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by serial malcontent 09/16/2014, 11:46pm PDT |
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Here. It's pretty surreal now, between this and Forbes being a legitimate source for game news. Here's a few holes in the chunk of old swiss they're baiting the mousetraps with on this end of the spectrum.
In any male-dominated industry, you’re going to find people who speak about women in ways you'd rather they didn't. (That cuts both ways, of course: women when they get together aren't shrinking violets when it comes to discussing the size of their boyfriend's penis, and what he does with it.)
The locker-room counterpart to women talking about cocks, that's what the criticism boils down to. It's not about the plotless rape-simulation in Tomb Raider or every attempt to drive player investment with a dead girlfriend characterized as deeply as a blowup doll. The opposition never had a point.
Feminist campaigners such as Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian won't like this comparison, but what their mission represents is a new kind of sexually dysfunctional authority clamping down on the sexuality of the great unwashed, like politicians and some churches throughout history.
Satisfying to see in print, but I don't doubt they'll just fire back with comparisons to some great moral reformer and the entire history of the temperance movement if they think it'll help.
If there's one thing #GamerGate activism is proving, it's that there is no bigotry problem in the gaming industry: it's an illusion, cooked up by people with axes to grind.
The only group that genuinely isn't welcome is that small but noisy battalion of social justice warriors, who bring nothing but gloom and despair, and their loyal band of incompetent, unethical bloggers, who are so desperate to advertise their upstanding moral virtue to the sisterhood that they have forgotten to check their consciences. We should resist this new tyranny.
Note how the language shifts in this last paragraph. It's so starched it becomes wooden, and this is his conclusion. It's weak and unfeeling compared to all the talk of women sharing dick sizes. I'm not sure a guy who never got past IBC format is what this discussion needs, but since we got one now we can celebrate the fact that he failed to decry the whole thing as pointless.
Oh well, now there's money in Breitbart swinging the pendulum the other way. Or a feeding frenzy when the dyke mafia smell this guy's blood in the water. I'm exhausted, I dunno about you. This shit is just a way to mark time, It's start to crate with news cycles. |
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