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I’m not saying that fat shaming is good, I’m saying that it is tolerated by gamers when you are not percieved to be part of some feminist media conspiracy and t
by chickenfries 9y ago
I’m not saying that fat shaming is good, I’m saying that it is tolerated by gamers when you are not percieved to be part of some feminist media conspiracy and the reaction to journalists who are percieved to be “not real gamers” is disproportionate.
- leereeves 9y agoIt may have been tolerated by some gamers but that's not a reason to tolerate it. So maybe that article was the straw that broke the camel's back. The very fact that you compared that article to fat shaming should show you that the article was "gamer shaming".
- chickenfries 9y ago> So maybe that article was the straw that broke the camel's back. Yes, I wonder why it was THIS particular straw that broke the camel's back. Gamergate was the video-game version of "wake up sheeple, the feminazi jews are running the media!." It's not meaningfully different from the rest of the culture wars. > The very fact that you compared that article to fat shaming should show you that the article was "gamer shaming". I didn't disagree, and tbh, neither does TFA. I'm not here to defend anything anyone has ever said in the media. In fewer words: ignoring the sexist dimension of gamergate is inappropriate revisionism. You're trying to say that there is something SO offensive about that article that it justifies what happened to Alexander afterwards. You also want to twist anything I say into some "example" of how "hosite" I am and how I'm everything wrong with PC culture or something. I'm not interested in continuing to discuss if you don't want to assume my good faith when I haven't questioned yours.