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I've just seen a 'Girl Power Fashion' segment on the Lorraine show, to celebrate the anniversary of British women getting the vote. At no point did they say you don't have to wear high heels, and feel precarious all the time, or wear make-up, since your actual face is fine, or follow fashion if you don't want to. It was about slogan t-shirts.

Also, yesterday on This Morning they interviewed a man who genuinely believed he'd been visited by aliens throughout his life, and lost his virginity to one of them, and had fathered numerous alien children. So maybe it isn't just the weird 'feminism vs' bits, and they really are just turning into Sky News. Taking advantage of a man's probable mental illness for a bit though is a little too much.

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• A game I'm playing at the moment is Darkest Dungeon. It's a very good game. It's quite stressful, you have to be quite tactical about it, and if any of your characters die, they're dead forever. Went on a very high level boss run with my favourite team today. One of them died. That's to be expected, but if you don't finish the fight - with a reduced team - you don't get the equipment you gave that character back. So I kept going. Another of my team got to 0 health, which is a point at which taking any further damage has a chance at killing them. I used another character's heal ability on them, which was supposed to do 4-5 points of healing. It did 0. I went another round, with that character taking another lot of damage, and tried to heal them again. It did 0. She died. I was left with my last two characters, one of whom also ended up at 0 health. But she had an ability that did a few good things for her, and healed her for 4 points of health. I used it. It healed 0. She survived to another round and I tried again. It healed 2 points. I don't even know if this is a bug, or just a feature of high level dungeons. But fuuuuuuuuuuuu-



• Jesus fucking Christ, Quentin Tarantino. But I guess - when Donald Trump won the American election, someone said, well at least we now have a very public and very well-known example we can point to of a woman losing a job to a much less qualified, much less competant man. Now I guess at least we have a very clear example we can point to of male privilege, rape culture, casual misogyny. "I'm a cool guy, so it must be cool when I do it". Jesus fucking Christ. It was clear something was wrong when he made Django and filled it with the n-word, and made the Hateful Eight about eight men transporting a 'bad' woman and beating her up occasionally. But. Maybe he shouldn't make films anymore. Maybe fuck off, Quentin Tarantino.