So Here’s The Thing. Yes, There Are Some Strong Female Characters In Video Games. But The Existence

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This isn’t how statistical methodology works.

If you want to be able to generalize the results of your survey to the general population, you have to use some form of random sampling*, you can’t just ask random people on the internet. Twitter polls (etc.) have two main flaws:

1. Response is voluntary, which means that people who don’t care are less likely to answer, and (on questions where this is applicable) people with more middle-of-the-road or less-shocking answers are less likely to answer. 

2. They operate using “convenience sampling,” which is basically what it sounds like and tends to bias the results in favor of whatever opinion is held by the people in the group likely to notice the survey. A political survey on the Fox News website will tend to have more conservative responses than the general population; a sports survey on the Boston Globe website will tend to have more pro-Red Sox responses than the general population; a survey on a Twitter page will tend to have more whatever-the-twitter-users-followers think responses than the general population.

(I did a brief Google search to see if this has been surveyed reliably and didn’t find anything, although possibly I could find something in an academic database. If anyone can find a reliable survey, I would be interested in seeing what the results.)

*This is somewhat complicated by the fact that it is nearly impossible to do a perfectly random sample. Phone surveys in which callers are randomly chosen and the response rate is high are generally close enough in surveys of Americans, although they aren’t perfect.

This is so interesting to me. 65% of people would rather experience rape than be falsely accused of rape.

re: self-inserts

I summon the demon Campbell Mark Swan. I wrote the words along the perimeter of an almost closed circle, drawn on a blank page of a notebook laying on my floor. I knew it wouldn’t actually work, but I still felt an excited anticipation as I closed the circle.

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when BI PRIDE DAY!

Roller Derby is the most amazing sport I have ever been a part of. 

New players are enthusiastically welcomed and made to feel a part of the community.

The community is incredibly accepting of LGBTQIA+ people.

Everyone actually uses your pronouns for you.

If you have to correct someone on your pronouns, they’ll start using correct ones.

Derby is the first place where I met openly LGBTQIA+ people my own age.

The local adult league has an all-gender restroom at all of their bouts.

It’s also full of feminists.

It basically includes everyone.

If you don’t want to play contact, you don’t have to! Everyone gets to learn at their own pace.

Basically it’s an incredibly inclusive and welcoming environment.

Roller Derby

Okay, story time, folks.

So I’m in a junior roller derby league (to young to be in the full on ones), been playing for six years, non skating official one year. And holy crap, I can’t even express the love.

Today, during half time, the part of the league that wasn’t drinking water was discussing gender, BDSM and how horrible 50 shades was and how it wasn’t BDSM, it was rape. We talked about abusive relationships, and the people who were less educated on anything just asked questions. RESPECTFULLY.

Everyone tries their hardest to understand everyone. All of the games for our states big league is translated into sign language (explaining the rules and such) so deaf individuals can understand the commentary.

The policies for the game are made to particularly protect women, people with special needs (sensory issues, hearing, processing, so on) and trans people. There’s a huge, and I do mean HUGE LGBT presence in derby. Heck, two of my trainers (I’m only a stand in coach, but I guess I would count as the third?) are Genderless, most all of my teammates are bi, pan, trans, gay, or questioning.

The newer people are always cheered for and aren’t ever belittled, and are set to learn at their own pace.

Religion isn’t ever a big deal.

One of the whole things about derby is to stop slut shaming and sex shaming so it’s always really open, but in a okay manner I guess (hard to explain?!), so it doesn’t feel violating, just open and happy. But slut shaming is never a thing.

Every person has a story behind their derby name, and their derby name is an identity.

Roller Derby is freaking rad and I love it. I love our community. I love everything about it.

Ppsssst you should too maybe

“Why are we listening to badger screams?”

“I’m ROLEPLAYING”

“I'm always shocked at the number of fantasy genre readers who can suspend disbelief more easily for dragons than bisexuals. Especially considering that almost no bisexuals breathe fire. Like, hardly any. Less than half, certainly.” -Rich Burlew, after a fan complained that the inclusion of a bisexual character in his webcomic violated their suspension of disbelief.

why would a fantasy world with dragons and orcs and liches not have gay marriage, i dont fucking understand these nerds who strive to cling to the shittier aspects of reality in fantasy

me playing pokemon: why do all of these npc trainers have so many of the same pokemon, and only like teams of 2-3? this is unrealistic they should have full 6 pokemon teams and cover all their type weaknesses and

me playing pokemon go, arms full of nidoran,: I now understand

No one knew who the tabby belonged to, though they presumed Mrs Figg as the cat had been seen to enter her house. However, it also seemed rather fond of number four’s back garden and the green eyed boy with whom it played most Sunday afternoons when the Dursleys went out. Of course McGonagall would never admit she had a fondness for playing with Harry when she was supposed to be keeping an eye on him.