chocolate pickles said:
Probably because they're fed up of every tumblr and Escapist user screaming 'Patriarchy!' at shit that's not actually offensive to women.
You know, I keep hearing about this mysterious tumblr Illuminati that apparently has conspiracy theory level power, how they poison ideologically pure places like The Escapist. I hear stuff like that and I can't help but think it's a nothing but a strawman. You see the thing is I see a few people immediately default to complaining about patriarchal society, that's the thing, it's a few people, a loud minority, that doesn't actually have any real impact on the entertainment industry.
The thing I seem to see a lot of is that the people who shout "Feminist Agenda!" are the same kind of minority, just on the other side of the supposed "issue".
This applies to not only some here on The Escapist and tumblr, but it also applies to lots of social media sites too, like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
Now I see a major difference between the two groups: The "feminist" side a is group doesn't really understand feminist philosophy, but still uses it to voice their dissatisfaction. The tend not to do any harm, when they do do harm they more often than not do it to themselves rather than any societal structure. Also large entertainment companies will scapegoat them for an internal decision not to release things in certain markets, like a video game company recently did... Justifying not releasing an installment in a sub-series in the west, because of feminist outrage, instead of the real issue which was consistently declining sales of the sub-series, which was making bringing the games over and getting them certified unprofitable.
The "anti-feminist" side is probably even worse for several reasons. One it's a group that is capable of shutting up those they disagree with, usually via methods of doxxing, harassment, combined with rape and death threats. It's also a group with a large sector that indulges in horrific amounts of shaming people for their body weight and sexual habits, the latter usually within acceptable norms anyways. All of this happens because some women and men identify as feminist and have issues with society, a small section of those who disagree with the feminists decide to engage in absolutely horrible and illegal tactics of threats and stalking.
To put it in TL
R summary: The feminists are trying to do their best to invoke positive change, some of them might be a bit misguided, but their hearts are generally in the right place. The "anti-feminists", specifically a loud hateful minority of "anti-feminists", feel threatened that people want social change and equality, so they engage in dirty underhanded and illegal tactics to shut their opposition up.[/quote]
Yeah you have no idea what you're talking about, at all.
I don't take much involvement in these matters and almost unequivically the ones who pull out the doxxing are "SJW" (I hate this term fyi)/feminist type, not the opposites.
See: Zamii070 and her attempted suicide for drawing """""fatphobic""""" fat