Quan’s open apology is a sign of progress, but be wary
Last Friday, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan made the rarely seen move of apologizing for the events that transpired at last Tuesday’s Occupy Oakland protest turned violent.
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Last Friday, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan made the rarely seen move of apologizing for the events that transpired at last Tuesday’s Occupy Oakland protest turned violent.
Over the past year, “hacktivist” collective Anonymous engaged in controversial campaigns against major corporations and government agencies.
As a parent, it’s pretty much a guarantee you’re going to force your kids into participating in a few unwanted family activities, such as summer road trips or family game nights.
If there’s one thing that William Bennett, the U.S. secretary of education during the late ‘80s, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the elder President Bush reign and well-known conservative pundit, detests than the concept of changing gender roles. It is the thought of you, assuming you have a Y chromosome, spending your hard-earned free time playing “Call of Duty” that gets his goat. No, he’d rather have you living the life of a ‘50s sitcom dad, enforcing good old-fashioned patriarchal dominance, McCarthy-style. Early last week, Bennett published a CNN editorial lamenting the failure of the modern male to reach his “perfect” standards of manliness, which center on the founding values of “work, marriage and religion.” “Man's response has been pathetic,” he writes, referencing the increasing presence of working females, “Today, 18-to- 34-year-old men spend more time playing video games a day than 12-to- 17-year-old boys.” Bennett treats the notion of women in the workforce with repugnant hostility throughout the article. He depicts them as an ever-encroaching horde, power-hungry and relentless, as they continue to consume all those positions of authority and power that our white Christian God clearly meant for strong male figures. “Women now surpass men in college degrees by almost three to two. Women's earnings grew 44 percent in real dollars from 1970 to 2007, compared with 6 percent growth for men,” he writes with an all-too-apparent theme of revulsion. Bennett tackles the problems currently plaguing modern man with a clearly out-of-touch perspective, impaired from a high seat of long-held privilege and old age. “We may need to say to a number of our twenty-something men, ‘Get off the video games five hours a day, get yourself together, get a challenging job and get married.’ It's time for men to man up,” he carelessly spews at the end of his editorial. Of course Mr. Bennett! It’s not a floundering, overly-sensitive economy or a mangled job market beaten to a pulp by the irresponsible, money-hungry power plays by suited men in power, not unlike yourself, that preventing twenty-something college graduates from getting jobs. It’s their Xbox 360s! Are you drowning in all that student loan debt? Well, as long as you don’t buy “Battlefield 3,” then things should just work themselves out. Bennett also fails to make any mention of the fact that female gamers make up over 42 percent of the total gaming population in the U.S., according to a June 2011 report by the Entertainment Software Association. But who cares if they play video games, right? At least it keeps them away from boardrooms. OK, in fairness, yes, our generation is by no means perfect. We have our lazy, purposefully unemployed individuals, but these are traits not limited to a specific gender, or time period for that matter. Bennett views his era with classical “back-in-my-day” hubris. People during the era of “work, marriage, and religion” were no less confused, depressed, or generally lost than people today, even if they didn’t Tweet about it. Look, Mr. Bennett, as a male twenty-something myself, I can safely say we’re trying. We’re trying to get jobs, be good fathers and generally positive members of society. Remember, it’s a process and doesn’t happen overnight. It’s just that, well, sometimes it’s easier to stay at home and deal with fictional characters then go to work, and listen to out-of-touch conservatives drone on and on. Reach the columnist at dsydiong@asu.edu Click here to subscribe to the daily State Press newsletter.
We all hate the drones of Cheetos-munching adolescents that fester the world of online gaming.
“Googling” your own name is hardly out of the ordinary these days. It is a great way to get privy on how you’re being published, what possibly embarrassing info future employers may stumble upon, or just passing time through a boring class.
It has to take a Gandhi-like degree of patience to remain a Sony loyalist these days. There seems to be no end to the abuse and delusion, with a year’s worth of network outages, leaks of personal information, and just the general feeling that Sony simply treats the wants and needs of their customers as an afterthought.
The attitude that PC gaming is dying is hardly a new one.
Last Tuesday, Square Enix’s highly anticipated video game release, “Deus Ex: Human Revolution,” was set upon store shelves and gamer desktops with massive critical acclaim.
It’s been well over a year and a half since the 2010 late-night television wars, where courageous American media personalities fought over exorbitant sums of money, while the rest of the country, bored with hearing about a recession, turned to bearing the arms and emblems of “Team Coco.”
These days, it hardly seems newsworthy when Sony Computer Entertainment has some sort of debacle with the PlayStation Network.
It seems Jamie Oliver and his hordes of low-blood pressured, celery-munching hippies have claimed another stronghold.
Nintendo has never been without its problems. Despite the company name be synonymous with the term “video game” at one point in history, the Japanese corporation has struggled to either achieve or maintain dominance over the increasingly competitive videogame market.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger left Hollywood in 2003 to serve as Governor of California, he left a giant-Austrian-goliath-sized hole in the hearts and dreams of action junkies worldwide.
Chances are you heard overnight teenage pop star Rebecca Black’s “Friday” over our recent Spring Break.
There are few easy targets in the world quite like video games. Ratings-hungry media outlets, or politicians with re-election in their eyes, have frequently gone after the interactive medium, even as phrases like “Call of Duty” and “Wii Fit” reach the cultural status of household names.
Last Wednesday, for the entire duration of author, columnist and activist Dan Savage’s speech on the “It Gets Better” project, four hecklers did what hecklers do best: they displayed the most obnoxious qualities of human hive-mind mentality.
In a claim that files under the “less-than-surprising” category, an Alabama law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Taco Bell Corporation, having taken beef with Taco Bell’s alleged “beef.” Pun opportunities like that are once in a lifetime, kids.
While the association is nowhere near as blatant as Captain America’s, few contemporary fictional characters are as fixated in the hearts and minds of the American people as the legendary Superman. Let’s face it: He was our first, the literal embodiment of the superhero template that countless others would try to follow.
It seems the whirlwind controversy and legal battles surrounding the 2008 Barack Obama “Hope” poster have come to a close.
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