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FragilE^ on 22 February 2015
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danasider said:
FragilE^ said:
danasider said:
She's awesome. I love gaming, but in its current state, sexism, homophobia and racism are rampant. I'm glad she has the guts to say the things she does. People who aren't affected by these things are the people who bash her (mostly out of ignorance and partially out of denial). What can I say? Haters gonna hate.


#NotYourShield

Did you ignore it on purpose, or are you just blind?

I did not know about this, but I checked it out. Even so, no need to be rude in your question. Would you really talk that aggressively to someone's face when trying to get information out of them? If so, I am sad for you.


Either way, that project doesn't speak for all gamers and neither does Anita Sarkessian. Some people do feel gender politics and things other than a fantasy character's design are subjects that need to be addressed. This method of pushing aside the interests of a significant (maybe not majority, but still not insignificant) portion of the industry's consumers and acting like anyone who speaks up for it is a "white knight" is just a defense mechanism used to shame people.

 

If you like Jim Sterling, check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnTunPrQJo

The passive aggressiveness is strong with this one.

I never said anything about the "issue". Yes, there are things that should be discussed. They are being discussed though. Things are happening. Anita has nothing to do with that. If you're gonna throw out blanket statements about how "Most" of the consumers are, "anyone who speaks up", "sexism is rampant" then you lack ground. Your arguments hold no weight with stuff like that. Show me some numbers. And again, I never said anything about this being a non-issue or something along those lines, I'm just saying that Anita is full of shit.

What do you want to say with Jim's video? I can only interpret this as your "evidence" for how horrible gamers and the gaming industry is. Maybe you wanted to say something else. Feel free to correct me.
The only thing he really "proves" is that the market decides the products. Yeah, there are some games done in poor taste or whatever. Some are done well. Some rocks are big, some rocks are small.