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

misotunney

anyone wanna come over? Play some gams?

some gam gams?

check out those gams

http://twitter.com/woneal/status/527479486527590401/photo/1

ha niice

atheistconservative

we really could come up with a name generator, couldn't we?

brb gotta angrily post on youtube as vapinglibertariangamer

gamingandlogichistorian

atheistconservative furious that that guy was in the hitler youth and didn't even kill any jews

@minecraftalpha

who was the #gjpros leaker anyway

misohorny

"Wow, sexist and racist. Two in one. You have a gift."

these gamergaters remind me of a cargo cult, like they think if they put on dad's suit and mouth the big serious words they think grownups use, they will all be magically deemed serious adults and their serious concerns about ethics in game journalism will assume gravitas, but like the islanders who built an airplane out of palm fronds or w/e they still have no insight at all how any of it actually works

I guess in that way it's just continuing the m.o. of the MRA/fedora sphere, with its obsession with divining the right shibboleths to utter and special garb to wear and mystic rites to enact to access social cachet rather than learning how to be a person in the world

tangentially related, but I'm interested in seeing Nightcrawler which seems to touch upon this sort of internet-educated recluse but applying it to the world tabloid journalism, or something

otm xp

THEY HAVE NO SERIOUS CONCERNS

solid post anonanon

another good american cargo cult is these folks "I'm a sovereign human being, I stand under common law only" - Thread of Freemen

thing is that cargo cults have a rational and explicable basis for their beliefs

yeah youre right that this is an insult to cargo cults and i appologize

at least some good has come of all this

I think we've answered jjj's initial question pretty thoroughly by this point:

Because of ethics in gaming journalism!

otm

Did A Message Board Regular Prophecize the Eruption of Gamergate More Than Two Years Before It Happened?

the answer may surprise you

in a thread frequented by primary #gamergate enemies

http://i.imgur.com/vAQZtsY.jpg

I love these pyramids.
lol at ying yang symbol under "religion"

ya illuminati pyramids are extremely my shit

Think Tanks more powerful than central banks!

ffs wake up sheeping

look folks keep this under yr respective fedoras but i am on the council of 13 and there is no fucking 'world monarch' that is just embarrassing

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/28/article-2093229-117F0F42000005DC-708_634x688.jpg

"Club of Rome, that's hot."

World's richest, most powerful sub-families

http://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-find-that-female-pc-gamers-outnumber-males/

losing their minds on the chans over this. never seen goalposts move so quickly

p surprised by that

women finally breaking through the glass basement

i haven't looked at the comments yet but i'm guessing they're all "farmville doesn't count"

lol xp

Senior analyst Stephanie Llamas wrote in a follow-up blog post that the growing popularity of "casual platforms" has helped reinforce the false assumption that women are primarily casual gamers. But the reality, says Llamas, is that half of female PC gamers in the US consider themselves either "mid-core or hardcore gamers."

goes to the self-identifying as 'gamers' convo we had all the way upthread

The comments are a treat. On so-called "casual gamers" being called "gamers":

It does however devalue the term and there are people who identify with it. Would you like your neighbour identifying as your wife's second husband just because they shook hands? Would an archaeologist like it if people started calling them dogs because they both dig out bones?

they're so good at not thinking through the subtexts of analogies

also at not understanding how analogies work at all

there's also the guy who says women outnumber men in social gaming spaces 1:1.

it's like watching a slow motion collapse as these dudes continue to be confronted with evidence that challenges their narrative of primacy in a hobby they've been consistently out of touch with for years now. the gg crew represents, apparently, an ever smaller demo in an evolving and diversifying landscape. it is truly no wonder they've attracted attention from the social conservative wings, since ideologically they share nearly identical ideological anxieties

second ideology mention superfluous; much shame on my house

High hopes for this turning out a smart and civil discussion like the horror films why not thread, deep fears that it will descend into madness fyi

― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:32 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it took us a while but we got there eventually

but ilx didn't even provide the madness