Raina Lipsitz:
Most mass murderers do not go from zero to 60. Rodger made escalating assaults on women (splashing coffee on them, attempting to shove them off a ledge) before his killing spree. Both Cho and Justin-Jinich’s murderer harassed women before they killed anyone. When such acts go unnoticed and unpunished - because we expect men to harass ( Read more... )

the reason male comic book fans work themselves into a frenzied rage over “fake geek girls" is because they think they can’t get a girlfriend because of their love for comic books (a.k.a nerdiness). if they accept that geek girls genuinely love comic books, then they’re left with the cold harsh reality that it’s not their nerdiness that makes them ( Read more... )

Jane Clare Jones writing in the Guardian, to suggest they had created a misogynistic throwback. In the original story, Irene Adler is an adventuress who outwits Holmes; in Sherlock, as Jones put it: "She's become a high-class dominatrix saved only from certain death by the dramatic intervention of our hero." She added: "While Doyle's original is ( Read more... )

"I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard."

Jones also charged that during his stewardship of Doctor Who (he took over as head writer from Russell T Davies in 2008) Moffat plucked women characters "from a box marked 'tired old ( Read more... )

Chris Hardwick: Shane wasn't being nice, though. Shane turned into a dickhead.
Wil Wheaton: Well yeah, because Lori infected him with the Be A Dickhead Virus!
[audience laughs]
Chris Hardwick: ... Her vagina?!?
Wil Wheaton: Yeah! That is Dickhead Ground Zero.
Chris Hardwick: T-that's... uh ( Read more... )

[DOCTOR WHO SPOILERS AHEAD]

Submitted by holycheeseandcrackersRight, so, anyone who follows me knows that I am Not A Moffat Fan ( Read more... )

I have created this list because, whilst the occasional quote here and there containing problematic statements is easy to write off as ‘words being taken out of context’, seeing all of these quotes, articles, tweets, as well as some meta on major characters written by Moffat together is a little harder to write off ( Read more... )

"There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands. The world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level ( Read more... )