Mutant1988 said:
And equality is changing nothing at all?
If things are equal, then yes, it means changing nothing at all. If things are unequal, then things need to be achieved but not through inequality. The playing field must be made fair rather than being stilted to the other side just because.
There is a problem getting women into the video game industry (And other industries), because of poor attitudes that think that any attempt to help them get into the business without being marginalized, ignored or abused is somehow going to make themselves lose something.
There's a difference between giving someone fair access to the industry and giving them elevated access.
Look, there are a lot of very talented women already in gaming and already writing. Women clearly have access to the industry. But just because it isn't 50/50 male/women doesn't make it unequal or unfair. There are a ton of industries where there is a gender disparity because, guess what, men and women are different. The important thing is to make sure that the disparity isn't there due to unfair hiring practices or some kind of obstacles that are put in one group's way. It isn't important to try to force it to be equal when there aren't necessarily an equal number of women who want to do the same job.
Tell me, do you respond to all issues by replying "But what about me?". Because you sure as hell do when it's about making things better for women.
There you go again. Trying to shut someone down for merely discussing the existence of being marginalized. This should not make you feel proud. Equality is everyone's cause and you're doing no one justice by advocating against fairness in the name of fairness. That's just textbook irony on your part. You need to instead rally against people who are actually out to maintain true inequality.
I'm also curious to know if you think companies are run by imbeciles? Because they would have to be if they pass over a more competent employee because he has a dick. Women? They get passed over regardless. Or they get harassed for being chosen over someone else regardless, because they have the audacity not to have a dick. It's always politics when it's women.
If a female is truly the best candidate for a job and is passed over then that is a significant loss for a company. Especially at the higher echelons.
But I'm not sure what your point is. I believe that if anyone is passed over for their job due to their gender or any attribute we deem as protected that it was unethical for the hiring agent to do so. Shouldn't that be what you're aiming for? That the most qualified candidate always gets chosen regardless of whether or not they have a dick? That's fair, that's equal opportunity. That the best of the best is hired. Not that someone demands certain numbers be met which leads to all those attributes being considered all over again. So why must I be positioned against you for wanting things to remain equal? Why should someone complaining about inequality be diminished by you? The pendulum often swings too far in the other direction before eventually resting in the middle. You should stop pushing it so hard the other way and instead be a force of gravity for the center. For equality and not for inequality because you think some group deserves it for something they may personally have never done.
So I repeat, inequality cannot be stamped out with more inequality. This should not be a controversial notion that each person deserves a fair shot because it's not their fault what they're born as. Yet people demand ratios have to be this or that and so people's natural qualities come into play far more than they should.
So you know, maybe efforts to normalize the ratio could have a good effect in the long run? Just a thought.
What is normalization though? Shouldn't it just be that the number of hires are proportionate to the number of people applying for the job? For example, if a company gets 80% male applicants and 20% female applicants then shouldn't that ratio be the general goal rather than a contrived 50/50 that would actually be a heavily sexist ratio? The problem with most of the people advocating for normalization is that they don't understand what normal is. They assume that the labor pool for every job is 50/50 and that women are just getting turned away. In some cases that is true but in many cases there is a huge difference in the labor pool.
So do you want equality or do you want contrived equality where you force everything into some box that you imagine to be ideal?
Who do you think created and enforce gender roles anyway? Women? When men almost exclusively has been in positions of power throughout nearly all of history? Did they use magic?
Society has established most gender roles. It is reinforced by both men and women. Biology has also played a role in it. Men aren't deemed as the physically stronger gender because men won the battle of Carthage and declared society would always view them as such. They are deemed as such because they have a natural advantage in that area thanks to large amounts of a natural steroid. But women have played just as great of a role in gendered stereotyping, being just as guilty of condemning women who danced to the beat of a different drum.
You are sadly mistaken, and sexist, if you want to shift all of humanity's blame onto one sex. Sorry, this nonsense was a group effort.
Regardless, I'm not sure why you feel like the sins of our ancestors have anything to do with us. Maybe someone had a great grand father that fucked a goat. I'm not going to hold that against them (the great grand child) or prevent them from watching over my goats if I had any. That crime what the great grandfather's and his alone (of course, hypothetical). I certainly wouldn't try to marginalize the individual or take away their rights to give someone else and advantage for something their great grandfather did either.
It's about insulting Japanese boys.
I'm pretty sure it's someone asking why a type of show named "boy" is mostly about boys (if the person above was correct, which google translate seems to confirm). So it seems like kind of a no-brainer conversation.
