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I'm starting to think that game journalists still can't comprehend that the reasons gamergate happened are still there.
I mean, they've called us all racists over and over and over, doesn't that mean they're supposed to have won by now?
Great points. I got so sick of gaming reviews that weren’t about the game or was some lecture about how evil we were.
The game journalists either purposefully don't get it and are doing it for the money (literally: "I get to stay at home and write stuff and I get like a 50k a year salary? Oh wow, idc, I'll do it) or they're just activists.
Activists almost never change their mind. The government could barge into their house, put their boot on their head and they'd go "Oh, this is a mistake, I'm one of the good guys, I'm not even angry, probably just some mistake."
We don't change those people's minds about who's racist or not. We culturally bottle them up, the same way people in Europe spent decades with that black sheep uncle or grand father or aunt who was super-pro Nazi in WW2, or was one, or was just very anti-Semitic, etc. It's not something we talk about now, but it was a trope for decades because so many families had one. Same thing is likely to happen here, no one's going to want Uncle Bob at the wedding because he's probably going to start bitching about how jews became white folk or some crazy shit.
This is a deeply ironic comment lol
Tbh, gamergate has won somewhat. Nowadays on videos, the video people have to clearly state that something is a paid advertisement, rather than just "imho raid is a great game"
Anymore harassment than anyone else? I remember reading once than men get a ton of harassment online but the generally don’t react to it like women.
As I recall the statistics, men get more harassment overall but far less sexual harassment, so of course that's defined as the "bad" one (the ones that happen overwhelmingly to men are, presumably, character building), because we must protect the narrative!
Ironically, the harasser doesn't care what form his or her harassment takes. The goal is simply to inflict pain. If the target is non-white, the harassment will be "racist". If the target is female, the harassment will be "sexist".
If the target is a white male in 2021, the harassment will be institutional.
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification
An addendum to this comment is the possibility of biased reporting, though.
If you're in an online PvP game and someone says (giving a gamut of possibles here) "go fuck yourself", "I'll fuck yer mum", "we fuckin raped you last round!", or "Suck my dick, loser" (all things I've heard in a single session in Overwatch, mind you), the respondants may give different opinions.
Anita Sharkhands would say that ALL of those statements are literally raping her, forming the words into corporeal form and just ramming it in in the most literal way possible please gib money nao. Karen McKaren might understand that "Fuck you" is not actually meaning the word fuck in a sexual sense, but would say the other three might be sexual harassment. Joe Gamer would accept it as just a part of dealing with online games, but might note "suck my dick" as a sexual harassment. Timmy Tryhard would just reply in kind, because it is the language of these games sometimes.
The study doesn't fully account for this difference in lenses. They try, but seriously, do you remember the number of times someone has said "fuck you" to you online?
It is entirely possible men also receive the bulk of sexual harassment by sheer count of incidents, but they discount it as being such because "suck a dick" said in passing isn't sexual harassment to them, they've been desensitized to hate of and derogation of male sexuality.
That’s true. I just chalk it up to make trash talk
I'm not bitch-made, you're ass-mad, this is funny.
Less sexual harassment, but plenty of that too, surprisingly. Both men and women like to attack men over that, just to a lesser degree than men and women like to attack women over it.
But most of the anger/rage/hate stuff is directed by men at men, similarly to how men are more likely to be robbed, killed, etc. We spend more time online than woman on average too I believe.
Twitter is something like 70% female, when it was looked statistically Twitter is just the constant whining of women and the reactions of other women who then are retweeted en masse. Social media is actual cancer and you can easily identify those who are eaten up by it.
Where did you get that statistic? Tumblr was primarily female users, but Twitter, I haven't seen any stats on. Don't disagree that it's basically cancer though lol.
games journos deserved gg.
They deserved far worse, but GG was what they got.
The game journalist cries out in pain as xir slanders you.
I wonder how much of this is paid to make specific things look good by being betrayed by the wrong people.
Tweet was deleted; what did it say?
I don't remember, sorry.
But hey, at least your tweet was a reminder that I need to screenshot this stuff, which I usually do. Been slacking, my bad.