I actually started re-watching all of Lovejoy just before you got to this episode, so yay for mentioning it. I honestly have a hard time thinking of a more typical British TV show than Lovejoy, and could even ponder doing a podcast of it, possibly with someone from the US who had never seen it... &...

I was sick last week so I marathonned Magnum and Magnum Rewatch. I wish I'd been taking notes the whole time, I would have a FEELS count going. Also, I can confirm that "shot and a beer" is a thing people get all the time (which does indeed count as one drink) in good ol' boy dive bars in ...

No no Duckay, you were expressing yourself perfectly. I just rolled some of my responses to the thread in general into my response to you, because they were sort of related. I was just expanding on the point about innocent comments getting lumped in with negative ones, and trying to point out the di...

The greater point that I was trying to make (albeit badly) was that it is completely acceptable that someone might say "I am not a fan of Sarkeesian" and have it be a genuine statement that does not reflect their greater views on women and sexism; Lord Hosk made the point that it is wrong...

{snip}…I've never seen a grievance lodged against Tropes that wasn't based on either a lie or a complete misunderstanding of the structures of literary criticism. Anita Sarkeesian's video editing is sloppy she often lingers for far longer than she should and cuts in just as she is starting to talk ...

I'm always wary whenever I see someone say that we can't forget the "legitimate grievances" leveraged against these women, largely because the vast majority of purported grievances are based on lies, misinformation, or misunderstanding. Saying "There are a lot of grievances out there,...

Just a quick aside- I'm so glad that they're not going to be calling the new female Thor "Lady Thor" or "Thorina" etc. Just as Femshep should have just been called Shepard, Thor should just be called Thor, regardless of gender. Although you wouldn't call a female Batman, Batman ...

Case in point why I don't trust "egalitarians": -denial of patriarchy -bogus assertion that feminism fails to understand societal forces driving pay gap -defence of victim blaming, and invocation of "false claims" in discussion of rape culture. These do not represent the positio...

The fact that such people exist is a testament if ever there was one of the successes of feminist ideology. I was having a conversation with a friend on a semi-related topic last week. Of course, I still disagree with a reasonable chunk of what they're saying, but nonetheless... It's funny, I was g...

Probably my last example: Girls are now allowed to join Scouts Canada = a superb thing, thanks in a lot of ways to feminist activists. When I was more involved in active egalitarianism boys were not allowed to join the Girl Guides (I'm hoping this has changed but couldn't find any evidence of it) W...

I'm gonna address a thing or two but then I'm done with this afterwards, as this is not even remotely what this thread started as. Ah, a "get the last word in and flounce" maneuver. That's a classic. Well, now I can address these topics in order to educate people who actually want to lear...

Sure, soc and psych are looked down upon a lot, and viewing them with a degree of skepticism is normal. Heck, a lot of the time I'll read a study, look up the methodology, and say "NOPE!" Still, I found it particularly troubling that a names-on-resumes style survey, one of the most bog-sta...

Perhaps not talking down to other posters could yield better results. Perhaps coming from points of assumed superiority is one of the reasons we have trouble having healthy, constructive discussions. When spoken to as equals people often don't feel like they're being attacked and better discussion ...

I’m going to take it slow, understand how components work, and build the road on facts and reasoning. If there’s counter arguments or improvements, as in a study over a Gallup poll, I will go back and fix it. That’s how I work. You mean, like the scientific field of sociology, which arrived at the ...

I'll do a quick reply about the "favor hiring or mentoring them over equally qualified women" study before I head to work. In briefly looking it over, I see two major faults in the study. 1. Sample Size n=127, and since they couldn't have they same people look at the same resume, it was 6...

Dismissing a group of people that focus on their ability to understand an comprehend by some "invisible silencing" and "omnipersistent" force playing a larger factor than simple judgement of character and ability is silly. I'm part of the engineering group, and when it comes to ...

f we want more women in the industry, we need to give women a reason to be a part of the industry. Funneling women into STEM educational paths will do little to affect industry demographics if, once women join the workforce, they find themselves having to sacrifice major aspects of their lives, and...

I worked on one of the most historically/mythologically-driven games of all time: the classic MMO "Dark Age of Camelot." It featured three realms, one based on Arthurian legend and English history, one based on Norse mythology and Scandinavian history, and one based on Celtic myth and Iris...

I'm coming, and I have my version of the angry kitties deck, (with a Steppe Lynx signed by Kathleen, natch). It went 1/1 against Kathleen's burly kitties deck at PAX East... but it's kind of unreliable and very silly. I should make a proper serious deck to take to FNMs, but I'm lazy and cheap. I'm a...

I have so many emotions right now. Ugh. I've been rooting hard for the Escapist for a long time, because it seemed like they were trying to do all the things right: pay decent money for content, publish content based on entertaining-ness, etc. I actually even applied for a job there a while ago, bec...

So I pretty much stopped watching internet video for a few months while life happened, and I come back to discover that you guys have basically turned Phailhouse into an escapist show and I am so happy. So very happy. I enjoyed Graham's acknowledgement of the inherent awesome naming combinations tha...

I've been away from these boards for a long time, so long I lost my old username and password in the mists of tiiiiime. Which is fine, because I've been meaning to start consistently using one online handle everywhere, so I seem less schizophrenic when I introduce myself at parties. So, hello old fr...