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Trigger warning: at some points this article discusses rape.
(It also contains spoilers for Far Cry 3).
What happens when a game that is intended to be satire doesn't get interpreted that way, and what does this tell us about the games industry?
This article looks at a range of topics related to the story and narrative in Far Cry 3, primarily from the perspective of gender politics, but also in terms of consistency between narrative design intentions and gameplay mechanics. The writer, Jeffrey Yohalem, encourages close examination of the game, saying in an interview with Penny Arcade: 'My goal was to create something that people could analyse. Analysis is fun because there are many interpretations. If there's just one interpretation then it's not worth analysing.' Yohalem has given several interviews and a presentation on his views of what was created in Far Cry 3, and this article examines his intention for the game and how successful he was at conveying this to the audience, where problems arose, and whether the problems he faced are related to only this title or to an industry-wide issue.
The story of Far Cry 3 has been reviewed as containing stereotypical characters and a predictable narrative progression. Yohlem argues that this is a misunderstanding, and says in his GDC talk that:
The story itself is a straight-faced satire of pop-cultural products like Avatar and clichéd video game plot devices. A straight-faced satire seems to support the very thing that it satirises and only exaggeration and hidden clues point to the work's true meaning.
Yohalem is arguing that the exaggeration is part of what should tip off the player that they are really playing a satire.
In researching this article, I have read around twenty reviews of Far Cry 3, and they seem to be split about 80:20 between the story being plain and uninteresting ('there's a spiritual, mystical theme running through this third game that seeks to support Jason's apparently superhuman abilities. While this does help suspend disbelief, it can't change the lack of a meaningful journey for him.' - Edge Magazine) and it being an exciting blockbuster Hollywood-style thrill ride ('The story, complete with a few twists and drug-addled "is this real?" moments, certainly pulled me in and kept me pushing onwards to see how f***ed-up things could possibly get.' - Strategy Informer). The satirical nature of the story was not mentioned in any of the reviews. The closest mention of this that I found was from The Escapist, 'it can feel like Far Cry 3 is taking a few ideas from other popular action-adventures and trying to put a darker, edgier twist to them - and it can come across as a tad melodramatic as a result.'
With this tad melodramatic plot in mind...
What did you think of the rape of the main character in Far Cry 3?
You're playing as an increasingly powerful female modern-day warrior, Jacyn Brody, who's seen her brother killed and overcome this through violent action. Then she meets the leader of a friendly tribe. The tribe wants to rid the island of pirates led by the man who killed Jacyn's brother. The tribal leader is attractive and, frankly, a bit weird: he claims Jacyn is the chosen warrior who will lead the tribe against the pirates.
About halfway through the story comes the rape.
The leader of the tribe gives you, Jacyn, a drug. You hallucinate, then wake up under the leader, who is topless and smeared with blood. He's having sex with you. To add to the level of creepiness, his whole tribe has been watching while he rapes you.
So... Date rape. Jacyn is drugged and recovers consciousness while having sex. Some might view this a bit more than 'a tad melodramatic'.
Strangely, Jacyn seems okay with this, after the act. She doesn't even seem surprised, even though they had never even kissed before her hallucination. She gets up and gives a speech about how she will lead the tribe.
Is the rape okay because she doesn't seem bothered by it? Surely it's too late by that point: no matter how sexy the guy, he doesn't have the right to assume that she would want to have sex with him just because he is good looking. Perhaps this is Ubisoft trying to play out a female rape fantasy in a video game form? Those do exist, but I doubt I'm alone in finding it a bit unsettling when it is presented in a 'straight-faced' narrative, even one that is claiming to be satire.
It's hard to imagine this scenario happening in a film without audiences questioning it at least a little, and Jacyn's lack of surprise is hard to believe. Was this intended to be a clue that the game was a straight-faced satire? It seems bizarrely risky to use rape as a tool to do that.
Except, for people unfamiliar with the game, you're not playing as the female 'Jacyn', you are playing as the male 'Jason', and the tribal leader is a beautiful woman: we are playing in a male rape fantasy, apparently.
Does this make it okay? It is certainly different in terms of cultural weight, given that not a single reviewer of the game has mentioned this.
Yohalem's claim is that the exaggeration in the game is a way of indicating that the story is a satire. The non-consensual sex act performed on Jason is certainly extreme, but it does not seem to have flagged the game's story as a satire for any of the professional reviewers. In an industry where narrative dissonance (the gap between the in-game character's likeable personality and the player's often-psychopathic actions) is the average rather than an exception, and where poor writing and hyper-masculinity is notoriously common, it cannot be too surprising that a the rape of a man by a beautiful woman is not seen as a flag of satire, or even worthy of mention.
The problem with satire is that it needs to have clues to highlight when it is not actually in earnest. For Yohalem, who has previously worked on Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the hyper-masculine character appears to be considered enough of a flag that the story was intended to be satire. Jason's exaggeration, such as his aptitude for violence and lack of surprise that he would be mounted by a beautiful woman as soon as his defences were lowered, is a wholesale recapitulation of an American hero stereotype that has existed at least since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner constructed a story of the Wild West that, however illusory it may have been, formed a compelling myth around which a nation in need of a unique identity formed itself. In Turner's view, the character of America was shaped by the frontier, and most notably by male individuals who chose to go out into the wilderness and tame the land. This concept of an American conqueror bringing civilisation, leadership, and order to wild tribes while defeating the forces of chaos, should be familiar to any players of Far Cry 3; what is harder for players to see is where Turner's extreme vision of a solo American hero is subverted.
The blame for the unnoticed satire might not rest entirely with the writing; the mechanics of the game encourage the player to accept ludicrous extremes as normality. The PC Gamer review says of some of the crafting mechanics in the game:
If you're going to ask players to buy into a system so hilariously removed from its origins in real-world logic, it had better work.
With the mechanics of the game exaggerated beyond real-world standards, the narrative would have to have reached even more ludicrous levels to flag it as satire for the player.
But does it do this? Arguably it does. Beside the rape of Jason, which is unquestioningly presented as a male fantasy both in the game and by Yohalem in his GDC talk (discussed later) the game's menu screens are a reference to psychological tests, and the loading screens have quotes from Alice in Wonderland. The enemies in the game span the full range from standard psychopaths, through rapists, and on to weapons and slave traffickers. The violence is brutal and very visceral. The player can punch sharks, wrestle crocodiles, and be pecked to death by a very angry relative of an emu. On the side of the friendly characters there is a Timothy Leary-esque drug addict and a 'group of obnoxiously privileged, ankle-tattooed friends' (GameSpy) who are, in their own way, a less noticeable but nonetheless still extreme stereotype that viewers of the last thirty years of slasher horror films will immediately recognise as suitably beautiful fodder the hero may or may not have the time to save. Jason himself turns from a adrenaline junkie who cowers at conflict into a killer in a matter of moments, and rapidly matures into an unstoppable force of nature. This transformation is miraculous and the game recognises this by draping it with a narrative of spiritual destiny and magical tattoos. To support this journey, we are also given mystical temples, drug induced spirit quests, and World War II letters that descend into a bizarre comedy. In this light, it is easy to support Yohalen's claim that the game's story exaggerates everything as a clue to its satirical nature.
Which only further highlights the question: why doesn't Far Cry 3 work as a satirical art form? In all of the reviews of the game, no one has recognised the satirical nature of the story. The problem may not be with Yohalem's writing at all, but in the nature of the medium he is working.
All of the above stereotypes exist commonly in many other famous games, such as the Call of Duty series, Uncharted, Devil May Cry, Prototype, Halo, Infamous, Metal Gear Solid, or Resident Evil, to name only a few. In the latter case, the Resident Evil series began with live-action cutscenes that were just earnest enough to possibly be taken as a genuine attempt at a good plot, and the ambiguity about the intentions of the writers has remained unresolved as the subsequent games appear to take their own mythology very seriously even while the twists become ever more ludicrous. The common player-character in these games is a white, heterosexual, male with short hair and a talent for extreme acts of violence. This isn't always the case, but the balance is certainly not even as close to equal as in the movie industry, which also has notable problems in this area. Even as this stereotype is acknowledged by games developers, it still continues to dominate new titles. Against this overwhelming balance of stereotypical action game heroes in melodramatic situations, it is hard to see how any exaggeration by Yohalem was likely to inform the player that the story of Far Cry 3 was supposed to be taken not as a generic video game story, but instead as a commentary on generic video game stories.
What does it say about the games industry that we cannot recognise when an experienced writer at a major studio is trying to satirise the stories we have heard for all of our life? It is fair to say that Yohalem has indeed fulfilled his intention of creating a story with ridiculous extremes, but it seems that the games industry's default setting for its characters is so far into hyper-masculinity that even a concerted effort by Yohalem wasn't able to bring up any questions about his sincerity.
In an interview with Penny Arcade, Yohalem says that:
The story is itself something that can be solved, like a riddle. [...] What makes me sad is that people don't engage with playing the riddle, trying to solve the riddle. It's like a scavenger hunt where people aren't collecting the first clue.
There are problems with the riddle of Far Cry 3. Even if it is a satire of the hyper-masculine fantasy usually shown in video games, the sub-plot regarding Keith (a friend of Jason's) seems strange. Keith has been kept locked up and, it is suggested, raped by his male captor. The dismissal of the suffering of the male-on-male rape seems out of key with the tone of the rest of the game: both Keith and Jason agree to never talk about it, sending an unpalatable message about the topic. Was that intended to be a satire of how sex and gender are treated in games, and of how male sexual assault is often dismissed? It is hard to work out what the meaning of this riddle was intended to be.
On the subject of sex in the game between Jason and Citra (the tribal leader), Yohalem said the following during his GDC talk 'Method Acting and Interactive Storytelling in Far Cry 3':
We have two sex scenes in Far Cry 3. One seems to conform to exploitation, the other critiques exploitation.
Yohalem's justification here is that, in the first incident of sex (the rape of Jason by Citra) this is a male fantasy of a weak tribal woman being lured into giving her body to Jason, or possibly, as Yohalem describes it, a 'damsel in distress' stereotype that Jason comes in to rescue from her besieged situation. As argued above, this interpretation of the event is at best morally dubious. The second incident of sex requires the player to choose one of two endings, and so already half of the players that reach this point are likely to not see this sequence. Given that many estimates say that only 8% of players ever finish games at all, it could then be argued that at best 4% of players are going to see the second incident of sex. If this is the point at which the critique is presented, then only a very small fraction of players are going to see it. In this scene, Citra has sex with Jason, presumably consensually, and then she stabs him in the heart after he orgasms. She says that she is now pregnant with his child and that the child will save her tribe. This is intended to be a reversal of the male fantasy, where Citra is shown to really be the exploiter all along. In the alternative ending, Citra dies without this being revealed. In both endings, Citra's acts do not fit with Yohalem's intention for the scenes, and their placement in the story means that few players would ever see them. If the moment of Citra murdering Jason was crucial to understanding the puzzle of Far Cry 3, then it was placed in a way that few players would reach and situated in an already undermined moral position.
Mark Thompson, the lead designer of Far Cry 3, told VG24 that the game:
doesn't judge whether [extreme violence] is right or wrong, [...] it isn't about creating a morality play. We simply take someone who hasn't killed before and force them to kill, in order to save their own life and then the lives of their closest friends.
When compared to Yohalem's ambitions for creating a space for analysis of the game industry's views on violence, sex, and masculinity, Thompson's statement that the game is not a morality play demonstrates that there may have been conflicting views on the message that the game was intended to deliver. Without the full integration of Yohalem's satirical intention into the game's systems, it becomes less surprising that inconsistencies may have occurred in the game's narrative.
Reviewers and players alike did not question the riddle of Far Cry 3, and indeed they did not even notice that the riddle existed. In Eurogamer's retrospective of the game, Rich Stanton writes:
The truth is that every fibre of Far Cry 3 exults in Jason's fantasy, and so do you.
When rape, shark punching, and graphic violence are a fantasy that is not noticed for its extremity, and that no straight-faced satire can exaggerate an empowerment fantasy to the point where it becomes obviously satirical, the message for the games industry is dire: we have a problem with gender, and specifically hyper-masculinity, both in our characters and our gameplay mechanics. These values are so entrenched that they are accepted and ignored, even when sending very socially dangerous messages about serious topics such as sexual consent. Like all fantasies, empowerment narratives have their place in games (though the moral messages of consent should be handled with more care), and I am not arguing for their complete removal: they are a valid form of entertainment, just as much as the film Die Hard is a classic narrative of both class and male empowerment that shouldn't be banned because of its own issues with gender politics, which were representative of the time. In the film industry, alternative narratives do exist and are easy to find in very popular mainstream titles. When hyper-masculine empowerment fantasies are the unquestioned normative mode of discourse then the games industry needs to start analysing itself. With such a narrow bandwidth for expression, we can see that satire is indistinguishable from the real thing.
The lesson from Far Cry 3 is not that the game's story was a failure, but that the games industry itself is failing at telling diverse stories.
|Christian Nutt
This post makes me reflect that you have to go Saint's Row over-the-top to even be noticed as anything other than straight-faced. Parody functions; satire does not.
|Peter Bright
I think it's a bit unfair to make broader claims about the industry when Far Cry 3's writing was _so bad_.
For example, Yohalem may describe the Citra set-up as "damsel in distress" but I don't believe it was perceived that way. Nothing within the game justifies that description, because she simply isn't. She's plainly confident, able, respected and revered as leader of her tribe. She's also entirely dislikeable. Take away the "damsel in distress" aspect and in turn you take away the idea that Jason is somehow exploiting Citra. Take _that_ away, and the Dances with Wolves, white man saving the noble savage, concept evaporates. Far from satirizing these tired stories, the game does something else entirely.
So in the end, we don't have exaggeration and hidden clues. We have dislikeable characters (both Jason and Citra), we have the frankly gross but weirdly lacking in gravitas male-on-male rape, we have the weird spiritual/tattoo nonsense that doesn't really fit with the broader setting (since the game doesn't take place in a universe filled with casually-used magic), and no real indications of satire, or even broader critique and commentary.
It may not have been deliberate, but Far Cry 3 also (perhaps unwittingly) bucks certain trends. It's a common criticism that a man in a game (or film) can be motivated merely by the desire to do the right thing, whereas women need to have some additional justification (traditionally a rape or sexual assault) to steel their resolve and set them on their ass-kicking path. That's not the case with Far Cry 3. Assholes they may be, but Jason is _plainly_ wronged by Vaas at the start of the game. He is given good reason not just to become a gun-toting killer _in general_ but to seek vengeance against the bad guys specifically. In its own way, I think this subverts the idea that Far Cry 3 is some hyper-exaggerated satire of tired video game cliches.
There is a recurring theme here: Yohalem had a particular intention, and the writing failed to deliver appropriately. It might be tempting to blame the medium, but Yohalem failed to even properly convey "damsel in distress", and that's a trope that video games have absolutely down pat. It's basic stuff, and Yohalem didn't deliver it.
The one bit of writing that was effective was portraying Jason as a general shitbucket. He's the worst kind of bro. But I think this is ultimately counterproductive. For me, at least, I didn't share in Eurogamers' enjoyment of the character's fantasy. The more the story progressed, the more distant I felt from Jason. He wasn't the kind of person I am, nor the kind of person I aspire to be. I didn't relish his gun-toting ways (and I write that as someone who enjoys FPSes in general). I was much more sympathetic to his girlfriend, trying to drag him back to reality. It's why I chose the ending that rejects Citra, and honestly, I would expect that most people did the same.
It may well be that computer games are unsuitable for telling "diverse stories". But I don't think we can use Far Cry 3 as evidence of this. It's too flawed as a narrative to draw any broader conclusions at all.
|Michael Eilers
Great piece of writing! I would argue that Spec Ops: The Line also dabbles in this territory, in a way, as it satirizes the CoD one-man-army trope as sort of a meta-comment on shooter hypermasculine heroism.
I think that satire can work, and work well, if you have a laser-focus on the audience for the game. I always thought that the character of Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins was a satire character, embodying (literally) every cliche about females in D&D and yet at the same time constantly snarking to the player and mocking heroism itself. The Mass Effect series also has a few satire characters that mock sci-fi conventions and tropes as well as meta-mocking games themselves.
The real difficulty (IMO) in making satire work in the game context, especially one with open-world elements, is the simple function of time; if I put 40 hours into this game, broken up over weeks or months, will I get every nuance or hint and and get them in the right order to make the satire have impact. This is an issue that affects all types of game storytelling, obviously, but satire is especially "fragile" as it depends so much on context.
|GDI Doujins
The larger issue is what I call "James Bond" sexuality which is plaguing the culture, where Bond has no qualms off-ing someone he'd just been intimate with. How can there be true intimacy without trust?
That's the main problem regarding depiction of healthy sexuality in videogames, and it affects most scenarios regardless of which way you flip the gender coin.
|Joel Hruska
As someone who reviewed Far Cry 3 partly from a technical perspective, let me say this: It never particularly occurred to me to go looking for depth and subtlety in such a wretched piece of storytelling.
There are rare occasions when a game can take an in-your-face, up-to-11 approach to gaming. Typically these experiences are entirely divorced from storytelling. Games like Doom, or Serious Sam take a "50,000 enemies against one guy" approach and it works by sucking the player into having tons and tons of fun, as opposed to considering a story.
Far Cry 3 is full of misogynistic humor and jokes so awful I winced to read them. Here's a sample: http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1966/FC3-NotFunny.jpg
If you want to see a game that recalls and exaggerates a viewpoint that was prevalent at one time, look at BioShock Infinite. Far Cry 3 is a single bass track played at maximum volume from the moment you start the game. It tires, and it tires quickly. You can't ask me to take any sort of social critique or comparison seriously when the game quickly introduces a Magic Negro, wretchedly bad humor, and enough psuedo-mystic mumbo to rewrite Heart of Darkness.
It's just bad. And so, what was the rape scene? It was more bad. The game didn't get seriously debated in these contexts because no one who reviewed it thought it actually had anything worthwhile to add to the conversation.
|Aleksander Adamkiewicz
I will throw in some of my thoughts on this "phenomenon".
"Reviewers and players alike did not question the riddle of Far Cry 3, and indeed they did not even notice that the riddle existed."
I will fall back to my default position here that games are simply not a good medium for storytelling.
Players have been conditioned not to accept hyper-gratuitous violence or extreme power fantasies, but rather to ignore narrative dissonance between plot, narrative and gameplay. Satire relies to present dissonance and games come with dissonance off the bat.
Gameplay, the core focus of every game, is what players experience games for, they are used to ignore certain elements that are non-logical, contradictory, dissonant, or outright crazy.
Regenerating health could be one example, but another could be simple abstractions like jumping on enemies heads to defeat them, we do not question these design tropes because they are not important to be analyzed in the context of a game.
Story, narrative, lore and other storytelling devices are there to at best contextualize actions, at worst provide an inconsequential background of noise in which systems and mechanics exist to provide challenges.
Why does Link not die falling into lava but rather respawns at the ledge? I don't know, nobody knows, as players we ignore it as a certain dissonant element divorced from the setting.
Why doesn't Mario just get a stash of fireflowers before he starts looking for Peach?
All these questions are ultimately irrelevant in the game context because games are about systems, mechanics and challenges. Storytelling interconnects at no point in the core systems because it can't. Game mechanics in of themselves do not tell stories, and stories do not make for mechanics.
FC3 not being the first in the franchise, or even the first in the genre, players have come to accept really weird things going on and rolling with them. In fact, most players will actively disregard story and narrative elements automatically if these clash with the gameplay or interfere in the enjoyment of the systems.
The idea here isn't that we are desensitized to specific thematic elements (violence, power fantasies), but rather that players are uninterested in analyzing an element of a game that has but the most tangential relation to what they actually came for.
In short, most game plots/stories/narratives become satires through guaranteed narrative dissonance because they are not simulations. This is why genuine satires are not possible to spot.
"When hyper-masculine empowerment fantasies are the unquestioned normative mode of discourse then the games industry needs to start analysing itself. With such a narrow bandwidth for expression, we can see that satire is indistinguishable from the real thing."
Lastly I want to comment on this ending paragraph.
The problem here is the assumption that thematic and/or story elements are the modus of expression in games. Far from it, the medium of expression in games is gameplay and the bandwidth for it is quite large. Narrative elements are neither here nor there in relevance to gaming as they are only the coat of paint presented to the audience to contextualize actions.
Even if every game would be a hyper-masculine power-fantasy, these fantasies can be expressed in a myriad of unique ways. For example, the damsel in distress trope can be done as Mario or Zelda, two very different games, not narratively, but from the perspective of expression through gameplay. Both these games have merit beyond the application of their narrative elements, because games are not bound by narrativism.
Perceiving the industry and games only through the lense of stories and judging their bandwidth of expression this way is simplistic to say the least. It would also be highly selective and inaccurate considering how many other thematic elements are, and have been, present in games throughout the years.
|Kevin Fishburne
"...we have a problem with gender, and specifically hyper-masculinity, both in our characters and our gameplay mechanics. These values are so entrenched that they are accepted and ignored, even when sending very socially dangerous messages about serious topics such as sexual consent."
You don't say. :)
The men show off their muscles and body armor while the women show off their TNA, while both indulge in a bizarre combination of ballet and butchery. Disemboweling a live enemy just isn't as effective unless preceded by a pirouette, after all. I'm not sure what writers and animators are trying to accomplish these days, but a lot of games over the past ten years have been outright crazy.
Good article. I basically think that, considering just how insane the stories, characters, sexualization and violence are in modern games it would take no act of subtlety to satirize them. Maybe all the dialogue and character names could be overtly ridiculous? Jeffrey should have watched Dr. Strangelove a few times if satire was his goal.
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|Kimo Maru
I played through Far Cry 3, but I have absolutely no idea what kind of satire they're referring to. Maybe I've become desensitized, that these devices are common in games today, but I don't see anything. The only thing about FC3 that struck me was how unlikeable and Jersey Shore-like the good guys were. I still have trouble believing that Ubisoft thought that these characters should be the protagonists. I don't get it, I don't get it, I don't get it.
|Luis Guimaraes
Taking a Video-Game that's has good gameplay and making it bad using writing is an achievement. But it's more an achievement of the game being immersive enough that makes it's bad writing matter (by breaking that immersion) than an achievement of the writing being bad enough to put down an otherwise good game.
In the end I see it as a title that doesn't respect the audience and sees everyone that plays Video-Games as an idiot. And I mean cognitively idiot, not in that "meaningful" buzzword art-babble thing. Each line the doll drops is an offense to the player's intelligence. Sadly the it's not the game's fault because it's actually a good game.
That and the Ambient Occlusion. Man, that game looks awesome when you turn that off in the config files.
|Jason Daniels
An interesting article, thanks. To be very blunt, I just think that the biggest problem was bad writing and then a much worse sin: Hubris. Yohalem wanted to write a satire and so he set about writing something and didn't think about how it was working with the mechanics and he didn't think about how it was working with the audience. That literally zero critics understood it is somehow not a fault of the writing, but a fault of every human being playing it. This is a HUGE problem.
We can look at Blood Dragon, which is also a satire, and notice that it is immediately, obviously a satire (albeit one that is kind of painfully bad, even if that's part of the joke), and we see this level of satire woven through the entire project. This is what good satire does, it understands what is happening and how the audience will perceive it and it seeks to undermine it in that way. Simply trading in on bad cliches and then, later, saying it was ironic, well, that's a problem. In other words, it isn't that games can't be satire (other games like Stacking are chock full of satiric devices in even a silly little stacked dolls game), but rather this game does a very poor job of satirizing the elements of gameplay it is also embracing through mechanics.
Listening to Yohalem talk about the work, and especially with how he has spoken with critics (the Rock Paper Shotgun article sticks out) reinforces my idea that he had a good idea and simply couldn't follow through with the execution. It's not an unforgivable sin, but it's still a problem. The takeaway here is that we need writers that not only have interesting ideas, but know how to implement them. The reason that Far Cry 2 was as successful as it was (critically) is because the writing and the mechanics all work to reinforce an idea of the world that points to the rhetorical underpinning, it isn't something that is only there in the mind of the writer, possibly teased out if you ignore all of the contrary evidence due to (simply) bad writing.
This probably sounds overly harsh, and if so, I genuinely apologize, but this is not only someone in over their head, but someone who refuses to acknowledge it, which is as much a shame as it is stupid.
|Val Reznitskaya
It's interesting that you mention Metal Gear Solid. I started playing those games fairly recently, and I can't help but interpret MGS2 as satire. Rather than exaggerating what games are, it sort of messes with what players expect games to be.
I'm not sure if I see it that way because I'm interpreting it in the context of what games have become in the decade since its release. From what I recall, MGS2 wasn't generally received as satire when it came out. I can't help but feel that it came before its time - it still seems pretty relevant now, maybe even moreso.
Ironically, it also spawned some of the weirder tropes in the series...
|Ron Dippold
There's a general term for this - Poe's Law. The broad version is that a parody of something extreme is indistinguishable from sincere extremism, because no matter how ludicrous you think your parody is, someone sincere has argued for worse.
Which is kind of what Mata is saying here. In a world where Call of Duty's single player 'plot' and 'writing' and Resident Evil exists, there is very little that a po-faced embrace of the tropes can do to somehow elevate itself above the tropes. If Yohalem is being honest, then FC3 can be seen as an object lesson in this.


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Danny produced the latest record from another cool Canadian band – AA Sound System and he's working on the new record with Ayla Brooks (front man) as well.
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Next Question for Tunisia: The Role of Islam in Politics
Subsequent Question for Tunisia: The Role of Islam in Politics
By THOMAS FULLER
TUNIS - The Tunisian revolution that overthrew decades of authoritarian rule has entered a delicate new phase in latest days over the role of Islam in politics. Tensions mounted right here last week when military helicopters and security forces had been known as in to carry out an unusual mission: protecting the city's brothels from a mob of zealots.
Police officers dispersed a group of rock-throwing protesters who streamed into a warren of alleyways lined with legally sanctioned bordellos shouting, "God is great!" and "No to brothels inside a Muslim nation!"
Five weeks right after protesters forced out the country's dictator, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisians are locked inside a fierce and noisy debate about how far, or even whether, Islamism must be infused in to the new government.
About 98 percent of the population of 10 million is Muslim, but Tunisia's liberal social policies and Western lifestyle shatter stereotypes with the Arab planet. Abortion is legal, polygamy is banned and ladies typically put on bikinis on the country's Mediterranean beaches. Wine is openly sold in supermarkets and imbibed at bars across the nation.
Women's groups say they're concerned that in the cacophonous aftermath of the revolution, conservative forces could tug the country away from its strict tradition of secularism.
"Nothing is irreversible," stated Khadija Cherif, a former head of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, a feminist organization. "We do not desire to let down our guard."
Ms. Cherif was one particular of thousands of Tunisians who marched by way of Tunis, the capital, on Saturday demanding the separation of mosque and state in one of many largest demonstrations since the overthrow of Mr. Ben Ali.
Protesters held up signs saying, "Politics ruins religion and religion ruins politics."
They have been also mourning the killing on Friday of a Polish priest by unknown attackers. That assault was also condemned by the country's main Muslim political movement, Ennahdha, or Renaissance, which was banned under Mr. Ben Ali's dictatorship but is now regrouping.
In interviews in the Tunisian news media, Ennahdha's leaders have taken pains to praise tolerance and moderation, comparing themselves towards the Islamic parties that govern Turkey and Malaysia.
"We know we have an essentially fragile economic system that is certainly quite open toward the outside globe, for the point of becoming entirely dependent on it," Hamadi Jebali, the party's secretary common, mentioned in an interview together with the Tunisian magazine Réalités. "We have no interest whatsoever in throwing everything away today or tomorrow."
The party, which is allied with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, says it opposes the imposition of Islamic law in Tunisia.
But some Tunisians say they remain unconvinced.
Raja Mansour, a bank employee in Tunis, mentioned it was too early to tell how the Islamist movement would evolve.
"We do not know if they are a genuine threat or not," she stated. "But the best defense is to attack." By this she meant that secularists really should assert themselves, she said.
Ennahdha is among the couple of organized movements in a highly fractured political landscape. The caretaker government that has managed the country because Mr. Ben Ali was ousted is fragile and weak, with no clear leadership emerging from the revolution.
The unanimity with the protest movement against Mr. Ben Ali in January, the uprising that set off demonstrations across the Arab world, has considering that evolved into several every day protests by competing groups, a development that several Tunisians discover unsettling.
"Freedom is really a wonderful, great adventure, but it's not without dangers," stated Fathi Ben Haj Yathia, an author and former political prisoner. "There are many unknowns."
Among the largest demonstrations since Mr. Ben Ali fled took location on Sunday in Tunis, exactly where many thousand protesters marched for the prime minister's office to demand the caretaker government's resignation. They accused it of having hyperlinks to Mr. Ben Ali's government.
Tunisians are debating the future of their country on the streets. Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the broad thoroughfare in central Tunis named soon after the country's initial president, resembles a Roman forum on weekends, packed with folks of all ages excitedly discussing politics.
The freewheeling and somewhat chaotic atmosphere across the country has been accompanied by a breakdown in security that continues to be especially unsettling for girls. With the extensive security apparatus of the old government decimated, leaving the police force in disarray, numerous females now say they are afraid to walk outside alone at night.
Achouri Thouraya, a 29-year-old graphic artist, says she has mixed feelings toward the revolution.
She shared inside the joy of the overthrow of what she described as Mr. Ben Ali's kleptocratic government. But she also says she believes that the government's crackdown on any Muslim groups it considered extremist, a draconian police plan that included monitoring these who prayed on a regular basis, helped shield the rights of women.
"We had the freedom to live our lives like females in Europe," she said.
But now Ms. Thouraya stated she was a "little scared."
She added, "We do not know who will likely be president and what attitudes he may have toward girls."
Mounir Troudi, a jazz musician, disagrees. He has no adore for the former Ben Ali government, but said he believed that Tunisia would remain a land of beer and bikinis.
"This can be a maritime nation," Mr. Troudi stated. "We are sailors, and we've often been open towards the outside planet. I've confidence in the Tunisian men and women. It is not a nation of fanatics."


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This past monday, April 15, Hollaback! launched NINE new sites! A HUGE Hollaback! welcome to our new amazing street harassment avengers:
Hollaback! Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
Hollaback! Appalachian (Appalachian, Ohio, USA)
Hollaback! Athens (Athens, Georgia, USA)
Hollaback! Belfast (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Hollaback! Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hollaback! Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)
Hollaback! Hamilton (Hamilton, Canada)
Hollaback! Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Hollaback! Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Here more news from the mothership:
And around the world:
Keep up the incredible work!
Dear HOLLAs —
Our Catapult Campaign Launched this week! With your support, we'll bring our site leaders together in person for the first time ever.
Here at the mothership this week –
Here's what happened around the world —
An incredible week — thank you all for making it happen. End the week on a good note by donating to our campaign.
Dear HOLLAbackers —
I am writing you from sunny Long Beach on a layover. It's sunny, 72, and I'm sitting outdoors. I'm pretty sure this is the best layover of my life.
We are coming up on International Anti-Street Harassment Week. This upcoming week, April 7-April 13, Hollaback! sites all over the world will be chalk walking, rallying, marching, crafting, and hosting all sorts of events. Tell what action you're taking on twitter (@ihollaback) and we'll retweet it to promote it!
Thanks for all your support — and keep on holla'ing back!
Dear Hollabackers —
News from the mothership:
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HOLLA and out —
Hello Hollas–
Happy V-day everyone! Its been a super exciting week preparing for One Billion Rising. Here is the very impressive list of what many of our sites did for the big day:
The Dear John campaign is well on its way! Lets keep those letters coming in!! And if you or anyone you know would like to hollaback ONCE AND FOR ALL at a current or former harasser, send a Dear John letters to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hollaback! NYC posted a statement about holding assembly member Vito Lopez accountable for his consistant and inexcusable sexual harassment in his workplace. Read the statement on the site!
Hollaback! Brussels is playing an important role in the big sexism debate currently going on in Germany. The debate was originally triggered by an article by a journalist who was harassed by a prominent German politician. Brussels site leader Angelika spoke at the European Parliament this week about the issue and met with a representative of the European Women's Lobby. Incredible!
Hollaback! Czech Republic is the official organization that is leading the way for One Billion Rising Czech Republic! On Thursday, they took to the steps of the National Museum on Wenceslas Square to rise and dance. Check out the amazing photo project they put together for the big day.
Hollaback! Berlin is going strong with their Cats Against Catcalling music compilation. Don't forget to submit by April 15th.
Hollaback! RVA had a SWEET valentines day dance party benefit for Hollaback! RVA. The event was complete with DJ CON and DJ Sean Lovelace and of course, a kissing booth!
Hollaback! Dresden did some rising and dancing this V-day! It was a day of both choreographed and free dancing to fight gender-based violence. Check out details on their site!
Hollaback! Ottawa is meeting with City Councillor Diane Deans and the Chief Constable of OC Transpo this week to talk about ways they can work together to end street harassment on public transit. Many, many of the harassment stories we get at Hollaback! take place on public transit. This is very necessary work, way to go Ottawa!
Hollaback! Baltimore is part of the Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality, a very impressive group of organizations working to advance equal rights for transgender, transsexual, and gender non-conforming people in Maryland. to help ensure equal rights ALL Maryland citizens regardless of gender identity or expression! Way to represent, Bmore Hollas!
Hollaback! Boston posted a roundup of recent happenings in the media and Hollaback! regarding the international discussion on street harassment. Boston also posted on their site about the very awesome new study by some fellow hollas on the positive psychological and behavioral effects of sharing your story of harassment after the harassment happens. Lets not forget what a great opportunity Hollaback! is in so many ways, not just for community, awareness-raising, and fighting inequality, but also for a collective form of healing.
Hollaback! San Francisco took part in SF's Flash Mob Prayerdance at the Civic Center Demonstration and Beyond Borders, the Official V-Day Flash Mob After Party in San Francisco at El Rio.
Hollaback! Poland is doing a fantastic job speaking out in the wake of the Polish national upsurge against politician Janusz Palikot's recent sexist language. Check out their facebook page for articles, and actions they are planning regarding the issue. The site also participated in One Billion Rising, dancing and supporting friends and fellow organizations.
Hollaback! Italia held some very fun rehearsals in preparation for thursday's One Billion Rising. In partnership with One Billion Rising Milan, the site helped get ready for the big day. You can check out photos and updates here!
Hollaback! Chandigarh rose with Chandigarh's One Billion Rising at the Government Museum and Art Gallery this V-Day. There, they participated in discussion and a self-defense workshop.
Hollaback! Dublin got the word out about their local One Billion Rising and why it is important to rise together this V-Day. Check out their site to find out why Hollaback! Dublin is rising!
Hollaback! Melbourne is ON FIRE with their most recent posting in response to a very negative and ignorant comment by someone who came across the site. Read Melbourne's very articulate and animated reply as they take this guy to town!
Fantastic job this week, everyone. Way to dance, rise, speak out, and Hollaback!
Holla and out —
Dear Amazing Hollas—
First and foremost, our Dear John Campaign has launched! The project was spearheaded by our "Mover of the Month" and blogger Tanisha Ramirez in solidarity with One Billion Rising. If you or anyone you know has a bone to pick with a harasser (I mean, don't we all?), send a Dear John letters to email@example.com!
In other news: Hollaback! just won top three safety apps of the 2013! A big thank you and congratulations to Jill Dimond, our Hollaback! developer, as well as Josephine Hall and Amy Palamountain for their hard work and bringing us to this great honor. Also, our Deputy Director Debjani and I were on a Pure Imagination radio show last Friday, listen in, and I had the honor of going to the MAKERS premiere on Wednesday night. The three-hour PBS documentary airs on Tuesday, February 26 at 8PM ET on PBS (check your local listings).
Now let me just say, WOW this has been an impressive week for Hollabackers all over the world! Here is what they're up to:
Hollaback! Halifax was on the radio this week! Listen to Halifax hollas on CBC Maritime Noon discuss what drove them to start Hollaback! Halifax and how people can respond to street harassment. Way to go!
Hollaback! Boston did a team interview this week with our blogger Chloe Safier. Read about why these hollas came together to start Hollaback! Boston. The site is currently raising awareness about the issue of street harassment and race which you can read about here. Also, check out Hollaback! Boston's response and very necessary continuation of this week's Jezebel article,"How to Talk to a Woman Without Being a Creep."
Hollaback! Baltimore did an interview with our blogger Rita Pasarell this week. Find out how hollas Shawna and Melanie got started with Hollaback! and what gets these girls ticking. Also, Hollaback! Baltimore turns 2 years old this week! The site is celebrating with a pre-party and epic Terribly Two birthday bash this Friday. Happy Birthday, hollas!
Hollaback! Brussels got an awesome shout out this week on the blog Brussels is Love, in a post by the author on the tragic objectification of women and harassment that often follows.
Hollaback! Gent's Ilse wrote a great response to a rather inflammatory article in De Standaard online publication. Way to hollaback, Ilse!
Hollaback Israel is fighting harassment on public transportation! Yes, this is part of our story too, folks. Public transportation should be safe and accessible to everyone.
Hollaback! Philly is planning for their day of action on February 19 where they will work in partnership with various UN affiliated organizations to reach out to legislators to make the city of Philadelphia a safer place.
HollaBack!BLN is teaming up with the super fabulous Riot Grrrl Berlin for their next compilation titled, "Cats Against Catcalling." Very cool.
Hollaback! Italy is getting ready for One Billion Rising in Italy! In their most recent blog post, Italy reminds us that this upcoming V-Day is very much a paramount gesture of unity and solidarity as women.
Hollaback! South Africa did a profile on different types of street harassers, helping to provide the anti street harassment community with a straightforward way of determining who we are dealing with each time we are harassed.
Hollaback! Birmingham joins forces with the University of Birmingham's Zero Tolerance Campaign against harassment and bullying. Working side by side with the university, Birmingham hollas are collecting stories and raising awareness of about harassment.
Hollaback! Edinburgh interviewed the amazing Fiona Elvines, the Operations Coordinator at Rape Crisis South London and researcher on street harassment. Read all about Fiona's incredible research in the interview posted on Edinburgh's site.
Hollaback! London's took part in the Reclaim the Night anti-Rape march in Cambridge. Hollaback! London site leader, Julia went up to give a talk at King's Chapel following the march. Check out details about our London hollas' participation in this important citywide event!
Hollaback! Des Moines has launched their first internship program. A very warm Hollaback! welcome to Des Moines' Spring intern Tessa Hopson! Tessa is currently finishing her PharmD with a concentration in women's studies at Drake University.
Hollaback! Croatia is raising awareness about the health education happenings in Croatia. Check out their site for a wealth of information!
Hollaback NYU's Sarah Khan did an exciting HOLLAWho? interview this week with Krista Bedosky. Read how Sarah got started with Hollaback! and how she fights daily street harassment in New York City.
BRILLIANT job this week everyone. What a team! Big week coming up next week, so keep up the momentum, and I am so excited to see what we do!
HOLLA and out —
Dear Hollabackers,
This week was full of excitement with Hollabackers all over the world planning up a storm for One Billion Rising and, in countless creative ways, continuing to get the word out about Hollaback! and our continuing fight to end street harassment. Here in New York, after reading Wednesday's Gawker article highlighting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's habit of regularly degrading women, we decided to holla-back with this public statement. If you haven't already, please read it and share. This is an example of how harassment is NOT a cultural issue or a class issue; it's a global issue that arises at all levels of society. Now is as good a time as ever to fight back and speak out.
Now, lets hear what our amazing sites around the world have been up to:
Hollaback! Berlin has been active in recent online discussions on harassment in Berlin. In recent weeks, the city of berlin has seen an amazing upsurge of women reporting their daily encounters with street harassment throughout social media. In the midst of all this inspiring speaking out, Hollaback! Berlin has done a great job getting the word out about Hollaback! in German blogs such as Femgeeks and Antiprodukt. Check them out!
Hollaback! San Francisco is getting ready for One Billion Rising. Check out the awesome pictures from their flash mob rehearsal last weekend!
Hollaback! Boston has put together an an anti-street harassment new years resolution list. In three easy-to-remember steps, Hollaback! Boston keeps us working towards a harassment-free 2013.
Hollaback! RVA has had quite a week! The site held a successful meeting this past Wednesday, collecting stories about harassment that they will be posting on their blog. Keep your eyes peeled for accounts of street harassment coming from Richmond next week. Hollaback! RVA is also revving its engine for One Billion Rising in Richmond. They are doing some great collaborative work with OBR RVA and are in the middle of preparations for a big Hollaback! RVA benefit. Super exciting stuff.
Hollaback! Istanbul is getting the word out on their site about some disturbing new research on the self-silencing of many women when they feel they are outnumbered. Harassment is very much woven into this story of this silence. Hollaback! pushes against violence at all levels, including the violence of of being silent, especially when in the face of to gender-based harassment. Yes, there is much work to be done!
Hollaback! Italia is doing great work publicizing their work with One Billion Rising Milan. Check out their rehearsal photos and updates on preparations for the big day!
Hollaback! Baltimore is in their final preparations for their birthday bash next Friday, January 9. There will be birthday games, music, dancing, live performances, and pizza donated from our friends at Johnny Rad's!
Hollaback! Brussels has been standing in solidarity with LGBTQ organizations against the Russian Federation's potential passing of discriminatory legislation that would limit the rights of the Russian LGBTQ community. Read the account of their incredible day of solidarity. Hollaback! Brussels is also getting ready for One Billion Rising. Plans for a V-Day filled with discussion, a chalk walk, and dancing are well underway. Brussels Hollabackers are doing some great coordinating with other organizations in the area, assembling a flash mob and a V-Day after party.
Hollaback! Alberta is attending the U of A International-Week 2013 theatre production that depicts real-life stories from individuals who experienced gender-based harassment. Also, Hollaback! Alberta's very own Lauren Alston did a big interview this week. Read it and find out the story of Hollaback! Alberta from beginning to now and where these Hollabackers plan to go from here.
Hollaback! Winnipeg's director, Jodie Layne, speaks out about policies in schools that try to control women's bodies and choice of clothing in Thursday's article, "Leggings Off Limits" in the Winnipeg Free Press. Read Jodie's powerful response to recent restrictions on everyday choices of young women.
Awesome work this week everyone! Keep it truckin'!
HOLLA and Out-
Dear Hollabackers,
Welcome to our weekly update! This week, I was honored to be invited to give a talk at the TEDxWomen conference in Washington D.C. (Click here to view the talk.) We were invited to speak because we won the TED City 2.0 Prize ! The ten winners were awarded for "innovative ideas in urban transformation." On Wednesday I went to Rutgers University in New Jersey to speak on a panel about the roles new technologies play in ending gender-based violence. Big thanks to the Center for Women's Global Leadership for hosting this event. Also, Debjani, our Deputy Director spoke on a panel hosted by the UN Secretary General's UNITE campaign, on the subject of youth engagement in combating gender based violence. Thanks to Jimmie Briggs of the Man Up Campaign for inviting us!
Here's what our Hollaback sites have been up to this week:
Hollaback Ottawa's site leader Julie Lalonde also gave a TED talk! Her speech at TedxSandyHillWomen is not on the web yet but here's more info on the event.
Hollaback Croatia wants your street harassment slogans and images! They are holding a competition from 12/1-1/31 for the best work in both categories. The winner gets cash and lots of Holla love. Check out their website for more details.
Hollaback Halifax is in the news. Click here to read site leader Rebecca Faria's suggestions about how to feel safer on the street.
Hollaback Baltimore's Shawna Potter was on a roll this week. First, she did a fantastic job as a panelist at George Washington University's Global Women's Institute event. Check her out starting at 24:35. She was also interviewed on Escape Velocity Radio.
Hollaback Alberta is co-hosting the screening of The Invisible War, a documentary on sexual assault in the US military, at the University of Alberta.
Lastly, we are sad to announce that Justine Dowden, our International Movement Intern, completes her internship this week. Justine was critical in helping to compile these updates, and gathering news and information about our site leaders and the movement at large. We are grateful to her — and to all of you — for your incredible efforts to keep this movement moving.
HOLLA and out,
Dear Hollabackers,
I am reporting from Washington D.C. today where I am giving a TedxWomen talk. Eeeek! Wish me luck! If you'd like to watch it live, tune in to the live stream on December 1st between 2 and 3:30 EDT.
On the ground in New Your City, our International Movement Fellow Shahinaz led five workshops in NYC this week.
She worked with Young Democrats, We Act for Environmental Justice, Scenarios USA, Crime Victims Treatment Center, and Girls Inc. of NYC. On that note, we're sad to say goodbye to Shahinaz as her fellowship comes to an end and she returns to her home country of Egypt. She has been an incredible asset to our program — and will definitely be missed.
Here's what our site leaders have been up to world-wide:
Hollaback Alberta is supporting a locally developed documentary called "Who Cares?" about the abuse women who work in the sex industry face. They are setting up an info booth at the screening and site leaders have collaborated with a local stencil artist to create art pieces around the documentary's themes.
Hollaback Berlin has had a busy week! First, site leader Julia Brilling was interviewed by the Der Freitag newspaper. German speakers be sure to check out the article here. Also, Julia created a video, along with fellow Hollaback activist Kristen, as part of the One Billion Rising project to end violence against women.
Hollaback Brussels' site leader Angelika Hild was interviewed by National Public Radio! She speaks about the new law which fines street harassers.
Hollaback Gent ladies were interviewed in the major newspaper Der Standaard. They also took part in a Chalk Walk where they wrote anti-street harassment slogans on the street in places where people have been harassed. Here's the event description and some pics from the event.
Great work everyone!
HOLLA and Out,
Dear Hollabackers,
This has been an amazing week and I have lots to share. I'll start here in New York City.
I feel incredibly honored to be chosen as a "Next Maker" in AOL's Makers: Women Who Make America Awards. Five astoundingly powerful women and I were chosen out of a pool of 1,200 applicants. Our stories will be included in a documentary about the feminism movement then and now airing on PBS in February. Read up on the other winners and learn more about this initiative on the Maker's website. Thank you to all the hollabackers, past and present, who have made this possible.
Also, I'll be celebrating the arrival of the book "I still believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacy of Speaking Truth to Power" at an event in NYC this weekend. The section about Hollaback in the book is accompanied by many other stories of feminist visionaries. Get your copy here.
Here's what our sites around the world have been up to:
Hollaback Dublin is hitting the ground running with lots of press before they've even launched. Not only did they make the national news twice already, they were also on a major talk radio show. Even though radio host Ryan Tubridy was unabashedly rude to site leader Aimee Doyle (he actually said "to hell with the PC brigade, there isn't enough wolf-whistling at women going on!"), she repped Hollaback with grace and poise. I couldn't be more proud of Aimee and the Dublin site, our new family members.
Hollaback Edinburgh's new tumblr called "Said No One Ever" cracks me up. Be sure to check it out.
Hollaback Brussels held a HOLLA Support Action Team meeting to recruit new volunteers. It was a big success and they brought some great people on board.
Hollaback Richmond recruited some hollabackers this week too by hosting a volunteer interest meeting. RVA has also been actively spreading awareness about the street harassment that the LGBTQ community faces, especially transgender people. Each day in November they are sharing stories of the many transgender lives lost due to gender-based and hate violence. Please click here to learn more.
Hollaback Baltimore is conducting a survey to assess the ground reality of street harassment. Take 10 minutes and give them a hand by filling it out.
Let's keep this movement going together.
HOLLA and out —


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Can today's NLF Wildcard Weekend Playoff games top yesterday's?
I'm hoping that today's match-ups between the Giants and Falcons and Steelers and Broncos instill a bit more interest.
Yesterday's Bengals vs. Texans was entertaining for one half before Houston literally ran away from Cincy. And as for the Lions vs. Saints … we all knew deep down how that game was going to turn out. The Lions are missing many pieces … and Mr. Suh was completely invisible. Clearly, the New Orleans was the best team playing yesterday and will probably show that, with the Packers, stand head and shoulders above the rest of the field.
So, with the Giants getting set to kick-off with the Falcons, I have a feeling that somehow Mr. Manning will find a way to win this one … but does it matter to the Packers? Probably not. I feel they will be ready next weekend for whichever team steps on the Lambeau Field turf.
So, without any more hype, who wins today?
Take the poll and enjoy the games.
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Behind the Scenes in Hollywood: Jessica Harbeck
AE: While we've been talking, I've been looking at headshots on your Stuntwomen's Association website. You guys are all hot!
JH: Yeah, we like to think so! [laughs] No. It's different for all of us. Some girls like to wake up in the morning and put on the makeup and get cute. For me, it's like, "Shoot me." It's a chore. I'd rather die. The only time I put on makeup is when I go to work. I consider it being in drag. You even have to mimic the way the actress carries herself.
AE: What does that entail?
JH: They all walk differently, they all run differently, maybe stand with their hand on their hip in a certain way. We have to make it look like it's them.
AE: Are there an inordinate number of lesbians in the stunt business?
JH: The few that are, we all know each other. But there really aren't many.
AE: I find that surprising. This is a job tailor-made for lesbians. I could just be talking about myself, mind you.
JH: I wish I had an answer for that. It is really tough. I mean, you have to be in top shape to do it.
On the set of CSI:NY
AE: OK, forget what I said about me. Do you get to do high falls?
JH: I do height falls, but I'm not a high fall expert. There are women in my group who do that. They do falls from over 90 feet.
AE: As computer-generated special effects become more sophisticated, will they eventually take the place of traditional stunt work?
JH: We work hand-in-hand with special effects. They complement each other. You know, Avatar was a huge stunt movie. Stunts are here, and you will always need stunt people. Nothing can replace a human body hitting the ground.
AE: I've always said that! What should the would-be stuntwoman know?
JH: I would say the first thing is do not take no for an answer. Move to LA and promise yourself that you will truly do whatever it takes because it's not going to happen overnight. It's not going to be easy, people aren't always going to be nice. But if you have that drive inside of you, you will start to meet the right people and things will start to go your way.
AE: I said advice for stuntwomen, not writers.
JH: Well, show business can be heartbreak.
AE: Do you have a girlfriend right now?
JH: No, I'm single.
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Pictured above with Brother Rob Veselsky are CBU's current Lasallian Volunteers (l-r): Katie Quinton ('09), Jamie Jaynes ('09), Samantha Almanza ('09), Kelly Townes ('09), Antony Eddy ('09), and Thais Hunter ('08). Katie, Samantha, Kelly, Antony, and Thais will join over 100 Lasallian Volunteers, former volunteers, family, and friends from around the country in Newport, RI on October 18 to participate in the Amica Marathon, Half-Marathon, and Marathon Relay. In an effort to give back to the LV program and ensure its future, the volunteers are coordinating this marathon fundraiser with a goal of $60,000. Currently, the six CBU alumni volunteers are serving in five different ministries across the U.S. Founded in the spirit of St. John Baptist de La Salle, the volunteers seek to break the cycle of poverty through education-based initiatives, transforming lives, and giving disadvantaged kids the opportunity for a better, brighter future. You can help support the marathon by adopting a runner (click here) or make a donation here.
Dr. John Smarrelli Jr., president of CBU, threw out the first pitch at the September 6 Memphis Redbirds game (left) and got a few pointers from Redbirds pitcher Matthew Scherer (right), an alumnus of Le Moyne College who was selected by the Cardinals in the June 2004 First-Year Player Draft. Dr. Smarrelli, also an alumnus of Le Moyne, served there prior to coming to CBU as special assistant to the president, as interim president, and as provost. The Redbirds defeated the Oklahoma City RedHawks, 6-1.
• Dr. Frank Buscher (Academics) and Dr. Pete Gathje (formerly Religion & Philosophy) joined numerous other over-the-hill runners to assist with CBU's Twilight Classic, one of the largest nighttime track meets in the country. Taking advantage of the unusually cool August weather, Buscher set a personal record in two five-milers, including the 36th Overton Park Classic.
• Pam Hassler (Fine Arts & Speech/Adjunct) received a commission from St. Peter Catholic Church to create an icon of St. Martin de Porres (pictured at right) for the Shrine of St. Martin de Porres. The consecration of the icon will take place in a service at the church at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3. This is the seventh icon Ms. Hassler has created for the Shrine. Her work is also currently being shown at the new Jay Etkin Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. "The Memphis Show," as it is titled, includes a selection of contemporary works.
• Elisa C. Marus (Communications & Marketing) has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Tennessee College Public Relations Association (TCPRA). She is one of eight professionals across the state appointed. Formed in 1975, TCPRA is an alliance of communicators who represent the colleges and universities, that together define and create a voice for higher education in Tennessee.
• Binh Nguyen (Electrical & Computer Engineering '10), chair of the IEEE student branch at CBU, was awarded a $1200 stipend from John Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth program. Binh was assigned a group of very bright and talented middle and high school students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and served this summer as a teaching assistant in a fast-paced Electrical Engineering course. Binh was responsible for teaching the laboratories, study sessions, and assisting in class lectures. The students built three different solar powered robots each capable of performing a specific task.
• Lady Buc middle hitter Hanna Orendorff (Natural Science '10) was named the Gulf South Conference West Division Offensive Player of the Week for the period ending September 1. She led the Lady Bucs to a 3-1 weekend, hitting .350 for the weekend with 50 kills in 103 attempts, reaching double figures in each match.
• Bethany King Robinson (Graduate Engineering) has been elected chair of the Memphis-Area Joint Engineers Council (MJEC). Dr. John Ventura (Electrical & Computer Engineering) has been elected vice-chair of MJEC. MJEC is an umbrella organization for over 20 engineering organizations and engineering educational institutions in the Memphis area.
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• Need money? Want to work on campus? The Advancement Office is looking for dynamic, articulate, and responsible students for evening and Sunday phonathon positions for its Fall and Spring Campaigns. Student callers call alumni and friends of the University and ask for support of the Fund for CBU. Starting pay is $7.25 per hour, and additional benefits include a great work environment and marketing job experience. Training will take place October 1, and calling will begin Monday, October 5. There are a limited number of positions available. To apply, please stop by the Advancement Office on the main floor of Barry Hall, Room 101, and pick up a job description and an application. Contact Aimee Lewis, Director of the Fund for CBU, at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have questions.
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elder person's home) and individuals with whom such a preexisting special relationship does not exist (Kosberg and Nahmiash, 1996; Marshall et al., 2000; National Center on Elder Abuse, 1996, 2001).7 Within domestic settings, it has been reported that the perpetrators of elder abuse are much more likely to be family members (National Center on Elder Abuse, 1996).
Although conceptualizations of what elder abuse encompasses vary considerably, the National Center on Elder Abuse (2001) identifies six major categories of elder abuse. They include physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, neglect, abandonment, and financial abuse. Among these categories, financial abuse has received limited attention and is often not assessed in studies of elder abuse (Choi et al., 1999; Kleinschmidt, 1997; Tueth, 2000). Nonetheless, financial abuse is increasingly viewed as both sufficiently important to necessitate its inclusion in studies of elder abuse in general and sufficiently distinct to justify addressing it separately (Choi and Mayer, 2000).
The remainder of this report focuses on financial abuse of the elderly within a domestic setting by individuals relatively well known to the elder person. This focus encompasses financial abuse by family members, friends, and caregivers of the elder person and excludes financial abuse within institutional settings or by strangers. Domestic settings are not only a frequent setting for this abuse,8 but their tendency to involve complex family dynamics and deep-seated conflicts tends to make them particularly challenging. Although financial abuse of the elderly within institutional settings (e.g., within nursing homes) and by strangers (e.g., in the course of consumer fraud) are serious concerns in their own right and in need of systematic study (of which little has been generated to date),9 they are not the foci of this report.
To address financial abuse of the elderly, its parameters should first be defined. Variously referred to as financial mistreatment; exploitation; or fiduciary, economic, or material abuse, this type of abuse encompasses a
The latter would encompass most incidents of consumer fraud.
About 80 percent of the estimated 6 million dependent elders in this country are cared for at home" (National Center on Elder Abuse, 1996:11–12). Furthermore, although little research has been conducted on financial abuse within institutional settings, recent studies identifying the top 10 deficiencies in long-term care facilities identified physical abuse or neglect more frequently than financial abuse (Menio and Keller, 2000).
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The right wing Christian News Network have accused the United Church of Christ of practicing apostasy for their involvement in this year's Gay Games in Cleveland, Ohio this month
Articles which appeared on US Christian news websites CrossMap and ChristianNews.net circulated by the Christian News Network have accused members of America's United Church of Christ of committing apostasy by being a major sponsor of this year's Gay Games, accusing them of abandoning Biblical principles.
'Being the Silver Sponsor, Apostate United Church of Christ Sponsoring Ohio's Gay Games,' one headline read.
The 2010 Olympian plans to marry stylist Saul Carrasco
Speed skater Blake Skjellerup is officially off the market.
Skjellerup, who represented New Zealand in the 2010 Olympics, has announced via social media that he has become engaged to stylist Saul Carrasco.
The 29 year old is currently in Cleveland, Ohio, this week working as an official ambassador for the Gay Games which kicked off on Friday (8 August).
Skjellerup came out four months after he competed in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver where he finished 16th.
'It's been remarkable to see the Games thrive over the years'
US President Barack Obama welcomed the participants of the Gay Games with a opening ceremony video.
'Since 1982, the Gay Games have given lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered athletes, and supporters around the world, a chance to come together to compete, celebrate, ad inspire others,' the president said in his 9 August taped comments.
The Games are held every four years, just like the Olympics. Cleveland is this year's host.
Obama noted the progress the Games made since the early 1980s.
Over 11,000 LGBT and ally athletes converge on Cleveland, Ohio to compete in over 30 sport categories
Gay sport and entertainment icons will kick off the 9th Gay Games, held in Cleveland, Ohio this year.
Former pop star Lance Bass and R&B girl group Pointer Sisters will be joined by openly gay former Olympic diver Greg Louganis on 9 August to welcome thousands of athletes and supporters to what is considered one of the most inclusive sports & cultural festivals in the world.
The LGBTI affirming American United Church of Christ has signed on to be one of the official sponsors of this year's Gay Games taking place in the Ohio cities of Cleveland and Akron in August
The United States' United Church of Christ has been announced as a sponsor of Gay Games 9 – taking place in the Ohio cities of Akron and Cleveland from 9 to 16 August this year.
The United Church of Christ is one of the oldest LGBTI affirming religious denominations in the world, coming out against the criminalization of homosexuality in 1969 and the church has supported marriage equality since 2005.
Cher said no, and the world listened. From ballet demonstrations to national commercials, from tweets to open letters, here are the 14 ways the world came together for the Russian LGBTI community
Did you pour your Stoli vodka down a drain, or stop eating McDonald's during the Winter Olympics?
In recent months Russia has been at the center of a civil rights firestorm, between president Putin signing anti-gay laws to politicians threatening LGBTI Olympic athletes and spectators.
Even though the Sochi Winter Olympics wrapped up this weekend, the reactions to Russia's anti-gay laws are still being seen, heard and felt around the world.
Vitaly Milonov, who says gay people rape kids and are violent towards straights, has said a gay contest must take place behind closed doors
A Russian lawmaker who sponsored the federal gay propaganda law wants Moscow's 'Gay Olympics' banned.
Vitaly Milonov has urged Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to ban the LGBT Sports Games that is being planned to be held shortly after the Sochi Winter Games.
The lawmaker has become a central figure in the battle on gay rights in Russia after he authored the original 'gay propaganda' bill in St Petersburg before it became federal law.
Gareth Thomas, the first professional rugby player to come out as gay, adds his opinion to the ongoing debate as to whether gay athletes should participate in the upcoming Russian Olympics given the country's laws against homosexuality
Gareth Thomas believes nothing should hold gay athletes back from participating in the Sochi Winter Olympics, not even anti-gay laws.
The openly gay retired rugby player discussed the 2014 Winter Olympics in an interview with Youtube sport channel Sportlobster TV, adding to the debate and concern as to whether gay and lesbian athletes should compete in the games because host countries Qatar and Russia have strong laws against homosexuality.
A gay Russian LGBTI group is planning to hold a series of sports events to celebrate diversity in Russian sport
A Russian LGBT group is planning a 'Gay Olympics' to take place in Russia after the Sochi Winter Games.
Viktor Romanov, the chairman of Russian LGBT Sport Federation, said the event for Russian athletes was set to take place in February.
The Russian Open Games in Moscow say while the event is in direct response Vladimir Putin's homophobic laws - it will not break them.
City of Love beats out finalists London and Limerick
Gay Paree will be even more gay in the summer of 2018 when it plays host to Gay Games X.
The Federation of Gay Games made the announcement this afternoon (7 October) in Cleveland, Ohio, site of Gay Games IV next summer. After three days of deliberation, Paris emerged as the victor over fellow finalists, London, England and Limerick, Ireland.
Orlando and Amsterdam had earlier been eliminated in a preliminary vote last spring.
Irish leader has written to the Gay Games organizers saying potential host city Limerick is a testament to the country's greenery and song
Prime Minister Enda Kenny has backed Ireland's bid to host the Gay Games in 2018.
The Irish leader has written a letter to the Federation of Gay Games.
While Limerick is competing against Paris and London to host the athletic events, Kenny guaranteed a traditional welcome.
'The beauty of Ireland's lush green landscape has been immortalized in paint and in song and Limerick City and its surrounds are testament to that legacy,' he said.
Cleveland officials say repeated calls place 'an undue and inappropriate burden on the taxpayers'
The city of Cleveland in Ohio - due to host the 2014 Gay Games next summer - has asked a gay bar where two recent homophobic attacks against customers took place to quit calling police so often.
The owner of Cleveland's Cocktail Lounge received a letter this week from the director of the Department of Public Safety complaining that in the span of 12 months, police had been called to the business nine times.
The International Olympic Committee needs to show its commitment to both helping Russia's LGBT community through the Sochi Winter Olympics and tackling homophobia in sport
As the approach of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games raises attention to the official and unofficial homophobia of host country Russia, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) responses, or lack thereof, are increasingly disturbing.
Despite the rising calls for action, the IOC has remained impervious to appeals to work together to identify the problem and propose solutions.
Russian and international LGBT sports groups call on everyone at Sochi to hold hands with someone of the same sex to show solidarity with Russia's LGBT people
Russian and international LGBT sports organizations have united to ask people to hold hands at the Winter Olympics in defiance of Russia's anti-gay laws.
Campaigners say the same-sex handholding campaign will be easier to organize, and harder for the authorities to stop, than other proposals like wearing rainbow pins at Sochi.
The move comes after Gay Star News revealed the International Olympic Committee may enforce it's own bye-law to punish any athletes who try to help Russian LGBT people by spreading gay 'propaganda' at the games.
'We know that LGBT athletes are not alone in being revolted by these laws and the behavior of Russian authorities'
A coalition that includes some of the largest international LGBT sports organizations is calling on the International Olympic Committee to host a Sochi Pride House at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The request comes due to host Russia's recently enacted anti-gay laws which have others calling for a complete boycott of the games.
The UK's deputy prime minister is backing London2018, but the race to hold the tenth Gay Games event remains too close to call.
2018 may seem a long way away, but the competition to host the Gay Games event in that year is now into its final stages.
The Gay Games were founded in 1982, and 2018 will see the tenth edition of this quadrennial event that brings together around 10,000 athletes, artists and activists from around the world to participate in over 30 sports and culture events.
After a disappointing year, London Pride is back bigger and better with big acts, themed nights out, and a family day out
After the disappointment of London Pride last year, the England capital had to step it up.
But with a brand new team of organizers, this weekend is set to bring a new rainbow to London.
Several athletes will also be attending, with Pride supporting London's bid to host the next Gay Games.
With 150 groups parading through the heart of the capital and attracting hundreds of thousands, it is shaping up to be one of the best Prides yet.
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We're ready for the return of Lauryn Hill
This winter, a small string of East Coast tour dates cropped up on the music scene's radar, and they belong to none other than Lauryn Hill. The ex-Fugees star hasn't released a record 2002's Unplugged 2.0. Her only solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, won multiple Grammys and was a total smash when it debuted in 1998, and fans have been clamoring for her to come back for some time. This year, news began to crop up of her reappearance, the most recent being a small number of shows in Boston, New York and Miami.
In July, when Hill performed at the Rock The Bells Festival, MTV News tried to chat the singer up about details of a new album, but her response only included a chuckle and that "we're getting closer."
She made one other appearance this summer at the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, CA, at which she graced NPR with an interview — albeit a brief one. Ms. Hill articulated much about her voice and the power of her music, but gave no concrete details about a new album. She only speculated about what direction her sound would take if she were to record something new, saying:
I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more … With The Fugees initially, and even with Miseducation, it was very hip-hop — always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more."
Whether she sings out, whispers, raps or hums, people will surely be eager to hear whatever music Ms. Hill is making next. During her hiatus, she's had five children with Rohan Marley, Bob Marley's son, and has largely avoided a public life. When asked about why she stopped making music after the huge success of Miseducation, Hill told NPR:
There were a number of different reasons … But partly, the support system that I needed was not necessarily in place … In fact, as musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment — and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the [music] industry, that really nurtures these gifts.
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