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

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

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

isn't this person just a sock?

would post the "actually" thread but it's 77

Your grandma plays video games.

? which person, the chan poster or that twitter acct?

xps

last dozen posts itt <3 <3

i mean the chan poster "The Leader of Gamergate"

i think that site puts that "title" on every post in the gg board. joeks.

i mean, there's no way of knowing really.

Everyone's grandma.

https://twitter.com/Ugarles/status/498886333516251137

Adam Baldwin, meet clickhole.

loooooooooooooool

Whatta maroon

http://i.imgur.com/y9BT8J3.png

good god that Marx WAS A FUCKING RAD DUDE quote is the best

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zBTOlkueeqo/Tvp3aRjln3I/AAAAAAAADt8/7GwXIIoTVyE/s1600/25hkavt.gif
early 1st gen marxist

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0Ao1AOCYAAWc1z.png

deepest sock imo

man i think i finally reached my limit on these smug shits and their absurd theories. i can't find this nonsense funny anymore, now i just want to punch everyone right in their stupid face.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0xd-DYCIAAmPFm.png

the greatest trick max r3ad ever played was . . .

it is incredible how much mileage they're getting out of completely misunderstanding everything about journalism

well i guess it's just the right amount of mileage

nick denton's private troll army exposed:

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1300000/Troll-Dolls-troll-dolls-1353645-500-296.jpg

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1300000/Troll-Dolls-troll-dolls-1353645-500-296.jpg

:(

censored by the SJWs!

oh shit a_girl_irl is back! gawker must've put him back on the payroll

http://i.imgur.com/zZMslm2.png

the comment along that thread that refers to professor pretentious user name as a "false equivalency machine" is on point.

tbh i do worship mario as a god tho