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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
1	Tyson knows. k	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 06:49 PM
0	Tyson knows. k	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 05:47 PM
1	Tyson knows. I've reiterated the point numerous times in various replies. By now I'm pretty sure I've spent five times as many words explaining my interpretation of the tweets as there are in the tweets themselves. If, at this point, we're still at odds on how to read the messages, I doubt there's anything either of us can say that will get the other to agree with their reading. So I'm just gonna bow out at this point because we're not gonna get anywhere.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 04:09 PM
0	Tyson knows. Charming.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 03:52 PM
2	Tyson knows. He didnt say that. I didn't say he said anything. That's why both sentences in my reply were questions; I was asking him to clarify.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 03:06 PM
1	Tyson knows. The current system is based on merit?! Sorry, where did I say I believed that? I was pointing out that it was Tyson's implication.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 03:04 PM
1	Tyson knows. Why would you wish for equal parts men/women, when the important part is that they're as competent as possible? Except that the two aren't mutually exclusive. By her saying "How nice would it be if Congress were 50% women" and his replying with "How about we just elect on merit rather than identity," he's effectively insinuating that it's how the system currently works and that we shouldn't fix what ain't broke.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 01:29 PM
1	Tyson knows. If you reply to someone without contradicting them, you're ostensibly agreeing with them. Likewise, my argument is saying that someone wouldn't have posted this in PPD if Tyson were effectively saying "Yes, the system is sexist. Imagine a world where it weren't." It's not about Tyson's intent, it's about interpretation of what he's saying. And if the interpretation were that he was agreeing that politics is biased, it wouldn't be here.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 01:21 PM
1	Tyson knows. So then pray tell: what do you think he said?	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 01:12 PM
1	Tyson knows. I direct you again to the reply where I spell out for you what he's saying, but I'll also simplify it for you. He's either: saying that politicians are currently elected solely on merit and not by gender, race, etc; in which case he's implying that the reason women don't make up 50% of Congress is because they're not good enough for the job. saying that politicians are currently not elected solely on merit, and that he wishes they were; in which case his lack of a contradiction means he's agreei…	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:55 PM
1	Tyson knows. Yeah, which qualifies as "more." Are you really nitpicking because I'm paraphrasing and not quoting verbatim? And regardless, the point still stands: Tyson is making the claim that the reason Congress is only 19% women is because people are elected solely on merit (and therefore, women aren't as qualified for the jobs as men).	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:39 PM
1	Tyson knows. Read it again; observe context. He's directly replying to her comment that things would be better if there were more women in government. In doing so he's presenting a counterpoint. He's using "Imagine" to mimic her own language in a sarcastic way, but the implication he is making is that officials are elected based on their merits, not their gender. In other words, he's saying that the reason there are so few women in politics is because the ones that run just aren't qualified enough. Given the…	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:31 PM
2	Tyson knows. But you can't say that [sexism] will not exist only when 50% of woman are in congress. No one is saying that, certainly not Gillibrand in the image or me in my reply. What I was saying is that Tyson Davis is talking out of his ass by implying that the only reason there aren't more women in politics is because they're not qualified enough for the jobs to win elections.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:22 PM
0	Tyson knows. Just so I'm clear, are you saying that sexism doesn't exist in America? Or are you saying that it does exist, but is somehow kept out of politics?	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:17 PM
-3	Tyson knows. How can I be sure that 50% of the population holding only 8-25% of the elected positions is due in no small part to bias? Call it a hunch.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 12:12 PM
-3	Tyson knows. It would be great if we elected the most qualified people and didn't base it on race, gender, etc. Too bad we don't, which is why women only make up about 20-25% of elected positions (except for governors, where they make up less than 10%). (source)	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/08/17 11:53 AM
2	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter Your trying to dictate how other people express art. (You're) And no one is "dictating" anything. Expressing a concern or making a suggestion for a future installment of a series is no more "dictating how other people express art" than saying "Boy, I hope we get to see the Constructicons in the next Transformers movie!" is a demand leveled at Michael Bay. I would also argue that if you like a game but find issues with it, then you never really liked the game You could argue that, and it's be a v…	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 04:29 PM
2	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter Kind of presumptuous to think it's just women who find the lack of female representation in games to be an issue. Likewise, it's a bit reductive to just say "If you don't like it, don't buy it." What if you like something but also have an issue with an aspect of it? What if it's not a huge problem for you but it's still something you'd like to see addressed in future installments? Should you stop buying it over that one thing? I love the Zelda games but wish there were more "Chibi Link" ones. Sh…	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 01:57 PM
3	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter That's the thing, by introducing an analogy he's introducing an argument that invites response. He honestly could've left it at "Right, most titles fall into that." and no one would've been able to say anything.	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 12:56 PM
7	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter Oh I'm the first to agree that rules, even in fantasy, need to make sense. I've always hated the counterargument "Lol look at this guy saying there were no black men in the Queen Victoria's army about a show that has Time Lords and Daleks" — anything that originates from reality (such as, say, the way a bullet works, or the racial makeup of the Queen's army), even in a fantasy setting, should adhere to the pre-existing realistic rules unless those rules are expressly narratively broken. That sai…	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 10:45 AM
2	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter And you make a fair point about fighters. Maybe I should say "percentage of people that use combat professionally (bodyguards, soldiers, etc)" or more simply "percentage of world class fighters (as in, the highest level)" Maybe. Honestly I don't know enough about the subject to say one way or another. For all I know it's well below 2%. But as I mentioned in another reply, at the end of the day it's academic because we may as well be arguing the "accurate representation" of hobbits vs dwarves in …	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 10:40 AM
8	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter That all said, I think a "real world statistics representation" argument kind of goes out the window (for both sides of the debate) when discussing something as fictitious as a fantasy fighting game. If someone were arguing about, say, Roman gladiators, then yeah — it'd make sense to say "Well, they were all dudes, so there are no women in the game." But when you're debating Tekken or Mortal Kombat or other high-fiction games, honestly then it just comes down to author's privilege. They can have…	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 10:22 AM
1	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter Women make up less than 2% of fighters though. Could you link me to your source? I find that stat pretty hard to believe, even just going off of MMA fighters. It might not be a 50/50 split, but it's certainly not 98/2. (In turn: Japan population / World Population = 0.0168)	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 10:13 AM
5	Bandai Namco (Tekken) Director/Producer has the perfect response to sexism baiter Yeah, Japanese make up less than 2% of the world population. Women make up 50%.	/r/PussyPassDenied	08/07/17 08:12 AM