https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5GTYzySEs
This one is remarkable, I've watched Callum Upton for quite awhile and always enjoyed his takedowns of studios and all the dumb shit they get up to in order to pull the wool over consumers eyes. Here though despite clearly being quite a part of the gaming community and generally being knowledgeable he comes across as completely ignorant. I went away after getting annoyed at his video and came back to do a more measured response
The video he does is incredibly dismissive and misses the point entirely that people have about gender pronouns and how yes it is a problem if you pander to such a small percentage of people ( At least he admits what he is doing along with other devs ) and he must know he's talking crap because he then like every other ignorant person on this topic decides to resort to gaslighting the audience for the rest of the video going on about how it's no big deal.
Which let's be real, is not an actual argument against gender pronouns, I think that's my biggest problem with this however the NPCs seem to have gotten their firmware updates and this is being repeated across the internet. His comments page as well seems to almost suspiciously be filled with this sort of response of people going "Not big deal" "Why people mad?" and they fucking know exactly what they're doing.
Looks like the devs who do this are just asking for a second GamerGate, except this time it's going to happen in the dev space, not the gamer space. They realised they couldn't really get anywhere with gamers which is why they spam propaganda so often calling us all bigots, so they've been going after clueless and lazy devs who get their ignorance reinforced by these SJWs spamming their comments pages with positive feedback and dismissing anyone who complains.
What is interesting to me is witnessing this shit happen to somebody I've followed in real time. This is how it's done, it seems to be less malicious for a lot of them and more that they simply don't know any better. They get surrounded in a protective bubble by leftists they pander to and they have no idea how bad these people are until the mob finally turns on them after they've gained enough power.
I'm going to state being a wannabe indie dev myself, I'm a dev and I am 100% behind your rights as consumers to boycott this shit if you don't want anything to do with it and yes I know the actual reasons why gender pronouns are bad.
Also, gender is binary, there are only two of them, this is non-negotiable. I can't believe I'm taking a fucking TERF position but here we are lol. Really disappointed with Callum actually as I've pointed people to his videos in the past and he's clearly done zero research on this topic if his reactions are genuine.
It's kind of a losing battle at this point, but even using "gender" is a bit of a concession. There aren't two genders (when talking about people), there are zero. There are two sexes. Again, though, losing battle, moot point, all that. Your point stands, and I agree.
Alright, this correction is tad more serious. Don't concede that ground to them. That's not a TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) argument. Well, okay, it's one they would agree with, but it's not exclusively their argument. It's the argument of anyone who can see reality on this topic. Saying that biology is real is not a "TERF argument" and, if it is, we're all fucking doomed so who gives a fuck?
Again, just because TERFs might agree with you accurately describing reality does not mean your argument is "TERF."
Sorry to be pedantic, but I do think especially the second point is quite important.
TERF is just a term feminists came up with to shame other feminists. Nobody should care about that term
LOL yeah I do agree and get your point, sometimes you get involved in the debate for so long you forget which really is part of their tactic. Force you to play along with their stupid language in order to even make a counter-argument. However this goes back to my idea of a second gamer revolution and just sticking it to these fucking people the best way gamers know how, culture and economic warfare.
A lot of languages never had the words sex and gender. There was only ever the equivalent to the word sex so they made up a new word that basically translates to "sex identity". So they are still enforcing the binary truth but don't really get it.