Former IGN And GameSpot Journalists Threaten Play-Asia For Supporting Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3

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Aielyn said:

Ruler said:
Apparently supporting a game that’s no longer coming to a region because the publisher wants to avoid all the political nonsense surrounding gender politics is now a bad thing. Popular import e-tailer Play-Asia came out and made a statement supporting Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja’s Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, a sexually suggestive beach volleyball game for the PS Vita and PS4. However, game journalists, former game journalists and some recognized names in the gaming industry have threatened Play-Asia with blacklists.

Anybody that invokes phrases like "political nonsense surrounding gender politics" is, without a doubt, sexist. Keep in mind it's the choice of phrase that is indicative - you could make an equivalent point, if you're not sexist, by simply saying "gender politics". The "policital nonsense surrounding" part is the key problem.

When you start to invoke phrases like "social justice warrior" as your counter to an argument that something so "sexually suggestive" in a gender-specific way (you'd never see the equivalent with male characters) is inappropriate in this day and age, you immediately lose the argument.

Basically, invoking "social justice warrior" is like invoking "hitler" - the first person to do it is immediately the loser of the argument.

It is certainly a little childish to refuse to support Play-Asia specifically because they're selling DoA X3. It's a whole lot more childish to condemn people over such a decision and to use sweeping, sexist language to justify it.

I couldn't agree more. The problem is not them selling the game, it is the pharsing they used  "#SJW nonsense".