The Felicia Day/Destructoid situation

[TheSteeleStrap]

I have no idea who she is, so I don't know what she's contributed. I don't think he should lose his job over something he did privately.

 

[The Rainmaker]

I can't stand Felicia Day's acting and I've always pictured her to have an annoying and arrogant personality, mostly because of how she seems to really want to and enjoy coming off as "hot". The only reason this comment is such a big deal is because he is supposed to be a professional, but I mean come on, he wouldn't have posted this if he didn't only have like 50 followers. Besides, I could see myself tweeting about why she is so popular as well, as I simply don't like her. People have to stop getting so mad at the opinions of random people.

 

[GloatingSwine]

I have no idea who she is, so I don't know what she's contributed. I don't think he should lose his job over something he did privately.

It's hardly "private" if you tell the entire internet about it via twitter.

It's not like he's writing this in his special secret diary that he keeps locked in a desk drawer with "gurls keep out" written on the cover.

He's writing it on Twitter, where everyone on the internet can see it.

 

[Vivi22]

I don't think he should lose his job over something he did privately.

He didn't do it privately. Twitter feeds are not private, they are public. And when people called him out on it, he freaked out and attacked them.

I'm not sure why people even make this mistake. Obviously anything you say on any social media is public and there's the potential for people to see it that you might not want to, including your employer. So if you're going to act like a dick in public you're going to be treated like one.

And I actually do agree with firing him considering he was working for a major gaming related website. Like it or not, how you behave publicly is a reflection on your employer, especially when it's known who you work for. If I owned a company and one of my employees said the crap he did I'd want to can him to on simple principle, not to mention the entire anyone with a brain could figure out who he worked for. Taking no stand on this at all is simply admitting you don't have a problem with it. Bad business with such a big backlash.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

He did something that wasn't very smart and reflected poorly on the company he was associated with, so they distanced themselves from him to avoid a hassle. It happens all the time, much less publicly, in situations large and small. This is normal people. The only reason we're in a lather about it is other events that happened to have occurred recently that tangentially relate to the circumstances of this particular instance.

 

[LadyTL]

Honestly I somewhat agree with him in that I feel that she is over-saturated in gaming and nerd culture. She chose not once but several times to flaunt around in boob enhancing armor (her character from the game on the guild, the music video she did, her incredibly out of place choice of armor for the Dragon age stuff). If she was that great of an actress by herself they would not have referenced her part in Fallout as being voiced by "Felicia Day from the Guild" they would have just said by Felicia Day. She only got those parts by The Guild being popular at that time on Xbox and now she is being used and treated the same way as Olivia Munn.

 

[Knight Templar]

I don't think he should lose his job over something he did privately.

He didn't do it privately. Twitter feeds are not private, they are public. And when people called him out on it, he freaked out and attacked them.

I'm not sure why people even make this mistake.

Neither was I, so I asked him. Apparently he was totally ignorant of how twitter works.

her incredibly out of place choice of armor for the Dragon age stuff)

That armour was more modest than most of the armour in the games, but not out of place.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I think the blog Escher girls best described what was wrong with the guys statement .

Why I wanted to point this out is that, again, this is an example of reducing female geeks to ?they?re just women? because he even ADMITS he had no real idea who she is. So, then what?s his complaint? She?s a woman. She?s a geek. She?s well-known. Therefore it MUST be because of her looks, therefore it MUST be because she?s a woman, and not be because she?s witty, or clever, or anything. She?s just like a ?booth babe? because well? she?s a woman, what else could she offer?

And that?s the underlying message of both of the above, and a LOT of the harassment and misogyny that is directed at women gamers, women comic book fans, at women in geek spaces:

You?re just a woman. Your worth is your body. We don?t care who you are, what you think, what your issues are, how good you are at what you do, or anything else.

In another thread on this forum a guy is like 'I hate this girl for showing off her rig on youtube. She is just doing it for attention' and then points out that the reason it annoys him is because she is attractive...

Like it is her fault she is pretty or something. Would you make a youtube video and put yourself out there in public without looking your best?

 

[Vault101]

In another thread on this forum a guy is like 'I hate this girl for showing off her rig on youtube. She is just doing it for attention' and then points out that the reason it annoys him is because she is attractive...

Like it is her fault she is pretty or something. Would you make a youtube video and put yourself out there in public without looking your best?

and if she wasnt attractive those youtube commetnts would have been

"get a Wii fit fat ugly *****"

you can't win eather way

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

My immature sense of humor aside, you get the feeling that these guys, uh... don't really date much?

I do get the feeling that there is some level of resentment yeah.

Lol at your idea I think that would be hilarious.

 

[Cheesepower5]

In another thread on this forum a guy is like 'I hate this girl for showing off her rig on youtube. She is just doing it for attention' and then points out that the reason it annoys him is because she is attractive...

Like it is her fault she is pretty or something. Would you make a youtube video and put yourself out there in public without looking your best?

It should tell you how juvenile I can get that the thought crossed my mind to hit the gym harder just so I could parody these clueless little boys by showing off my rig while shirtless and making cheesy poses and close-ups of my ass.

My immature sense of humor aside, you get the feeling that these guys, uh... don't really date much?

This post confuses me about your gender. What is a rig, exactly? Breasts? Abs? PC? How does this parody clueless little boys, exactly? That's an odd term to throw at douchebag teenagers shouting slander into the shit-filled void of YouTube's comment section.

Yeah, I know a lot of people who do that sort of shit. They're not these degenerate, constant virgin troglodytes you're all picturing. They're the douchebag kids who act all tough and wigger, the quiet kid muttering curses under their breaths and normal people who think they're funny. And a lot more, probably, but that's where I've sampled from and the types that seem to appear on YouTube.

 

[BleedingPride]

she tries to contribute, therefore she is part of the community and should be respected as such.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

[This post confuses me about your gender. What is a rig, exactly?

A rig is what you game on usually used in reference to a PC setup that you have built yourself.

Pretty good name for boobs too I guess lol.

 

[clangunn]

[This post confuses me about your gender. What is a rig, exactly?

A rig is what you game on usually used in reference to a PC setup that you have built yourself.

Pretty good name for boobs too I guess lol.

I thought it was a lovely double entendre! Claim credit for it

 

[Cheesepower5]

This post confuses me about your gender. What is a rig, exactly? Breasts? Abs? PC? How does this parody clueless little boys, exactly? That's an odd term to throw at douchebag teenagers shouting slander into the shit-filled void of YouTube's comment section.

I'm a guy. The thought just popped into my head that if a person wanted to whore for attention while claiming to be a gamer in order to make it look like they weren't whoring for attention, wouldn't they go to greater lengths than just showering before turning on the camera and showing off their PC/custom Xbox case/whatever? Whole point being, "This is what an attention whore would look like, boys."

Bad joke? Yeah. But my usual approach to comedy is to say really filthy and sarcastic things until someone laughs, so I'm a bit out of my element.

I'm probably at fault here, I was looking for a crude reference where you just meant a computer.

Filth and sarcasm don't translate well over the internet, which is sad, because they're a big part of my life.

 

[TheMagicLemur]

It's not what you say, is how you said it.

Did he had any validity to his questions? Perhaps. Was he professional about posing these questions? Absolu-fucking-lutely not.

He deserverd to get canned for it, because in lieu of being "the voice of gamers" he was a douche. You can make the same questioning and rise the same topic with much better arguments and without being a dick.

A-fucking-men.

Context is extremely important, and this guy was being a smug jackass.

For my part, I hardly think she's a glorified Booth Babe. That shitty "journalist" who's puffy face they hamfistedly put into ME3, now THERE's a glorified booth babe...