I have no idea what the context here is, but using your "love and respect for women" as a shield against accusations of misogyny is identical to "I have black friends" defense against racism. cringe.
The game would be severely diminished if it's story changed. IMO, the "good times" has more to do with Arthur being an "unreliable narrator" than the actual material circumstances.
This is illustrated best by Arthur recognizing Micah for what he was, while remaining childishly blind to Dutch's character. Arthur's constant doubt and reluctance was the truth bubbling up, just below Arthur's consciousness.
The reading that Mica, Bill, and Javier are evil while Charles, John, and Arthur are good depends not on one group being more dishonorable, cruel, or murderous, but rather who stayed "loyal" to Dutch.
I think it's brilliant the way the story uses the "ludonarrative dissonance" as tension not between gameplay and story, but perspective and reality.
Just when you think all the people frozen in adolescent sensibilities are on the right, the Daily Beast is there to remind us that the puerile sense of humor is alive and well on the left.
It's really not surprising that the most homophobic are queer themselves. Imagine how much you would resent someone who got to openly express what you've worked so hard to suppress.
People focus on the trouble AI is causing in schools, but the real tragedy is that young people today can live their whole lives without ever composing any type of long form writing. Asking them to is like asking someone to do long division when a calculator is right there.
Some people will still love to write, but for the majority, creative writing is dead as disco.
The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren't exact copies because they'll have mutations unique to themselves.
Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, "disastrous" SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments' reasoning.
It's ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.
I always like to remind white people that for POC and minorities, every time they go outside, they're stepping into the TSA security line. https://gitnux.org/stop-and-frisk-statistics/
Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it's common as dirt especially for people who's life is ruined. It's a joke in movies that "new fish" looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it's mysterious and suspicious.
Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.
The story going around is that the Republican women of Congress are in open revolt because they've been sidelined and ignored by leadership and the President.
White women discover their status doesn't overrule misogyny. More at 11.
A lot of people compare Trump to Hitler, but as apt as that may be sometimes, Hitler was a dilettante intellectual; he was a reader. And as painful as it might be to anyone who's tried to read it, Hitler did write his own book.
I don't remember the character well, but besides being a real-estate guy, I don't see the connection between Trump and Fontaine. Fontaine was evil and all, but he was also hyper competent, organized, and had consistent ideology.
I'm more concerned about the Trump Supreme Court, the Trump dept. of Justice, and the Trump military, but this is pretty bad too. It's nice to see the Democrats have found an issue worth fighting for.
I have no idea what the context here is, but using your "love and respect for women" as a shield against accusations of misogyny is identical to "I have black friends" defense against racism. cringe.