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

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/anita-sarkeesian-gamergate-interview-20141017

lol @ GamerGate

― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Friday, October 17, 2014 1:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good read - gained even more respect for her. Comments section, as usual, lays bare why it's all necessary.

love how every anti socialist/feminist/etc fuckhead vlogger is guaranteed w/in the first 30 seconds to recommended you watch some of their other videos

true capitalists know you've always got to be selling

coffee is for vloggers

love how some of these guys think having a middle class mum and dad and a BTEC in ICT makes them uebermenschen

how does cultural marxism subvert the masses *SHREDS*

looooool

honestly once that video got to the guitar lick I had seen everything I needed to see

goole you are a national treasure

aw <3

if twitter chatter is to be believed, mercedes benz pulled their ads from gawker over sam biddle's "bullying"

loool

benzghazi

oh hey here is the google doc of their advertiser contact plan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16zOUuG855sTeaONfRX5Em6cIZKw5w-Vk3yG2NoG_ND0/preview?sle=true

ok, time to do something else for the afternoon

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/523190925812842496

what

what a dummy

doesnt even make any sense

New Allen ‏@nualln 31m31 minutes ago

@dutchindian @EWErickson @instapundit my degree is in journalism and I'm very pro-#gamergate. Not all of us are idiots.

lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

He's right. Some are cretins too.

oh good I'm finally attracting some #GamerGate hate: https://twitter.com/Jack_Rayner_III/status/523201233625313280

told off by "Jack the Fuckboy", lol

I can't tell if 'women' or 'women studies majors' is the more likely disambiguation.

Ohhhhh shit somebody done got Maguired!

Sorry to hear that DJP! It sucks that people are being intimidated to not speak out about this. I want to write how lousy this stuff is on Twitter but i don't want to get hijacked by these people.

um I am delighted actually

wow that guy is a piece of work.

women/gender ideologues

iirc there are more people that graduate each year with a journalism degree than there are journalists employed in the US. every. year.

there were a couple people in this philosophy of logic course I took in college (it counted as a _math credit_ for journalism majors) who just couldn't get the different between falsifiable things and non-falsifiable things. I believe they also struggled on labeling fact vs. opinion. I can only assume they are highly-regarded journalists now.

ok, chiming in on DJP's twitter comments so more to try to get this rolling

Yessssss

ok one more good one before the weekend. tgif everybody

https://twitter.com/jamieroling/status/523059377331523584

you know if we started by throwing everyone with an anime avatar on Twitter in jail that might be a good start

i've got a manga one, could i get off with a suspended sentence or is it too late

we'll send you to a diversionary program

you know if we started by throwing everyone with an anime avatar on Twitter in jail that might be a good start

where is the czar to make this happen

Thomas Friedman says that China could get it done.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0AVVK4CQAAoq0C.png

https://38.media.tumblr.com/c69f447f5355ec163de25eec5941efe9/tumblr_ndkqtb2Yer1qzpkjoo1_500.jpg

lol

i made a joke @ sam about him being bullied into apologizing and it got RT'd by like 30 GG people ... i dont think they got it

Max had a thing on Twitter about how these dudes don't seem to get written irony

about half of them seem to have no clue how to read context or tone into stuff, whether it's because they're too young or sheltered to have the background or because of some other reason, and the other half seems to be deeply disingenuous

i mean i knew this was insane but i didnt know HOW insane. i keep waiting for an adult to step in

prob there is a better term for it nowadays and i apologize for using it particularly in this context but there is a freaky element of mass hysteria about the way these folks are operating that is genuinely terrifying to see in action

one day these ppl are going to come to their senses and piggy's corpse will be lying there and they won't have any idea how it got to that point

I guess I'm more used to the stupid persecution complex and irrational anger of the culture so it's not super shocking

Someone tweeted me once that my whole family should get cancer because I gave the HD remake of Jet Grind Radio (a game w anime roller bladers) a 7.5 out of 10

xp yeah, the ginning up of existential threat from... basically nothing? is one of the most unsettling things about this.

Jet Grind/Set Radio the original is a 10, though.

the HD remake was Hitler's fav video game iirc

Getting rid of review scores and having text only reviews would help a lot

Jet Grind/Set Radio the original is a 10, though.

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:50 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I guess my whole family does deserve cancer good point.