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His "fairly extensively documented history of sexual harassment" stems almost exclusively from the words of a contemporary video game developer, Brianna Wu, who
by manfredo 7y ago
His "fairly extensively documented history of sexual harassment" stems almost exclusively from the words of a contemporary video game developer, Brianna Wu, who formed this perspective based on secondhand accounts. Interviews with the people who were at Atari at the time of the alleged sexist behavior disagreed with the categorization.
In my view this is not sufficient to warrant scrubbing people's names from our historical memory.
- Pfhreak 7y ago> In my view this is not sufficient to warrant scrubbing people's names from our historical memory. Did someone suggest doing that? I said it's important to contextualize his work, not to write him out. You are arguing against a position I don't hold. > Interviews with the people who were at Atari at the time of the alleged sexist behavior disagreed with the categorization Nolan himself went on record in 2012 in Playboy describing a wild atmosphere and describing one of his employees as 'stacked', the 2001 book The Ultimate History of Video Games describes his attitude, Nolan told the San Francisco Chronicle "Some ladies feel comfortable around me, some don't."