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wombat123 on 02 April 2016
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Illusion said:

The Gamergate crowd has an important lesson to learn from this and that is the concept of a martyr. If somebody is a public face of a movement that you disagree with you DO NOT fight the movement by attacking the face as you will just prove yourself to be all the more bad in the eyes of your opponents. Opposition will grow towards you as a result and the ideals that you oppose will advance.

Gamergate likely had nothing to do with the firing of Alison, but Nintendo has to now treat their decision to fire this lady as though it were a show of partisan support towards the Gamergate crowd thanks to the petty attacks that preceded her firing. As a result, Nintendo is going to have to be more lenient to the feminists in the future in order for the company to restore a balanced public image.  This could mean letting things in like a female Link in Zelda U which I feel would be a far bigger loss for us than if we had just left Alison alone as a Nintendo employee who really didn't hold any sway on the content in games.

In short, the real losers here is the pro-Gamergate crowd: we have now made a martyr out of Alison and we will suffer the consequences. In the future, we need to attack the ideas of our opponents but show respect toward the people with whom we disagree: this will add legitimacy to the Gamergate movement.

No they don't.  All you have to do is show people the fact that she was moonlighting as a lewd model and used her twitter account (which said plain as day that she worked for family friendly NIntendo) to advertise it.  She even posed with a 3DS in some of them -- I mean, my god, she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer if that's any indication of her intelligence.  In fact, I think NOA knows that if they bend to  SJWs, feminists and the games media even once, then those groups own their asses -- you can see examples popping up everyday from Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft and so on.  You kowtow to them once and you'll be doing it forever because they cannot and will not be appeased or satisfied. 

In reality, the Allison Rapp defense is just a show of force by these groups.  They don't give a crap about Rapp; they just want to make an example out of Nintendo so that all the other companies don't oppose social justice and feminism  -- the problem is that this is a horrible way to attack Nintendo considering all the facts are on Nintendo's side.  And even if NOA does kneel before them, NCL doesn't give a crap about what westerners want.  It's one of the few blessings of being a fan of a Japanese company led by stubborn people who think very little about the opinions of the western market.

Also, the hypocrisy of the people bitching about Nintendo firing Rapp for NSFW modeling is laughable considering a lot of those same people also whined and bitched about dancers at Microsoft's GDC party and Tracer's butt pose in Overwatch eariler this month.  I guess lewd stuff is only okay to them if you subscribe to the 'right' politics -- then it turns into 'empowering' or some other crap.