This. So much this that it hurts.cynicalsaint1 said:/facepalm
Is this really the culture that I'm supposedly a part of?
You know I really want to be proud of being a geek or whatever.
But more and more, I'm only made able to feel more ashamed of it.
FogHornG36 said:she has a right to say what ever she wants, and make videos about what ever she wants, Totally free speech, but, this goes both ways, people have a right to say what ever they want about her, even if it is not vary nice.
When you put your face, your name, your ideals on the internet you are stepping into harms way, you can't expect people to just play nice, and treat you nice no mater what you say or do. Then again people being an ass to her got her 160,000 dollars, but what she does with that money will show everyone her true colors.
Instig8iveJournalism?80Maxwell08 said:snip
Yes. Exactly that.Mylinkay Asdara said:This. So much this that it hurts.cynicalsaint1 said:/facepalm
Is this really the culture that I'm supposedly a part of?
You know I really want to be proud of being a geek or whatever.
But more and more, I'm only made able to feel more ashamed of it.
Whatever the issue is anymore - and honestly, it could be this or it could be one of dozens of other issues flying around right now - I am having a harder and harder time being openly proud of being a gamer (female or otherwise) because of the behavior of a small but extremely vocal minority of people who I really must say don't deserve to call themselves a part of us. That's how I feel anyway. You don't deserve to call yourself part of the culture I am proud of if you act like a complete and total waste of oxygen and delight in causing strife and exist only to make yourselves the worst example. This isn't what I, or indeed I think we, want to be about.
Duh, because she OBVIOUSLY engineered the sexist and misogynist feedback so as to increase support and get free money that people are totally not able to donate by way of their own free will, allowing her to go on holiday to Mexico (no doubt she'll go topless on the beaches just to slap anyone who looks!) without having to lift a fucking finger.Irridium said:Said it better than I could.John Funk said:Of course, the great irony here is that the vicious response is not only giving Sarkeesian's cause way more publicity than it would have otherwise gotten, but does more to illustrate the problem of misogyny in nerd/gamer culture way more than a video series ever could.
Because seriously, making a videogame about beating a woman in the face for daring to express the point of view that a male-dominated industry doesn't always treat women and female characters like it should, is kind of just making her point for her.
Seriously, why the hell are people so pissed about her making a video series showing that women aren't portrayed in the best light in games?
People!? This is newgrouds. 90% of "people" on Newgrounds barely know how to wipe their own arses, nevermind think logically. I do browse Newgrounds, granted, but I still know it's a galactic sized shithole most of the time.Fappy said:In before "I don't want to be on this planet anymore" meme.
Seriously though. What the fuck people?
To be fair, making videos about general tropes in pop culture is not exactly equal to an interactive game depicting and encouraging violence against a specific human being.FogHornG36 said:she has a right to say what ever she wants, and make videos about what ever she wants, Totally free speech, but, this goes both ways, people have a right to say what ever they want about her, even if it is not vary nice.
When you put your face, your name, your ideals on the internet you are stepping into harms way, you can't expect people to just play nice, and treat you nice no mater what you say or do. Then again people being an ass to her got her 160,000 dollars, but what she does with that money will show everyone her true colors.
I'm not wondering what the people disagreeing with her smartly problem is, I'm asking the people who are throwing around sexist and Anti-Semitic slurs and who hate her enough to make this game why they're so pissed.80Maxwell08 said:Because that's not why they are pissed. If you think I'm for this I'm not and truth be told I don't care for this whole thing one way or another but people do have very valid reasons to be pissed at her. Granted one of the videos I would link isn't really about her but some of the documentaries on kickstarter in general. So I'll just link the one only about her.Irridium said:Said it better than I could.John Funk said:Of course, the great irony here is that the vicious response is not only giving Sarkeesian's cause way more publicity than it would have otherwise gotten, but does more to illustrate the problem of misogyny in nerd/gamer culture way more than a video series ever could.
Because seriously, making a videogame about beating a woman in the face for daring to express the point of view that a male-dominated industry doesn't always treat women and female characters like it should, is kind of just making her point for her.
Seriously, why the hell are people so pissed about her making a video series showing that women aren't portrayed in the best light in games?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gLmcS3-NI&feature=plcp
This pretty much sums a lot of it up and that's just the first part. There's also another topic in the forums here about this linking to Destructiods' article on her where the author of the article points out her ignorance on what she's talking about. The Internet's problem with her isn't she's saying women aren't represented well it's they aren't represented well to her. In the video I linked it shows where she says self confidence and self control are masculine traits so women shouldn't have confidence in themselves in the media. Also it talks about a video she took down with no reasons given which she likes Japan's decision to have women only cars for trains.
If you don't get the problem yet the point of the feminist movement was for equality for women and men not for women to be treated like special snowflakes. By it's definition she isn't a feminist regardless if she calls herself that. She doesn't care for equality she wants women to act how she thinks they should act.
This is true. Its like 4 talented content creators and thousands of 13-year old Sonichu lovers.Conn1496 said:People!? This is newgrouds. 90% of "people" on Newgrounds barely know how to wipe their own arses, nevermind think logically. I do browse Newgrounds, granted, but I still know it's a galactic sized shithole most of the time.Fappy said:In before "I don't want to be on this planet anymore" meme.
Seriously though. What the fuck people?