Maybe if you bothered to start a men's thread, we'd stop relating things to women's issues in the thread that says "women" in the title.
Seriously, no. Nobody would take a men's issue's thread seriously, and it'd be trolled into getting locked within days.
Really? People keep saying all this stuff about women's threads, and yet we've managed just fine. The original Progressive Rage Thread worked quite well until I left and stopped moderating.
Hell, I'd be willing to help moderate if you needed it. Or Novel could, if he'd go with it. He's not only a good moderator, but also a dude, which I think is more appropriate.
Besides this thread has had genuinely good discussions on men and women's depictions in videogames.
I'm going to add that I think the Krogan are, frankly, as insulting to men as the Asari are to women. I realize that characters like Grunt are sort of made for men. Rather, they're supposed to be male-appeal characters. But there's a whole bunch of stuff about this race of men, its inherent violence, how perhaps it's violent because it's lacking in women that make me feel kind of unsettled. Bunch of macho cultural stuff. Kind of like the Asari sexworker stuff. They're both incredibly male-gazey, but they're both nasty depictions.
(Forgot to add--we do see a female Krogan in ME2! She happens to be dead, on an operating table, and used for Mordin's character development. There's those tropes again...)
Right, so domestic violence (for both genders) is defined as a certain range of things, some of which you don't agree with as "real' abuse - and it's only the men who are taking advantage of that wishy-washy "abuse" standard? You have evidence for that?
You made an argument about physical retribution to emotional abuse. He responded with statistics showing that women are overwhelmingly the victims of physical violence, though abuse in general is about even. Please calm down. You've been persistently arguing against statements people aren't making for a while now.
Right, so domestic violence (for both genders) is defined as a certain range of things, some of which you don't agree with as "real' abuse - and it's only the men who are taking advantage of that wishy-washy "abuse" standard? You have evidence for that?
And then you say because there's another category of crime completely, where women are victimized, so were supposed to say "those male domestic violence victims don't know how good they have it!".
Well there are other categories of crime where men are more victimized, so that makes female domestic violence not a real problem, too, I guess?
I guess your going to say "yes but MEN did those sexual assaults". But that doesn't make sense, because you can't blame a class of people for what individuals in that class did - and especially not to say "well a woman over here got raped, so that makes it totally ok that this unrelated guy got bashed by his girlfriend!". That's a very poor argument.
Do you see all this? Most of it is reading things into a simple statement about his potential argument, and
then saying that his
actual argument is poor. Italics and underlining mine, possibly badly done--hope you get the gist, if the substance is poor.
It sounds like you're really struggling, and like people have treated you wrong, and I'm genuinely sorry to hear it. But for the sake of having this not all blow up again, I think it's necessary to point out that you're fighting phantoms.