Author: kirkwallhellmouth

b-mommy:

thedasian:

b-mommy:

Any “bitching” that goes on in the reblogs is generally calling out the confessor on sexism, racism, any number of other “isms,” or just being ill-informed.

Nice gendered insult, by the way. It really removes the guesswork in puzzling out which controversial posts you agree with. 

It’s like some folk are too busy defending themselves to consider that they are, in fact, doing something wrong.

But it’s just a gaaaaaaaaaaaaame! EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN NEGATIVE REACTIONS!!!!! Why does everyone take bigotry so seriously???!!!!!!!!1 wtf ppl???????? 

“It’s just a game” does not any way shape or form negate that it is a media footprint than can be interrogated in terms of it’s own fictional world and in terms of ours. When they first came out, I’m sure some people said, “They’re just plays” about Shakespeare’s work. People can say, “It’s just a TV show” about Buffy or LOST, but that doesn’t suddenly make the growing number of people taking scholarly approaches to examining these shows and writing books about them. You could call the Harry Potter series “just a book,” but again, scholarly poking around in it is and has been occurring.

These and other fictional works handle real-world issues, albeit often in non-real-world ways. People question and interrogate stage, film, and print media ALL THE FREAKING TIME, so why the hell should they not do the same to video games, especially games that are so heavily story-driven as the Dragon Age games?

I started seeing this commercial on Hulu (I think it was Hulu, at least. That’s the main place I see commercials ever, these days) and thought it was worth discussing in terms of positive aspects and negative aspects.

Positive Aspects:

This is the first commercial for women’s clothing that I’ve seen that show cases women from multiple ethnicities AND multiple body types. Usually, you might see a commercial that had both white women and black women in it, but generally not any with both these and Hispanic women or Latinas or Asian women. And if you do, usually they are all slender and fairly tall. This add blows that out of the water and definitely gets points from me on that. It’s also positive toward all the body types featured.

Negative Aspects:

Here’s the part of the ad that really got my attention, and not in a good way: “You’re a woman, so dress like a woman.”

I’m a woman. The clothes in this commercial, however, are not my style. At all. I spend most of the year living in jeans and t-shirts. The rest is usually spent in button-up shirts, vests, blazers (let’s not get into how many variations of the classic, mens-wear-looking black blazer I own), Victorian menswear-esque things, and…year. My wardrobe all comes the women’s department in stores (except my tie collection; most of those came from the “mens” section of thriftstores), but it’s mostly as close to menswear in look as you can get.

“Dress like a woman” as presented in the ad says to me, “dress like a femme woman, because that’s the only way to dress ‘like a woman’.” It bothers me, because to me, it’s saying there’s only one way of being a woman. This is wrong. There as many ways of being a woman as there are being human. I have the same gut/kneejerk reaction to this as I have when told to “sit like a lady”: sprawl more.

So this is my internet-sprawling, even if few people see it.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Look! A Wild Drawing Appeared!: Reblog if you like Dragon Age.

vanessacsketch:

goddessofcheese:

b-mommy:

jannetje:

I need more of you on my following list.

You could say that.

I don’t know what could indicate to anyone that I maybe have a teeny-weeny little silghtly obsessive daily ritual-esque Bioware-related problem.

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I refuse…

Dragon Age made it hard to play MMORPGs for a while. I always try to pause them to get a better angle for attacking. Sadly it never works.

Look! A Wild Drawing Appeared!: Reblog if you like Dragon Age.

So what’s she been for the past…five-ish years, chopped liver?

I am still surprised by the amount of people who think Kate Kane aka Batwoman being a lesbian is new to the reboot. She’s been a lesbian. For years. I can kind of understand this coming from people who don’t pay much attention to comics, but it takes less than five seconds to look up “Kate Kane Batwoman” on Google and see what she’d been up to for the past several years.

If you’re gonna say “Batwoman is a lesbian in the reboot,” take time to look around and then correct that to “Batwoman is still a lesbian in the reboot.” Honestly people. When the website you’re writing for has searchable, tagged articles written on the subject back when it was new news, there’s really no excuse.

stfusexists:

the-madame-hatter:

glossylalia:

anarchopunkz:

ballroom-communism:

diffindo-:

this is why i am a feminist

I actually cried when I watched this.  

wonderfully done

Everything important. 

so well done

Please watch this video. It’s really well done, and very important…it will be 10 minutes of your life well spent, I promise. 

Media literacy is so, so important and needs to start at a young age.

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)