There were two interactions with men that I liked. One was the weird rival who helps clear out enemy strongholds and then duels with her. I recall it being fairly smarm free. More just two warriors respecting each other.
The other was with the fat guy in the DLC. I really liked his story. He just misses his mom and wants to relive a fond memory of her. Aloy was, thankfully, not a bitch to him and actually rather sympathetic. That surprised me.
That process wouldn’t fly because it would unfairly characterize people who have committed crimes as being criminals. There is no correlation between the two. Just like how, during the mon—I mean mpox outbreak—it was established that “men who have sex with men” are in no way connected to homosexuality.
I like how quick some asshole from Home Depot was to throw the guy under the bus with the usual “we instruct out staff that none of our inventory is worth your life” routine. We all know that if he’d just let them go without any hassle they’d have fired him for not protecting corporate assets. I’m sure it’s some legal bullshit to protect themselves.
"Each is charged with a single count of burning an object with the intent of intimidating a person or group of people." It took them six years to figure out they wanted to charge someone with that? What a crock of shit. Fuck, if they're getting this treatment, I bet the US Government will come back for January 6 people in another few years with reckless trespassing or something.
It’s a product of its time. mostly aping the directing style of the Battlestar Galactica reboot with the ongoing mystery of Lost and musical cues matching every drama at the time, which is fitting because of all the romance shit thrown in. At best it’s jarring compared to SG1 and Atlantis. At worst it’s painfully derivative. Still. The character of Dr. rush can be fun to watch (I’d describe him as ruthlessly pragmatic) and there’s a soldier with nice breasts.
This has been coming for a while. Ever since racism began to be defined as involving institutional power or something like that, as opposed to just bigoted motivation.
When did that happen, exactly? Liberals will insist that it's always been that way, but I'm confident this is a recent development (the last 10 years or so.)
Sadly I can’t find the original article, but here’s Reddit discussion of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bvpw4/activist_lady_gets_raped_in_haiti_and_writes_an/
I remember reading a white woman’s account of how she went to Haiti or something to help after a hurricane. She ended up being gang raped by a bunch of islanders (Hispanic? Black? Mixed?) while there, but didn’t feel they were responsible. It was white oppression of the locals which was responsible, and she apologized, as a white person, for being a part of that.
Wow. I didn’t think it’d be that high. I expected something like NPR where they get a very small amount of their money from the government and being flagged as government was technically true but functionally meaningless. (For the record, I didn’t agree with NPR being flagged as a government mouthpiece. During the Trump era they were VERY anti-Trump. If they’re owned by anyone, it’s the Democrats, but not necessarily the government.)
I got an explanation once and it made even less sense. The woman said some shit about how race carries with it the collective history of the people of that race. If you're not black, you can't become black because you didn't experience blackness as a culture growing up. Bitch then went on about slavery and oppression and how someone of privilege can't understand what it is to be black. I asked if this meant women were never oppressed, and so a man CAN become a woman because of their privilege. She said I was being purposefully obtuse.
I have some bad news for you, then …