| WereKitten said: No, it's not. It's tangential at best, if not a plain strawman. In this thread as well as in the writings of the involved people it's quite clear how this was inappropriate and who felt offended. There were no grand generic claims of something being "offensive for anyone". On the contrary, there are specifics about the gender issues in the industry, how they were addressed in panels and interviews (by the IGDA representative!) at GDC and how stupid and incongruous it was to resort to boy club shenanigans the very same day. Politically correctness can be a drag when it stifles a serene discussion between disagreeing but ultimately fairly balanced parties. When one party is objectively oppressed by a hostile environment and fighting to raise to equality, not giving a damn about how they feel is not championing free speech. It's being jerks. |
The women are described as "scantily clad" when they were nothing of the sort, and these "inappropriate activities" appear to be just dancing.
So when a woman does anything you deem to be inappropriate, wearing something you deem to be classified as "scantily clad", of her own volition and free will, you personally find that offensive?
This is something I really don't understand about modern feminism. How can you simultaneously say that women should be free to do as they wish without anyone telling them what to do, and in the same breath tell them what to do under the rather transparent disguise of saying "oh, they don't really want to do it, society is making them."
So instead of being conditioned by society and having some free will in the matter, you should tell them how they are allowed to behave and blame other people when they decide to do something you disapprove of.
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