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

hahaha
3 cis white males and 1 cis white jock

pretty forward-thinking of #gamergate to recognise jock as a distinct gender

Ernst Rohm
Gay White Male

p sure max identifies as a fast hedgehog

CIS 'hog

god bless

lmao at the pic they used of slade villena

*salutes*
*eagle sheds single tear*
*american flag flutters*

I also really like that they specify "Native American POC" for Vox Day - don't be fooled by the photo!

If there's anything that makes social-justice types swoon and repent, it's invoking the American military.

#GamerGate: has served its country
Anti-#GamerGate: ?

love 2 military, love 2 justice

max looks like hes doing an "i dunno" shrug but its cropped out

this is incredible

privilege: check

check... mate

i'm so proud of max tbh

for sure, great work

watching this unfold is like watching someone wrestle with a can of silly string

justine tunney going in

https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/525689010266853377

this is the one tho https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/status/525683027137937408

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0uZ7VaCEAAjb2I.png

I am dying

RIP me

it's almost like kotaku and gawker are different websites run by different ppl

if gawker media changed its name to something else it wld help everything a lot

Casual Observer Media

nerd punching co.

ANTI-GEEK HATE SPEECH

GGers should rebrand themselves as Tri-Lambs

GGes should rebrand themselves as (be)Gone Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIJ2s_aT0k

these guys are never not not getting it

lmao for real at "arrest all geeks"

it's almost as though people with massive victim complexes are the real victims

this is going around

https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/525697776194437120

http://www.rllmukforum.com/uploads/monthly_10_2014/post-17274-0-36787300-1414174756.png

lol those are so good

OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE ANDREW SULLIVAN JUST POSTED ON THIS

YES THERE IS A SOUTH PARK SCREENSHOT

"I LIKE CARL MARX. HE WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE."

https://twitter.com/zpxlng/status/525643616304107521

lol - that's pretty great.

'now I can go back to being a gentleman on the internet' *adjusts fedora*

The gaming ethics have been kidnapped by SJW's. Are you a rad enough dude to rescue the ethics?

lol

So Andrew Sullivan says some things:

There’s an atmosphere in which it has somehow become problematic to have a classic white, straight male identity, and a lot that goes with it. I’m not really a part of that general culture – indifferent to boobage, as I am, and bored by violence. But I don’t see why it cannot have a place in the world. I believe in the flourishing of all sorts of cultures and subcultures and have long been repulsed by the nannies and busybodies who want to police them – whether from the social right or the feminist left.

But – and here’s where the logic escapes me – if the core gamers really do dominate the market for these games, why do they think the market will stop catering to them? The great (and not-so-great) thing about markets is that they are indifferent to content as such. If “hardcore gamers” skew 7 -1 male, and if corporations want to make lots of money, then this strain of the culture is hardly under threat. It may be supplemented by lots of other, newer varieties, but it won’t die. Will it be diluted? Almost certainly. Does that feel like an assault for a group of people whose identity is deeply bound up in this culture? Absolutely. Is it something anyone should really do anything about? Nah. Let a thousand variety of nerds and post-nerds bloom. And leave Kenny McCormick alone. This doesn’t have to be zero-sum.

The analogy a reader made this morning between the end of gamer culture and the end of gay culture was really helpful to me. I’ve written and blogged a lot about the end of gay culture; and I’ve always tried to present both sides of the argument. Yes, I wouldn’t trade our freedom for the closeted, marginalized past; at the same time, it’s impossible not to feel some regret at the close-knit, marginalized, very distinctive solidarity gays have lost as a group, and some affection for a world, built defiantly to defend itself against outsiders, that is dissipating before our eyes and on our apps. I’m for integration and against identity politics. But do I miss what, say, leather bars once were – and feel very conflicted now that bachelorette parties come and go as they please in some of them? Do I harbor some traces of resentment at those who treat gay culture as some kind of straight playground, or at the mob of straight folks who will swamp any gay presence at next week’s once-very gay high heel race in Dupont Circle? Guilty as charged.

And look, many gamers were the bullied in high school; this was their safe space; it was a place they could call home. They now feel it slipping away, and it has unhinged some and disconcerted many, as a lot of mainstream culture has heaped scorn and ridicule on them at the same time. And I’m sorry, but I feel some sympathy here. That sympathy has, alas, been swamped by revulsion at the rhetoric and tactics that have come to define this amorphous movement....

somebody set him up the bomb

full link behind paywall: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/24/the-end-of-gamer-culture-2/

"I LIKE RICHARD MARX. HE WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE."

cultural richard marxism is something i could get behind

Gawker's coverage, he goes on to say:

...pure vitriol, resting on an unspoken, hard left view of culture that is more disturbing because it presents itself as snark and analysis, rather than tired, easy agit-prop. It’s a classic piece that asks all the cool kids today to smear and dismiss all the bullied of yesterday – and give them one last shove into the locker. Gawker’s Joel Johnson actually cites the piece thus:

Gawker Media has been covering the often-confounding phenomenon of Gamergate in detail, and will keep on covering it.

That piece was not so much “covering the phenomenon” as viciously skewing it. And yes, its tone smacked of bullying and dismissal. When you’re telling people they don’t even deserve to be in a debate, and associate them with segregationists and every other entity good liberals have been taught to despise, “dismissive” is the least of it.

Look: whatever case the gamergate peeps have, they have botched it with their tactics. Those tactics have been repellent in every sense of the word. But bullying has occurred on both sides, and only one side was bullied before.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/441968a1a8eab5561889cb6e414cd6b0/tumblr_ndxajzwDsF1qz8u8ho1_500.jpg