| Miguel_Zorro said: I'm not one who is bothered by women being in video games, even in a few instances where it seemed that they really stretched to make a character female. It's not a big deal for me. There are a few issues with feminism that cause people to view it in a negative light. 1) Feminism is not a gender-neutral term. If equality was truly the goal rather than simply advocacy for women, they wouldn't use the word feminism. It doesn't mean equality any more than masculism does. 2) Many Feminists frequently use false or misleading stats and examples to intentionally distort situations. An example is the "wage gap", which ignores variables that lead to differences in pay and incorrectly attributes it entirely to gender. It's about as valid as saying people in New York City make more than people in South Dakota, which must be a sign of discrimination against people in South Dakota. 3) Many feminists blame men for every problem under the sun. In many cases men are not the primary cause of these problems. |
Those are good points.
Those false statistics ultimately hurt the cause, too. I remember someone once posting a long list of feminist stats as an argument of inequality. Even just looking at a handful, I found several that were highly controversial and some that were just flat-out manipulations of data. One of them was the infamous case where the "researcher" used a definition of rape that included pretty much everyone. I think I qualified because a stray cat once rubbed against my leg.
All that does is make all the arguments feel untrustworthy.
