Recent content by my_ledge_ends

Seminal: It does not mean what you think it does.

Ack, sloppy wording. What I meant is that men have more resources at their disposal. ...Wait, the draft? Really, man? We haven't had a draft in over forty years, and it's probably never coming back. Our military prides itself on being an all-volunteer force. I should know - I'm in the Army...

Well, for one, female inmates are twice as likely [http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/press/svpjri0809pr.cfm] as men to experience inmate-on-inmate sexual assault. For two, I would argue this is getting more into the atrociousness of the American prison system. This Guardian article...

You know, the hardest thing to explain to MRAs and people who spout MRA-type arguments is that men and women are not on equal footing. In spite of all the evidence - extraordinary numbers (1 in 6!) of women being victim to sexual assault, the notorious gender gap in pay, the very need for there...

The Lupa et al. blaming really needs to stop. It's patently clear that not only is it not about the rape joke, but also that everyone involved - except Spoony, it should be noted - would much rather just move on from it. I mean, for one, it's virulently misogynistic to blame women for being...

Yes, yes it does. Is there a problem with that?

Maybe I should rephrase? I dunno, there are a hundred qualifiers I coulda shoulda thrown in that post. I fired it off quickly because the comparison he made was pretty ridiculous. I then made an "educated guess", which is only half-a-step above a baseless claim. In my rush to decry stupidity I...

I like how you only quote part of my post, then come at me with several variations on an ad populum argument. The sophists are cheering for you, but Spock is not impressed [http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/post/8288251877]. If you had bothered reading the rest before firing off this...

Equating webcomic artists - the vast majority of whom struggle to scrape by - with a million-dollar-plus news institution like The Escapist (an institution that could easily foot a 20k bill) is hilarious. Also hilarious: the mentality that, when confronted with things you don't like, you...

I'm frankly a bit annoyed by all this "If you don't like it, don't donate!" pablum. That kind of "just ignore it and it'll go away" mentality puzzles me. The inescapable truth is that people send messages through their actions. Crazy, right? These messages are often up for interpretation - cf...

It's good to know that not only is your faith in humanity implied to have been naturally at 0, but that only two things were able to shake you lower: shock over one gay kiss, and a vapid and ignorable dating site continuing to be vapid and ignorable. And the vapid, ignorable dating site is in...

As the latest bouts of cultural paranoia and violence are proving once again, there's a lot of pent-up rage boiling beneath the surface of the everyman. Also, cough [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5X0ETik1c].

He's ToonLink, silly! ;)

Just wanted to mention (while I still have a semblance of a bully pulpit) that if any of you guys liked this video, I'll be continuing them up on my website [http://www.completelyfictional.com] even if I don't win the contest. SO THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU ALL.

I love absolutely every word in this. I do have to say (with regards to last year's video) that I didn't think about Nintendobo as a dissociative fugue, though in hindsight it makes sense given his very adult-like dialogue. I also find it interesting that you repeated the cross imagery at the...