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So yesterday I wrote a post about men in WoW and in life in general. Thanks to everybody who replied, I’m deeply flattered by all of the positive attention it’s received, and all your comments have been extremely supportive, but there have been one or two themes running through the comments which I think need to address. This . . . → Read More: Menz Again: A follow up post So there’s been another spike in feminist commentary in the Blogsphere, which recently wound up with Pewter putting up an open post in order to address Men’s Issues. As one might expect, the comments on the original post are a mixed bag, one part people genuinely engaging with the concept and one part “wah wah nobody understands . . . → Read More: What About the MENZ? So you might have see the “Women Girls of Dragon Age: Origins” feature on the Maxim website. Le sigh. Now to be fair to Bioware, it’s worth pointing out that this is a feature in a men’s magazine, and it’s something that Maxim seems to do regularly. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan have both posed in their . . . → Read More: Girls of Dragon Age: Origins – Why This Shit Matters I honestly didn’t intend this to be a wow-feminism blog. I’m not totally comfortable with self-defining as a feminist anyway – it’s too easy for men to use the “feminist” label as a way of insisting that everybody is sexist *except them*. That said, in my last post I linked briefly to a WoWinsider (now WoW.com) article . . . → Read More: I, Ferraro The only article on this blog that has any actual comments is the one I wrote a while back about That Noblegarden Thing. Part of the reason it has so many comments is that it, unfortunately, degenerated into a bit of an argument between me and a guy called James, in which I called him a sexist, . . . → Read More: More Stuff About Sexism So I’ve just come out of wow-blog retirement to post a couple of comments elsewhere about the whole “Shake your bunny-maker” issue. This post, if you’re interested. To be honest, there’s a lot about WoW that makes me uncomfortable. Savage cannibalistic trolls that talk like stereotypical black men, for example, sit right on the borderline of “not . . . → Read More: That Noblegarden Thing |
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