Merry Christmas, if you’re into that sort of thing!

Hello.

I was browsing the list of games Steam was proposing (in relation to recently played games tags) to me yesterday evening, and then i was proposed something called FEMINAZI: The Triggering (link is to the kickstarter because i can not access steam from work – obviously).

As you can easily guess, the developpers pretend the game is “satire”, “parody”, and they are so “sorry” if you feel “offended”.
And browsing throught the evaluations shows how much the persons who buy this… “game” are obviously really virtuous and progressive people, and absolutely not trolls and/or MRA/GG/you name it.
It has been almost one year this game is on Steam, apparently.

Outside the plain bullshit this game is, with all its anti-progressive content, the other thing that annoys me is that games like Fist of Jesus (a fun beat them all with Jesus and Juda fighting zombis) have been removed from Steam because some Ultrachristians felt offended (by a joyfull and positive Jesus who was kicking ass in the name of his father), while clearly insulting games like Feminazi the triggering quietly make their bed on the platform.

Ah, silly me, i was forgetting that it is all about ethics.

Have a nice day.

@Skiriki: So, Carisma’s kitten weighs close to a pound. Wow, that IS a big kitten. He sounds like he’s going to be the King Kong of cats.

I have a cat named Sassy, she has the shortest legs of any cat I think I’ve ever seen. She doesn’t let it slow her down, though.

RE: Natalie Wood. I skimmed a few articles about her case being reopened. I don’t understand this talk about new witnesses coming forward. Weren’t there only 4 people aboard the yacht? Her, her spouse, Walken, and the captain? It seems like every 5 years or so, something about Natalie Wood’s death pops up in the news.

content warning for ableist language

Interesting piece on the history of conspiracy fantasies in the Repugnican’t party

Given that the main opponents of feminism these days are literal Nazis, it’s mind boggling that anti-feminists are still calling us “feminazis.”

On violence in arguments, I think Isaac Asimov sums it up pretty well

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

@Jenora

Speaking of museums, did you see Josh Matlow’s proposal to turn Old City Hall into a museum about Toronto after the courts move out? That’s actually a damned exciting idea! I’m a huge nerd for Toronto stories and there’s a crap-ton about this town to tell.

I’ve actually been getting into those Infiltration Zines that Ninjalicious did, including getting a copy of his book. I’m hardly in the shape to do anything like this, but it’s a fascinating read about the artificial barriers that we create for ourselves based on the way we’ve been socialized to behave. A closed door in a hospital is not to be opened. We assume certain doors marked “Fire Alarm” are actually set to go off when many aren’t. We assume somebody’s always looking at a security camera when the security monitors are often unmanned.

There’s also a lesson on interpersonal perception. Stuff like credibility props (carrying a file folder in an office) or leaving something on a desk to pretend you’ll be right back. We’re programmed to perceive legitimacy in these things.

A part of me hopes they have an exhibit on Ninjalicious. 😀

@ Hambeast:

Remember Jade Helm…

More fallout from the Nassar cases

Father of victims attacks Nassar in courtroom

@Weird Eddie
If we’re sharing Nassar stories, this is pretty rage inducing.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/gymnastics/story/_/id/22286229/lawyer-shannon-smith-doubts-larry-nassar-assaulted-all-women-accused-him

@ Kupo:

yeah, sure

(/s) “He surely would have felt bad about it and stopped after, say, a dozen or so… predators usually do, don’t they? And how would he even get access to all those women and children who came into his examination room where, unsupervised, he instructed them to disrobe and allow him to examine them??”

How in the bloody hell can she doubt any of the accusers? Because she doesn’t want to believe them??? HE ADMITTED TO IT!!!

How in the bloody hell can she doubt any of the accusers? Because she doesn’t want to believe them??? HE ADMITTED TO IT!!!

Oh, but he only pleaded guilty to make things easier for everyone. Not because he actually did it. He’s just a swell guy like that!

I’m not even joking. He really did say that. I can just about guarantee if he weren’t already doomed to spending the rest of his life in prison because of the child porn charges, he’d have probably gone for a trial. I think he’s actually convinced himself he’s a good guy.

I sort of wonder what the manuresphere has been saying about this. I also sort of don’t want to know. When I Googled about Tatiana Gutsu’s rape allegation against Vitaly Scherbo, one of the first links that came up was a Return of Kings post.

I was like

Nope. Not reading that.

The manuresphere’s take is, and always has been “what’s wrong with sexual abuse, we think it should be legal”….

I feel that’s an underlying factor in most, if not all of the denialism that surrounds any incident of abuse against a woman (or female-presenting person), indeed any incident of abuse against ANYONE not cis-het-white-male-xian… “it can’t be wrong because, well, if it’s wrong, then power and privilege themselves might also be wrong, and that’s — gasp!!— MY power and privilege at risk here….”

Denialists voted en masse for a man who openly bragged not only about abusing women, but about getting away with it because of his power and privilege. What he said on the Access Hollywood tape was (and my shattered memory may be failing me, here) “… when you’re a star, they let you do it”… I believe what he meant was “when you’re a star it doesn’t matter if they let you do it or not, you can do it anyway”

This week’s Doonesbury is a reprinted thread from the early 90’s when the dumpster was “between wives“, and, while it’s still grimly sexist toward Marla Maples, to me it perfectly encapsulates cheetolini’s attitude towards women.

@Katamount:
Yes, I heard about the Old City Hall Museum idea on the radio as well. As you say, there are a lot of stories about the city. Heck, there are a lot of stories just about that building, such as the way the architect pretty much bribed the stonemasons to sign his name under the eaves after he was denied a plaque due to a combination of delays, overruns, and apparently plagiarism accusations.

A couple of friends of mine were rather more heavily into the ‘Urban Exploration’ thing, including getting into Bay Below and getting pictures of the old Don Valley Brick Works before that was restored and converted into more of a park. I know a lot of the basics of it, but never really indulged myself.

But yeah, we tend to take a lot of little signals like that for granted. There’s a reason why ‘act like you belong’ and ‘nobody pays attention to a busy person with a clipboard’ are pieces of advice.

Anybody who designs security systems has to understand how to break them first. And the expectations of the people using them are often the weakest link.