MASS EFFECT TWO: GIVE GARRUS A HUG

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by DFM

Solid Snake I read the start of your post but then you said you're not a feminist by any stretch and my brain sort of hemorrhaged and disgust blew out of my eyeballs.

...Am I missing something there? Because to me saying "I'm not a feminist" means "I'm not a card-carrying member of NOW raging against how men are asinine, corrupted forces of destruction, and women are far more intelligent, far more capable and men should be constantly reminded of their evils."

Mind you, I'm basing this largely off a college experience with a feminism class I took then with a professor who raged against men with such vehement frequency and disdain that it was often difficult to even acknowledge the nuggets of truth masked behind her arguments, but, eh.

Also in the context of the point I was making, I mean, I can't imagine arguing "jeez this Gentleman's Club motif and the concept of the Asari Consort is rather ludicrously sexist" is somehow anti-women's rights.

I mean in closing, you may be referring to an early-20th century definition of feminism that now seems largely outdated (if only insofar as absolutely no sane individual argues against that definition of feminism), but I think sometimes people on the internet like to create artificial conflicts out of statements they almost seem to purposely interpret incorrectly. It should have been fairly obvious that I wasn't referring to the same definition of feminism, at any rate, and the existence of multiple definitions of the concept in modern culture is intrinsically understood.
Reading my statement about being offended at the notion of a futuristic Gentleman's Club as somehow blasting women's rights by concentrating exclusively on the one phrase that can be isolated and misinterpreted seems like the kind of behavior I'd expect from a troll trying to stir up conflict. It just feels like a lowbrow move, the kind of move Fox news would move to strip one of Obama's speeches into a socialist polemic by deliberate misinterpretation or something.

Sorry for the rant.