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I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.



I actually don't know either, but judging from all the other responses from this thread, I don't think I wanna know.



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Volterra_90 said:
I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.

no she has not, there are no studies that link violence, sexism or rasicm in media to violence, sexism or racism in the real world.



Ultrashroomz said:
I actually don't know either, but judging from all the other responses from this thread, I don't think I wanna know.

Same, just gave a look at wikipedia and I don't think I want to read the rest.



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Volterra_90 said:
I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.


What point does she have? It's a shame that she was able to fool so many people with misinformation.



generic-user-1 said:
it was a response to SJW taking over videogame journalism.
and it failed, hard, gaming journalism is still infested by SJW and ethicless shitheads who push an agenda.

some of those sites went so far and published a lot of antigamer propaganda pieces.

now its mostly making fun of realy stupid people like anita sarkeesian and the batshit crazy ideas they have.


This x1000

I have to say that it's sad to read these responses. Seriously unethical (and sometimes illegal) practices were exposed in the gaming media centering around this bizarre propaganda movement and the accused did a terrible job of hidding their actions. All of the information is freely available and nobody cares. The Social Justice campaign against #gamrgate has so little merit and it actually fools people and I don't understand how. Oh well, it's not like I went to Kotaku or Polygon anyway :/

Edit: You know what's scary? In addition to using everything from false alligations and slander to DDoSing the Social Justice movement also used its widespread connections in the media. I wonder who is backing this movement and why they're pushing this agenda.



generic-user-1 said:
Volterra_90 said:
I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.

no she has not, there are no studies that link violence, sexism or rasicm in media to violence, sexism or racism in the real world.

Sorry, I will explain myself better. I don't think that there's a link between violence, sexism and racism in videogames/movie with violence in real world, I give you that. I don't agree with Anita Sarkeesian when she said that, but I agree that there are sexism in some videogames. Take for example MGSV, it's an amazing game, but Quiet is an stupid character. It's only naked because yes, she's always showing herself in the cam like... I don't know, it's silly and sexist. But that doesn't mean people who play videogames are sexist. I found it silly and ridiculous, but I can overpass it. And there are more examples of sexism in games, I think that's actually a fact. In this topic I think she's right. 



Volterra_90 said:
generic-user-1 said:
Volterra_90 said:
I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.

no she has not, there are no studies that link violence, sexism or rasicm in media to violence, sexism or racism in the real world.

Sorry, I will explain myself better. I don't think that there's a link between violence, sexism and racism in videogames/movie with violence in real world, I give you that. I don't agree with Anita Sarkeesian when she said that, but I agree that there are sexism in some videogames. Take for example MGSV, it's an amazing game, but Quiet is an stupid character. It's only naked because yes, she's always showing herself in the cam like... I don't know, it's silly and sexist. But that doesn't mean people who play videogames are sexist. I found it silly and ridiculous, but I can overpass it. And there are more examples of sexism in games, I think that's actually a fact. In this topic I think she's right. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism

Someone using their body to gain an advantage is not sexism tho, it is a branch of feminism which gained a lot of popularity in the 80s which basically runs under the ideas that woman should use all the tools they have to further themselves.

I'm sorry if that doesn't exactly related to the mgs5 character I've not had the pleasure of playing that game yet but hopefully you see that a naked woman isn't sexism?



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Volterra_90 said:
generic-user-1 said:
Volterra_90 said:
I'm not entirely sure, I only know about Anita Sarkeesian. And I have to admit, I think she had a point in her videos. But people has blown it out of all proportion.

no she has not, there are no studies that link violence, sexism or rasicm in media to violence, sexism or racism in the real world.

Sorry, I will explain myself better. I don't think that there's a link between violence, sexism and racism in videogames/movie with violence in real world, I give you that. I don't agree with Anita Sarkeesian when she said that, but I agree that there are sexism in some videogames. Take for example MGSV, it's an amazing game, but Quiet is an stupid character. It's only naked because yes, she's always showing herself in the cam like... I don't know, it's silly and sexist. But that doesn't mean people who play videogames are sexist. I found it silly and ridiculous, but I can overpass it. And there are more examples of sexism in games, I think that's actually a fact. In this topic I think she's right. 

thats not realy the point she makes, she talks about every women in every videogame.

and no quiets character isnt sexist, it totaly fine for a women to act like that if she wants to, thats what feminist fought for some decades ago, same goes for bayo.