Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

it's a lot of territorial pissing from basement dwellers

that's what it looks like at a glance but i didn't want to dismiss it out of hand

ya might as well, it's the same tripe repeated over and over again

Actually today was interesting, which means I have been spending too much time paying attention to this. But GamerGate appears to have been.. chased off.. 4chan?

oughtn't click to 4chan at work

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/death-to-the-gamer/

this been posted yet?

yes and then we killed the gamer

death to jennifer garner

Does @Nero get paid for this? Is this someone's actual job?

jacobin piece undercooked

it's just lag00n's in thread strong take (gaming = consumerism) + unpacked into verbosity

took a quick look at the tag on twitter, came away with this gem

https://twitter.com/Bendilin/status/512708381186854912

it's just lag00n's in thread strong take (gaming = consumerism) + unpacked into verbosity

― Mordy, Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i thought it was pretty good

idk i expect more from jacobin i guess

but tbf consumerism is pretty much ubiquitous on our culture so maybe its unfair to pick on teh poor gamers, in the preceding piece he does spell out how everyone is a geek now https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/08/on-geek-culture

this is good:

There are a few small issues with this analysis. One is the notion that the slights imagined by gamers are just that: imaginary. But they aren’t, and gamers must be taken at face value when they claim to feel threatened. Gamer culture is under threat, though the notion that it’s dead or dying is both overstated and premature.

When your identity has been manufactured by corporations urging you to consume certain things in prescribed ways, then any change, no matter how small, is an existential threat. When women challenge decades of almost exclusively male fantasies of sex and power, this alters the content the gamer consumes. And when that content is altered, gamer identity itself under threat. The vitriol isn’t contrived or artificially manufactured. It has a source.

Neoliberalism has made geeks of us all: jocks, nerds, and dweebs alike.

how to write for Jacobin:

1. Identify a thing that's definitely bad.
2. Blame neoliberalism for that thing.
3. Something something Adorno?

i mean

um neoliberalism is bad hello

it's not that there aren't interesting things to still say about neoliberalism, but that well is pretty dry in 2014.

naw i agree that those on the left tend to just call everything and everyone they dont like neoliberalism

but i mean its just one sentence

i think someone very bright could write a very interesting piece about the history of gaming as it intertwines w/ (as well as subverts) neoliberalism + consumerism. i envision something like Attali's Noise but for games instead of music.

jesus

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/513082652518535168

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate

whoa

The correct title of this article is #GamerGate. The substitution or omission of the # is because of technical restrictions.

53 footnotes, damn

omg lolololol

https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/514080679030566912

holy shit

"Cultural Marxism" ?!?!

you are in for a world of fun if you dig around for that phrase

hahahahahahahahaha

facepalm of sadness

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38832734/boobs.0.0_standard_800.0.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K4s7cV4Us4
and it has come to this

is he a double agent

I find it kind of humorous (tinged with sadness) that someone paid AEI to make that.

In Japan, the number of female gamers is rapidly increasing. And as a result there are more and more games being made specifically for the female gamer market. Some have a very exaggerated 'cuteness' than seems to be deliberately 'non-sexual'. Others have suggestive sexual content but with the gender roles reversed. There are also many games featuring homosexual male characters but they are clearly aimed at female gamers.

That almost reads like a direct reflection of how manga markets have been for over a decade.

That almost reads like a direct reflection of how manga markets have been for over a decade.

Yeah, that's true. There's a very big overlap between the manga/anime audience and the video game audience.

Multimedia franchises - play the game, read the comic, watch the anime, buy the soundtrack, buy the figures/merchandise, play the pachinko machine, read the light novel, watch the movie etc.

Oh good, that's happening

Dammit. https://twitter.com/hashtag/comicgate

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/514813517715623936

haha #NotAllRadioDisneySingles

then they came for milo manara and i was silent
because i had been bound tightly in leather straps and a ball gag

http://i.imgur.com/x8t39eu.png

lol

hahahahaha

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/features/12306-Female-Game-Developers-Make-Statements-on-GamerGate

The general response appears to be that it's a shame that the ladies are so ill-informed about what GamerGate is about.