Parenting: What the fuck do I know about that, I have no kids. If I criticize someone's parenting, they'll surely point out just that. So, here's the thing: if no one knows jack crap about parenting, at least until they become parents and magically attain some esoteric knowledge unique to people who have successfully spawned their own hell raiser, how come everyone gets to be an unsupervised parent to their own kids? You know you've heard a practice child joke or two about first borns.
Here's another question: Do we all assume everyone knows what's best for their baby and if so do they really? I just know it's their responsibility, not mine. I would have said problem in lieu of responsibility, but then I realized it is my problem if their child grows up and becomes a lousy human being. How do we measure the lousiness of a human being and how do we account for what contributes to a person ultimately becoming lousy or not? I think these are things we should have down on a list by now. Parenthood seems to be an institution that is much more intuitive than intellectual. Does that bother anyone?
I think there must be some parenting methods that are superior to others, and it's probably relative to the kid and/or the parent. Doesn't that sound like something very important to figure out as a society? I think teaching parenting in schools is also wise. The textbook for that course could be called "How to Care for a Baby: Ensuring Optimum Psychological Development in Infants" or something like that. Any topic about raising kids could probably divide people into two or more camps. Corporal punishment vs time outs for instance; Are one of these camps wrong, neither, or both? Someone's fucking up!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Anita Sarkeesian: Dipshit
I have for you, Anita, a genuine "women in video games" thing for you to review. Every gamer knows about Final Fantasy 7. It's a very famous game. It's got three female characters. Aeris, Yuffie, and Tifa. Aeris dies, but it's not a case of women in refrigerators. It's still the most profound death in video games to date. She was built up as incredibly special: Her romance with the hero, her heritage, her powers, her personality. She was marvelous. Yuffie is some kind of black sheep who rebels against her patriarchy and eventually wins them over to her side. Then there's Tifa. Poor Tifa. Insert screen shot of Tifa's boobs here.
Tifa defaults to the heroes romantic interest after his first choice is famously murdered. She also dresses about as poorly as a Hooters girl. I've seen early concept art where she was given really cool leather asskicking pants, but some twat decided to dress her in a skirt - a completely inappropriate article of clothing for someone who does a lot of flips and kicks. Despite how competent a martial artist she is, she gets into a silly slap fight with another woman for being to pretty. She also has to be saved by the other heroes at least twice. When the hero falls into a "coma," (it's basically a coma) she immediately gives up her role as the new group leader and her responsibility of saving the world so she can be by his side. When every other character in the game has their own personal back story and motivation, she kind of has more or less the same basic back story and motivation as the hero, i.e. lazy. At least she did join the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE on her own - wait. We don't actually know how that happened. We more or less are told that she sort of fell in with them because she identifies with their goals. Again, laziness. In her past, we see that she is fairly ordinary. Then her mom died and she got depressed or something. She does some crazy shit like climbing a dangerous mountain and sword fight a guy. Still kind of fuzzy about why. She spends quite a bit of time thinking about the hero, though; She might have completely romanticized most her memories of him. Unlike Aeris, she's also not confident or assertive enough to confess her feelings on the date scene, which I thought was kinda lame. Also, insert another screen shot of her boobs here for emphasis. Thanks for the porn, Square.
Finally, don't give Anita any power by insulting, threatening or intimidating her. She's clearly half-assed her hundred-thousand dollar vanity project, and the internets has called her on her shit. The best thing we can do is ignore her and let her fade away into obscurity.
Then again, I don't think that Tifa is the product of sexism or misogyny.
Tifa defaults to the heroes romantic interest after his first choice is famously murdered. She also dresses about as poorly as a Hooters girl. I've seen early concept art where she was given really cool leather asskicking pants, but some twat decided to dress her in a skirt - a completely inappropriate article of clothing for someone who does a lot of flips and kicks. Despite how competent a martial artist she is, she gets into a silly slap fight with another woman for being to pretty. She also has to be saved by the other heroes at least twice. When the hero falls into a "coma," (it's basically a coma) she immediately gives up her role as the new group leader and her responsibility of saving the world so she can be by his side. When every other character in the game has their own personal back story and motivation, she kind of has more or less the same basic back story and motivation as the hero, i.e. lazy. At least she did join the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE on her own - wait. We don't actually know how that happened. We more or less are told that she sort of fell in with them because she identifies with their goals. Again, laziness. In her past, we see that she is fairly ordinary. Then her mom died and she got depressed or something. She does some crazy shit like climbing a dangerous mountain and sword fight a guy. Still kind of fuzzy about why. She spends quite a bit of time thinking about the hero, though; She might have completely romanticized most her memories of him. Unlike Aeris, she's also not confident or assertive enough to confess her feelings on the date scene, which I thought was kinda lame. Also, insert another screen shot of her boobs here for emphasis. Thanks for the porn, Square.
Finally, don't give Anita any power by insulting, threatening or intimidating her. She's clearly half-assed her hundred-thousand dollar vanity project, and the internets has called her on her shit. The best thing we can do is ignore her and let her fade away into obscurity.
Then again, I don't think that Tifa is the product of sexism or misogyny.
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