| pokoko said: The "male = bad, female = good" rhetoric prevalent now... |
| VAMatt said: I think your understanding of the problems at Activision is wrong. Rape threats and sexual violence are definitely not what this is primarily about. They're a tiny little sliver of it. Most of it is your more run of the mill sexual harassment, women being taken less seriously, passed up for promotions, and the like. |
Yep, it's U.S. Women's History Month on VGC.
TallSilhouette said:
Well, I linked to several such examples in the OP (particularly the third video, forum-wise). If you're talking about VGC specifically, that scarcity of open members of the community and the site's...less than perfect search function makes it difficult for me to relocate particular instances of toxic interactions. Jaicee could probably give you some personal examples if she wanted, as could Onionberry if she were still around. I haven't been active as long as others here but I struggle to recall any other female members I'm personally familiar with. |
While I wouldn't say that I've experienced a lot of sexual harassment here on VGC (save for from one member very publicly the other summer who is now gone), when I first joined some five years ago, this forum was I would say about 75% more sexist than it is today, to an extent that was intimidating for me, to which end I didn't post very much in my first year here. VGC used to be rife with "waifu" contests and self-described "manosphere" people of all sorts and so forth that I always found demeaning and off-putting and can't help, you know, not missing. (In the interim, I think both the forum rules and median age of forum members have both changed somewhat and I suspect both of those things have been factors.) For a while in 2018, I took to documenting examples of threads, and the occasional individual post, that struck me as especially hostile in nature just to have reference points. I didn't even bother with the low-hanging fruit in the NSFW sub-forum because that was too easy and obvious, mind you, as basically that whole sub-forum is one gigantic cesspool of misogyny, and it used to be more so than today back when it was more active. Anyway, the task became so continuous and overwhelming though do to the sheer volume of examples that I eventually abandoned the effort. But to highlight just a few of what I consider the classics that I did document back then, I would just reference the following threads, along with a fun individual post to the same effect:
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The principal example though I like to turn to is the, by number of views, most popular article ever posted to the VGC main page, which is essentially a defense of pedophilia from around the same point in time, written and sponsored by the staff itself. It was this article that inspired me to start documenting anti-female threads and content for a time. That this was the most popular article ever posted here to me just said everything that needed to be said about the forum's target audience. All one has to do is read the most up-voted comment to gather what the intended response/effect was.
