It's all about who is the most oppressed. A white male cannot suggest sexism or oppression at the hands of a female because women have been more oppressed than men so we don't get to speak to women about being oppressive or men being victims. At least that's how it seems to work in the mind of these people.
Some interesting stuff going on lately between white feminists and black men because activists on both sides feel they are the "most" oppressed by th...
Add offensive to homosexuals... queer indeed... smh
The culture war goes far deeper than just games and women for that matter it's a giant cluster fudge.
Black people feel marginalized by white people,
Women feel marginalized by men,
Homosexuals people feel marginalized by straight people,
Transexuals feel marginalized by a lot of groups,
People with disabilities feel marginalized by the able,
The list goes on but what is happening is that...
Not so much the internet but the media as a business of click revenue. Controversy is profitable and maintained controversy more so.
It's not progressive it's regressive.
Complaining about attractive characters in a work of fantasy! Should complaints like these effect change it will be limiting on what game makers can do.
I understand the article doesn't recognize that attractive male protagonists are sexualized as female ones are but I disagree. More skin does not necessarily make a character more sexualized.
If men find a female who Is scantily clad appeali...
The alternative seems to be pick a random group that you have no real proof are affiliated with these threats and villainize them.
I dunno both seem pretty crappy options.
@mithen
Apples and oranges?
One group of people having rights and social standing another one does not is prejudiced. Period.
The words male and female should be interchangeable without changing the responses of the people in the conversation.
If you would be offended by someone marginalizing women then why not men?
Bunch of sexist crap and I'm sick to death of it.
Apples and oranges my...
Victimhood is a female privilege, men don't get to feel oppressed, especially not white men.
It's ok for the media to demonize men, imagine if they called a group of women hatemongers...
I agree with your analysis of the situation the problem with that being in terms of audience. For sure gaming is huge but main stream media has a much bigger audience, sure not all of the readers care enough to get involved but the more hateful gamers are made out to be the more opposition we will face. It's a sorry state of affairs.
Discrimination at its finest, I hate that being a male gamer automatically labels me as a hateful sexist in the eyes of many, many people. ...
That is encouraging to read, unfortunately whenever I Google #gamergate it's always negative on the pro side. It feels very much like public opinion isn't on the side of gamergate.
People like to be heroes and will rush to defend those they see as victims.
Ironic really since the narrative of those victims is that women shouldn't be portrayed as defenseless in media yet cloak themselves in those willing to defend them.... but that isn't a part...
There is no way to differentiate between the gaming community, trolls looking for attention, trolls looking for lulz and people setting themselves up as victims to paint the other side negatively.
You can not say the gaming community is ugly as that communities opinion cannot accurately be described through all the fog and bullcrap.
#gamergate is a lost cause, there were some sneaky tactics used to poison public opinion on both sides, no one on either side w...
@ naga
Don't you see that the research that went into finding out if video game violence makes people more violent applies to other behaviors also?
Research shows that as you say a game can affect someone emotionally but those effects are short term video games cannot make you more violent, angry, sexual, hateful, kind, misogynistic or any other descriptor people may want to throw around.
That means there is no genuine argument against su...
https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker...
I know tv and video games are not the same bit as entertainment media I think they are comparable.
No effect at all.
Oh goodness no, I still get a track or two in my head from Ni no kuni every now and then.
Bubsy 3D.... freaky game.
And the mainstream media will still label gamergate as mysaginy. Sad that no one really does any investigation anymore.
I know what you meant, as a measurement. "From here to there" meaning a measurement of space, "from Monday to Thursday" as a measurement of time.
It applies the same way whatever the context.
Yes it is, if you ever watched the mortal combat movie kano uses it talking to Sonya blade about giving her partner a smile with his knife "from ear to ear"
Maybe they get half descent discounts.
Any criticism no matter how valid, well spoken and well its intended will get you labeled with the scarlet M. Be careful.