The_Kodu said:
Okay first off, as someone who's been on Tumblr for well over three years and been in plenty of what you might call "SJW" circles, I can promise you that posts like that do
not go unchallenged and are
not all that common.
Infact the only time I've actually seen posts that say anything like that are in compilation meta posts about the "epidemic of SJWs on Tumblr" and half of them are usually proven to be trolls, jokes, or heavily contextual.
And even if they weren't, chances are they're just someone venting frustrations on their personal blog, directed at nobody and effecting you in precisely zero ways.
Also, "facilitate their Agenda?" The hell do you think her "agenda" is? Attention? Why would anyone
want the kind of bile she's had thrown at her? Money? If she wanted to take the money and run she could have but she didn't. This is a big part of why I hate conspiracy theorists, they always think there's a man behind the curtain, an illuminati pulling the strings, and they do these mental gymnastics to make
everything about some kind of damned biased agenda.
The way I see it, her videos seem to be a simple feminism 101 course in the context of some tropes commonly found in video games; which, lets be real here, have no shortage of fruit ripe for the plucking.
Have I agreed with everything she's ever said? Hell no, but I can respect what she's trying to do and holy hell did she not deserve all the threats and harassment she's gotten, there's nothing she could have said that would have made that okay.
Nothing
And yeah, assholes on the internet are always going to be assholes on the internet, but I think It's the principle of the thing for me. It seems like the "gaming community" is really quick to toss the dreaded "SJW" label at anything that shows the slightest hint of wanting to make this medium more inclusionary as a catch-all way of othering them, people are calling Tim Scafer an "SJW" because he had the
audacity to share a video. Imagine what would happen if Valve was suddenly branded an "SJW" company for something like this, the hell are they gonna do? Uninstall Steam and lose their 500 game back catalogs? They're trapped! They'd have to change tactics at very least, maybe someone'll think "gee, even Valve is onboard with this, maybe the gaming community is seriously messed up after all," it has the potential to be a pivotal point in the evolution of the gaming community in the best case scenario, and even in a worst case scenario it still raises awareness so that's a plus.
Oh and, this isn't about someone being mean on the internet, it's about a mindset born on the internet spilling into the real world, resulting in no less then two women being forced into hiding following personal death/rape threats, I don't think I really need to explain the difference in situational gravity here.