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I mock him because he's a jerk. Again, a very widespread opinion at ANN.

I just simply know there's plenty who are happy with things just like there's people who aren't.

TitanXL wrote:

I just simply know there's plenty who are happy with things just like there's people who aren't.

Yes, just like there were slaves who were OK with being slaves. Nobody thought of them or their owners when slavery was abolished! Madness!

Blood- wrote:

I mock him because he's a jerk. Again, a very widespread opinion at ANN.

I currently can't think of an accurate English expression to convey this, so I'm leaving you with my native "tú no cantas mal las rancheras" and wish you luck looking it up.

Well not Klepek obviously. Everyone knows his stance. I'm referring to other people on the site, guests, and even the community. A recent example being a funny live-stream they did when the topic came up and one of the women on it laughed at the talk of the whole sexism thing and told people to get over it and hated how stories are focusing so much on it lately rather than "video games" which is why they got into the industry in the first place and not some social justice campaign. She was nicely level-headed without falling into that "you're either with me or against me" mentality a lot of other people like to say. I have to wonder how Patrick felt when he heard that. The comments were nice as well and a lot of people voiced their own views and such that they normally don't get to say because they tend to be silence and berated.

Again, this is not to suggest at all that the debate about sexism in pop culture isn't completely valid. It isn't to say that whoever's making the decision to keep Power Girl's boob window shouldn't be called out for being a pig. But there are places where your victories in the fight against the oppression of women can have real material meaning, real physical impact on abused women, real legislative impact, and none of that seems to get any real attention from anyone. It's a little depressing.

Zac's point was that alot of people can talk the talk, but when it comes down to it they don't walk the walk where it counts.

CrowLia wrote:

Blood- wrote: I mock him because he's a jerk. Again, a very widespread opinion at ANN. I currently can't think of an accurate English expression to convey this, so I'm leaving you with my native "tú no cantas mal las rancheras" and wish you luck looking it up.

This is an English language site. If you aren't competent enough to render something into English you should probably shut the hell up.

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But it does feel like I hear about how ragingly sexist and awful it is that Power Girl's costume has a boob window and then look at the volunteer and donation numbers for an organization that does real work helping and defending the rights of women like Planned Parenthood and can't help but notice that one of these things is really easy to do while sitting on your ass in front of a computer and the other actually requires real passion and commitment, and the discrepancy explains itself.
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If I'm being totally honest, I'm really sick of the subject too. Nothing is changing and people are harping on the same points over and over again, and I'll be damned if I'm not sick to death of tumblr social justice "warriors" harping endlessly on the same few pop culture detritus items without seemingly ever actually donating money and time to charity causes and organizations that do actually help abused and oppressed women. We get it, comics are really sexist and exploitative toward women - something needs to be done about that - and video games have a similar problem, and it's a good thing that a light is being shone on these issues and people are getting called out for their shitty behavior.

I'm not entirely certain, but it think a very rough English equivalent (not a literal translation by any means) is:

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".