Vault101 said:
excpet most pople aren't saying that and this continues misinterpretation is a real effing problem
Didnt "the most dangerous women in gaming" just claimed in her most recent video that things that happen in video games do infact have a real lasting effect on the person who is playing said games?
So if the video game is mysoginistic... you will become mysoginistic yourselfe.. the game influences you to be so.
If the game is violent... you will automatically become violent... the game influences you to be so.
Oh wait no.. the second one was proclaimed by a lawyer and not a "feminist" internet pop culture critic so it doesnt count.
And this is why i have a big problem with people like bob and jim supporting people like her so unquestionably.
On one hand they keep decrying people like jack thompson as morons that just want to make a quick buck and have no real base for their arguments...
While on the other they keep telling us what horrible people we are for not buying into the crap Sarkesian and the like want to push.
She sits infront of a camera and tells us why we are bad people for liking mario games because they "objectivy" princes peach. And if you claim that she didnt claimed that we are bad people for liking these games then why did her last video told us that mysoginistic games = mysoginistic people make?
However: She doesnt interview women that work in the industry and maybe had personal experiences of sexist encounters with co workers and managment. She doesnt interview companies and try to find out why thy have a problem with female main characters, why there isnt more diversity. My guess is the answer would be pretty boring: Sales numbers.
But remember... "most dangerous women in gaming" right mr Chipman?
Thought no one of "prominence" in game journalism ever speaks about this.. instead we get to listen to jim chastisizing us for being so toxic and hostile and that we as a "community" (remember gamers have developed a hivemind) need to stop doing these things. (remember that female bioware employee that left bioware and everyone claimed that it was because of deaththreads, only later to be found out that it had nothing to do with those deaththreads? Yeah we still got yelled at by jim for it in one of his videos even thought i doubt any of his regular audience belonged in the category of people that make such comments)
Only for in another video telling us to keep whining to big publishers cause whining (aka loud vocal backlash to their shenanigans) aparantly is the only thing that can make them change their ways.
What now? Less toxicity? More toxicity? Only against certain "sanctioned" targets?
Its this double morale, this hypocrisy that really grinds my gears, especialy since most often i do agree with these people on most problems the industry has and just dont understand when they turn around to point fingers at their own audience.
As for the SJWs themselves... what happens on tumblr shows up either on youtube/imgur/4chan and i say let it stay there. Nothing ever good comes from drama created by people hungry for attention.