I'm new to the ant-SJW community and I am confused by why many Soyboys are typically associated with the Nintendo Switch Ninendo doesn't appear to be pro-Social Justice and, unlike Sony, generally keeps out of politics. What are your thoughts on the console and why is it associated with SoyBoys?
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There is a difference between fantastical content that CS Lewis was referring to and the infantilizing pandering of Nintendo.
CS Lewis was speaking of literature like Grimms fairy tales, JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings ( though, maybe not specifically. I'm not sure the time table on the quote), or Charles Dickens works. Things that are not immediately beneficial to a man's pursuits but otherwise wholesome.
Ninetendo puts out mind-numbing, easy-to-digest distractions. They are full of colorful lights and pretty pictures and assurances that "You're great! You win!"
They are not even close to being comparable. Add on top of that, if you told CS Lewis you were spending a weeks wages on the same childish material you already owned because they made the colors brighter and the game play easier, I'm sure he would have a different quote for you.
You didn't understand the quote did you? Lewis didn't talk about specific content here, he talked about people. He talked about people like you that have a desire to proclaim how adult they are and how they, as very grown up persons wouldn't do childish things. It's like with the quote about the king
What I'm saying is that the quote doesn't apply universally to everything one could call childish.
If you said "I still shit my pants and that's ok, it's not childish" no one would back you up and say that's an acceptable behavior for adults to engage in.
(Actually, there is an entire community online that would, but that is beside the point)
Mankind was created to find certain things acceptable to children and off-putting in adults. I believe that this is one of them, even if the wider community does not. I would not seek to partner myself with a man who's life is characterized by an addiction to an un-challenging game system.
The quote applies to anyone that has to proclaim how not childish he is. Again, it doesn't matter what specific "childish" thing you are talking about, it only matters that you have a need to tell and show how grown up you are. If you were mature you would just ignore things that you are not interested in. But you can't, you have to tell us how not childish you are and how childish it would be to enjoy Nintendo-games and how you are not enjoying Nintendo-games because that would be childish, which you are so very not.
Also: Who made you the arbiter of what is acceptable?
I did.