SuaveSocialist said:
If there is one thing that is legitimately holding video games back from being regarded seriously as an artistic medium, it is how some guys respond to the criticism of the sexism which exists in the industry, the games themselves and the gaming community. The methodology and tone some guys take is eerily similar to the tantrum guys threw when women stepped up for the right to wear pants and the right to vote. |
Except there isn't really a significant pushback against women in gaming. For the most part, GamerGaters embrace diversity (as shown by #NotYourShield). The pushback is largely against corruption and the sort of outrage culture that modern feminism has spawned. I think that the vast majority of people on both sides believe that harassment is wrong, but the ways that this harassment is being used as a means of furthering an agenda is disgusting to say the least.
PS: Also worth noting that when women stepped up for the right to vote, a large part of the opposition were actually women. I believe it was Feminist Christana Hoff Sommers who said something along the lines of "The men would have been easy to convince if the suffragists could just convince the women".
