| binary solo said: There is no equivalence between someone sleeping their way to get ahead and someone making sexist and offensive statements. This thread is creating false equivalency which is mischevious and wrong. I don't think what Zoe Quinn did was right or a reasonable tactic. In fact any inducement, sexual or otherwise, to obtain favourable write ups in the press is a corrupt practice. The fact it was sex in this case is actually irrelevant, all it does is give some people to show some sort of false moral outrage. If you want to compare this to something legit, then how about the various corrupt practices that keep being alleged about game reviews being bought and paid for by less salacious means? That's the legit comparison, and those non-sexual inducements get less serious press time than this one did. So in fact there's an argument to make that blowing this up is sexist, because other ways of buying off the gaming press are, if not accepted, quietly tolerated. But shock horror as soon as it is someone with little material means using sex instead of money, or free swag suddenly it's and absolute outrage. It's Ok if men do manly things to get themselves ahead, but woe betide a woman if she tries to play that corrupt game using the cards she's been dealt. What happened to someone who made derogatory statements about 50% of the world's population is completely irrelevant. Clean up the major corruption in the gaming press before you go vilifying this woman for a very minor incident in the grand scheme of things. |
but you see there is a massive difference between what happened here and the claims of gaming press being bought off
and the difference is evidence and associated identified people
in terms of the press being bought off what gaming site/blog/show etc was bought off? who paid money? who took money? what was the subsequent media about the topic?
to my knowledge evidence like this is lacking with the alleged cases of gaming press being bought off whereas in this situation we actually do have more evidence to focus on
its also worthwhile to keep in mind that some of the claims of press being bought off seems to stem from disagreements between consumers and producers with regards to ratings on games which is expected since its subjective
so we have a situation where lets say for example a reviewer genuinely likes the newest CoD but a gamer who hates the whole series says "oh he's bought off because CoD is shit"
