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brinaelegiraffe:

shelzie:

hatewizard:

devidementia:

smellestine:

chipperwhale:

what you fail to realize is that video games shouldn’t cater to females in the first place. It’s largely known that it’s targeted towards the MALE demographic and has been for so many years, so why would they ask for something like that to be handed to them on a goddamn silver platter?

that’s like a guy walking into the women’s department of clothing at a sears and demanding that there be more clothing for men there. Separation of sections be damned.

that’s not how it fucking works

no not really

the game industry is more like walking into a regular department store and seeing that all the clothes are only men’s clothes

and when you ask the cashier where the women’s clothing section is, they wheel out a small rack of cheaply made tutus, g-strings, and high heels all in bright pink

and then when you go “wow really that’s it” you get called an uppity bitch and everybody assumes you want all the focus on you when in reality you’d just like to be considered a worthwhile demographic since you also like to wear clothes, it’s not like you want some ridiculous getup, you just want a solid shirt and pair of pants that fits you alright.

I mean hell you even sort of like men’s clothes and you have no problem wearing them. They suit you well. But it’s very obvious once you throw on a pair of men’s pants that they were not made for you.

^^^

Perfect metaphor is perfect.

The clothing metaphor doesn’t really work no matter what argument we’re talking about because video games aren’t clothing, they’re a medium. Mediums don’t have ingrained biases based on sex, they’re quite simply a way of delivering content.

I think a better analogy would be to say “video games are a male space” is about as stupid as someone saying women aren’t allowed to use wood as construction material because wood is for men only. You can make all sorts of things with wood that can appeal to all sorts of people, but then there’s some idiot that thinks wood has to be used only to make certain objects they like or else it’s an insult to all woodworkers.

astheticas:

This made my heart break even more

Honestly? I’m not the praying type, but my thoughts still go to all three of them. If Leelah’s parents eventually realize the huge mistake they made, their guilt might lead one or both of them to commit suicide. In general terms, every life matters, and they can still do a lot of good things. In specific terms, they could turn this tragedy into a cautionary tale to keep other parents from making the same mistakes they made.

the-goose-is-loose:

There’s a difference between being a criminal and being scum

I don’t know what to think of this solely because I can imagine the possibility of the burglar being someone that planted the tapes there to frame the soccer coach.

I would need more information before I could make a proper judgment. Someone is guilty here, I just don’t know who.