reality. Are you contending that racism occurs as soon as I mention the categories white and black? Because if that's what you're saying than you are...

I have no idea how you extract such an ugly meaning from a clear statement. All I said was that if you wanted to put life on easy mode, you'd play as a straight, white, male. There is no "targeting" or scorn. It's not like it's a white person's fault that it's more convenient to be white. It...

An opinion held by anyone with a lick of sense. But do go on being pedantic about this. Strangely, the concept only really seems to be difficult for people who want to pretend these problems don't exist. Most people get it with one explanation. The ones that don't all share a hostility...

I think you're playing the "pretend these problems don't exist" game. If real life were an RPG where you only get to make one character, and you wanted to stack the most bonuses -- you'd roll up a straight, white male. (Maybe you would roll up something different if you like a challenge, but...

How about advantages? In this context, privilege is about net benefit. Sure there are specific cases where women are better off than men, but that completely fails to address the argument.

Actually, they don't, since you clearly misunderstand the concept. Privilege is this case is not a specific benefit, or even a list of benefits that members of the privileged group enjoy. Rather, privilege is the net benefit experienced by members of the group. There are cases where women...

Let's unpack that point-by-point: 1) Privilege does not mean there is something inherently wrong with you, just that you are receiving unearned benefits. 2) Privilege can diminish and someday perhaps even vanish entirely. But it certainly won't if we pretend it doesn't exist. 3) No one...

So, Ultratwinkie was Gish Galloping [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop] again. I had suspected that, but didn't know the details and couldn't comment.

The seminal videos from your side were made by Internet Aristocrat. Those videos contain plenty of sexism and much of IA's video history contains histrionic rants about social justice activists invading the hobby. For this analogy to work you would have to be claiming that gaming...

You are in error, altnameJag. Gamergate is just about ethical journalism and any anti-feminists you may encounter from time-to-time are purely figments of your imagination. They don't exist. Don't look at the misogynist behind the curtain.

So, I had been composing replies to a bunch of posts in this thread, but the DDoS attack ate them, and I don't care to restart lest the attacks resume. That being said, I want to unequivocally condemn whomever is responsible for these attacks, regardless of their identity or motivation. This...

Leaving aside the lack of a real conflict of interest, a more important point is that this particular incident was initially dubbed the Quinnspiracy, rather than GraysonGate. The curious focus was and continues to be on the female game dev who had an ethical obligation only to her boyfriend...