| Mr Khan said: Everything has to have a start (though i must say i really agree with your post here). I mean, the touching-off point (at least in the popular viewpoint) for the American Civil Rights movement was something as trivial as who gets to sit where on a bus, the kind of crap that elementary school kids get upset about. |
Uh... that's not trivial. That's saying, "When I come along, you jump out of the way because you're inferior." It wasn't a triviality, it was something that was emblematic of the overall situation for black people.
What we have here is people gnashing their teeth in rage that Notch may or may not have paid women to show up at a party and flirt and take silly pictures. He maintains that he didn't, and there is literally no evidence that he did except for a girl who works for a gaming website saying, "Well, I talked to someone who talked to someone who said she was being paid $300 an hour to be there."
I mean, this is the shit he's dealing with:
"Whether or not you FEEL that you did, other people FEEL that you did."
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. "I FEEL you have aggressed against my gender because you're a rich man and I'm a neurotic fuckwit, and I deserve to be taken seriously because I FEEL that I do." The only thing Notch has done wrong here was being excessively nice about it to the point of agreeing to meet her at a restaurant and talk it over when she is being this unreasonable.
If every controversy or non-troversy can't simply be about whatever it's about but about the overall role of women in the industry, nothing good is going to come of it. You're not going to get better depiction of women in games or more female studio heads or whatever it is by shrieking at Notch for maybe hiring hostesses for a party and turning him into a scapegoat for every slight or injustice experienced by a person with a vagina in the gaming industry. You're just going to come off looking like a bunch of angry harpies with chips on their shoulders.
Or worse. Like the stereotypical insecure women who hate all other women, especially ones they perceive to be prettier than they are. One of her arguments is, "People are saying that there were an excessive amount of ridiculously hot women in the VIP room?" Hot women in the VIP room of a club?! No fucking way! This fucking patriarchy, I tells ya!
