Of course, they are. Gamers, in their natural habitat, never discuss ‘gender issues’ concerning games. What is going on is that young men have dropped out of watching television and spend most of their time with video games. If someone’s focus was to reframe media for one’s ideology, then the next target would be video games for men have abandoned television.
About half a decade ago, I commented on a 1up piece that talked about the ‘great women in part of the game industry’. I thought the women they chose were mediocrities who did things in marketing and such. If they wanted to highlight women in the game industry, they should have picked the designer of King’s Quest or the programmer of Archon (who was a woman, a rarity in 1983). The result was that feminists began to bombard my site. Note that I didn’t disagree with the highlighting of women in the industry, it is just that there are many unsung heroines in the industry’s early day instead of giving a pedestal to mediocrities that exist today. The reason why comments aren’t allowed on this site is because feminists and all like to bombard sites. It is also a tactic to put up material WordPress doesn’t like so they can delete the site. If people don’t share someone’s opinion on the Internet, they can go somewhere else. These feminist creatures don’t like tolerance. They want obedience.
Here are some comments I am plucking from the Reddit thread I linked to:
Here’s a gem from a commentator “Privileged people don’t perceive their own privilege and wonder why everyone else is making a big deal out of these issues. When you’re a able bodied white cis gender hetero dude you have the luxury of not thinking much about race, gender, sexism, etc.” Here’s another “Perhaps some people prefer to enjoy their games for what they are instead of moaning about what they’re not.” BANNED. “This. It kills me when people attempt to push their cause on someone’s artistic vision. It’s like they want every game to be serious and consider every cause out there when we just want to play the experiences that the developer gives us. If they don’t like it they should vote with their wallet. Don’t try and water down our games, movies, comics etc.” BANNED.
Neogaf is targeted frequently by viral marketers because that is where many game developers and game journalists hang out at. Happily, game designers are intelligent people, and they can see the BS. The smart thing to do in gaming today is to be anti-gaming message forum. It is one thing we waste time playing silly video games. But now we waste time on forums talking about silly video games. Giving up message forums is the best thing one can do for one’s gaming life.
Because they’re afraid of the reaction of the “gaming community” which is not representative of the community at all, the actual community has been censored a million different ways after the feminists arrived and is afraid to speak up because of a small minority that will be “offended” if you dare to call them out.
This is why I am also anti-community when it comes to gaming. What does ‘community’ even mean? Usually, ‘community’ just means ‘gaming message forums’ often on the company’s website. In the 1990s, there were ‘fan pages’ that fans of the game flocked to for updates and information. Corporations do not like gamers talking freely among one another. Why, they could re-frame the game in any way they wanted! The horrors! There is much control over the ‘community’ these days by marketers especially concerning the pre-release hype.
Do you know about the Penny Arcade “scandal”? PA created a comic where the mentioned about a character (male too!) getting “raped by dickwolves” which was an obvious joke. These lunatics then manufactured a controversy about PA supposedly supporting “rape culture” and since then they’ve forced PA to apologize repeatedly and they even organized a pathetic boycott of PAX.
What’s even funnier is that in the comic, it was a guy who was raped by the wolves. Feminists have no sense of humor.
Here is an interesting quote from a game designer:
If it wasn’t for the increasing presence of a few very vocal feminists and their allies in the gaming community, I probably wouldn’t be aware that there was a Men’s Rights Movement. I’m sure there’s plenty of gamers out there that have been reading up on both sides of the ‘gender in gaming’ issue.
As a gamer and developer, I’m seeing an increasing divide between the ‘core gaming’ community, where a vocal minority generally responds with anger and hate (‘you won’t take away our pixellated boobs and guns!’), and the majority just don’t care too much – and then the indie community, which seems to increasingly be going full-SJW – all too quick to call out poor choices of words – that may not have even happened – causing social media shitstorms over fairly minor incidents.
I see worrying parallels to Atheism+ within the gaming community at the moment. And that seems likely to just going to make things get uglier and angrier.
The hateful tweets really need to end, though. And that’s not about censorship, it’s about not being an immature childish trolling piece of shit. I know it’s just a tiny minority of the gaming community – but it’s making the whole gaming community look very bad, and reflecting badly on the games industry itself. (and that’s not just hateful tweets at radfems, male game developers can get a lot of it too, for trivial things like changing stats on in-game items)
And it’s basically handing powerful ammunition to people who have figured out that hate and abuse can be very effectively turned into publicity and attention for a (sometimes questionable) cause.
Some of this I wonder is because of the culture rot. In the past, games were admired because of their references to mythology. Today, these same games are condemned. Just look at what Salon says about how evil Ocarina of Time is.
They’re trying to control the content of those games too, to be more specific, they’re especially trying to control content on these games. One of the “scandals” they’ve manufactured lately is that Call of Duty doesn’t have enough female characters.
It is funny when these feminists look back at the classic games. Pac-Man is apparently a ‘male domination’ fantasy because Pac-Man meets and marries Ms. Pac-Man and create Pac-Man Jr. Mario saves Paulette in Donkey Kong which means Nintendo hates women. My favorite is the feminist interpretation of Frogger as a ‘rape game’ because the goal of Frogger is to hop on the female froggies on the other side of the highway.
GAF has been terrible and overmoderated for as long as I’ve been reading it. Remember when Dragona was a mod and she used to flip out and ban people for even making a joke about women? That actually pales in comparison to today, though, where SJWs pretty much rule the roost it seems. For a while people weren’t even allowed to use the word “cunt”.
But, it’s almost fun to watch for drama’s sake and to observe the absurd amount of unwritten “rules” there; in other words, which topics particular moderators have a bug up their ass about.
I had to look up SJW. It means ‘Social Justice Warrior’. Video games are innocent fun. It is disturbing that you’re talking about Mega Man and someone tries to crap everything by saying ,”Where is Mega Woman? Is this only saying men can be mega?”
I own a website where I’ve gone off on the feminists in the gaming community. What has happened, from my experience, is that latest wave of 20-somethings have an enormous fear of being considered offensive to anyone so when people have become offended on maters for WHATEVER reason, this new wave of professionals are bending backwards to accommodate everyone so that THEY won’t be considered offensive.
Because this is the new generation of professionals, they’ve begun taking over the journalism side of gaming. They report on what people are offended with, they create the fake outrage, and then post it. Then when they receive a barrage of comments on how people should lighten up and not take things so seriously, these journalists will take to the various social media and comment on how abhorrent people are not offended as they are or at least try to to be. Immediately that creates the guilt to the readers who again, bend over backwards to not be offensive.
I’ve called out feminist and journalist multiples times on the matter:
http://www.original-gamer.com/article/4351-When-games-journalism-turns-into-propaganda
On my podcast I’ve also mentioned multiple times the huge feminist assholes out there –http://www.original-gamer.com/podcast
Unfortunately, in regards to gaming, the feminists games journalists are pretty much in control of the biggest sites. Because of that, they will have no problem making accusations on people based on half-truths and give the spotlight to people like Sarkeesian without a hint of objectivity. It’s a sad state of affairs on the journalism side of things and I’m in the minority of being fair on matters unlike a site like Kotaku which is clearly giving a slant to their stories to push an agenda rather than be objective on matters.
The ‘new wave of 20 somethings’ is another way of saying Culture Rot. These kids just aren’t that intelligent. You can expose this by placing the classic games through their ‘isms’, and we discover how absurd they sound. “Why is Mario always rescuing the princess? Is this some sort of hate message?” Mario also jumps on turtles so I suppose Mario abuses the cute animals too!
Jesus tapdancing Christ. This is why I just play games, and stay away from gaming forums. You’ve got retards trying to make their higher education in sociology worth something, so they have to piss and moan about “underrepresentation” and “white supremacy”, but at the same time are unwilling to actually do anything about it except tell other people that they’re ignorant for not thinking the SJW way.
They won’t go into game development, they won’t start their own companies to see if their ideas will actually pan out, no, it’s up to someone else to take the risks and spend the money developing a game that will undoubtedly be so bland as to make Ghandi rise from the dead and start smacking some bitches.
You can’t make those people happy. There’s no point in trying, especially if you’re a white dude. Fuck ’em all.
And that comment sums it all up. Worthless degrees create worthless people. The reason why they are so hostile is because they are filled with self-loathing. I don’t see engineers with real jobs act up this way. It is always those with the worthless arts degree or ‘woman’s studies’ degree.
Money does make the world go round. When you don’t have money, or you lack the skills to obtain it, you can easily become a nutjob. This isn’t to say rich people aren’t nutjobs because there are plenty of them.
We have too many ‘great intellectuals’ walking around on the Internet today. Everyone thinks they are a brilliant commentator. But what actually matters is if you have the technical skills to DO things. Can you actually program a video game? I guarantee all the whiners cannot. If you don’t like a game, you can simply make your own. That is how Sid Meir got started.
If the feminists do not like certain games, they are free to program their own. “But math is hard!” And that says everything.
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