My father said he wanted a boy. I remember hearing this when I was young—maybe six years old—standing in the Grill Room at the country club. I was most likely wearing Bermuda shorts, a cotton collared shirt, and sandals in a “Kennedy-esque” style, which was my mother’s preference.
My father said he wanted a boy. I remember hearing this when I was young—maybe six years old—standing in the Grill Room at the country club. I was most likely wearing Bermuda shorts, a cotton collared shirt, and sandals in a “Kennedy-esque” style, which was my mother’s preference.
I was not a boy.
Ferguson: The State Attacks the People
McCulloch is incorrect. The biggest challenge the case faced is not any form of media. The biggest challenge the case faced is that Darren Wilson shot an unarmed black man. Had this not occurred then there would’ve been no problems to begin with. The fact that such a shooting did occur begs the attention of the nation.
If you aren’t the sort of person who is immersed in the world of video games, you could be forgiven for being unaware of GamerGate. While initially used to name the controversy that sparked it, “GamerGate” has come to be associated with proponents who claim they are concerned about issues of ethical integrity in video game journalism. Despite this premise, the movement has largely focused on harassing and threatening women in order to drive them from the gaming industry.
While initially used to name the controversy that sparked it, “GamerGate” has come to be associated with proponents who claim they are concerned about issues of ethical integrity in video game journalism. Despite this premise, the movement has largely focused on harassing and threatening women in order to drive them from the gaming industry. It is a response by a minority of gamers to the growing inclusivity of video games in terms of who is making them and for whom they are being made. In many ways, it represents a turning point in the history of video gaming as an element of our popular culture. To understand why, we must visit the history.
The presidency of Bill Clinton was not a disaster on the scale of George. W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, but it was far from a productive one. Clinton’s first hundred days in office were wasted by his arguments over homosexuals in the military, not because it was an unworthy fight, but because the eventual solution, “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell,” was such an obvious punt. At the same time, Clinton’s proposal for a new health care system crashed and burned. Clinton, along with Hillary Clinton, attempted to push for a radical reform that would mandate employers cover their employees’ health insurance. The movement failed thanks to Republicans—and some moderate Democrats—throwing a temper tantrum (sound familiar?), and by 1994 the issue was dead in the water.