Yet another game developer driven out of her home by internet misogynists

[scooterlibby]

How exactly would they get their way? That's where I get lost. You're telling me that developers are going to watch a couple Youtube videos, think "Jesus God, I AM a monster," and scrap the next GTA to release an interactive Vagina Monologues rhythm game? "Boy, I sure am sick of these billions of dollars young men keep giving me, I better mix it up and alienate a completely different market segment for no particular reason." If you ignore these feminist critics and keep spending billions on games that they don't like, there's no market pressure for developers to change regardless of what some woman on Youtube says. You know how I know? Because radical feminists have been complaining about TV and movies for decades and we still have plenty of male-oriented programming to choose from; actually, it's the bulk of what gets made. Somehow they've managed to completely screw the pooch in changing other media, but they're going to get their way in a medium where they control far less of the market? That's delusional.

It's almost as if perhaps some of the rage isn't about an existential threat to "ethics in gaming journalism" (if it ever existed) or an actual fear that mainstream games are going away because someone took issue with them (they aren't). It's kind of interesting when you realize that and start to see what this is really a proxy argument for.

 

[ThinClient]

I am way behind on this gamergate thing. Is there a nice video I can watch to catch me up? The whole thing just blew right past me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45H25Sc6fig

 

[BoberFett]

It's almost as if perhaps some of the rage isn't about an existential threat to "ethics in gaming journalism" (if it ever existed) or an actual fear that mainstream games are going away because someone took issue with them (they aren't). It's kind of interesting when you realize that and start to see what this is really a proxy argument for.

It's almost as if perhaps some of the rage isn't about "misogyny in video games" (if it ever existed) or an actual fear that video games cause boys and men to mistreat women (they don't). It's kind of interesting when you realize that and start to see what this is really a proxy argument for.