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I think its very wrong to attribute the level of furor to her gender, and not to her words---misunderstood, and out of context as they may be. The level of fur
by true_religion 15y ago
I think its very wrong to attribute the level of furor to her gender, and not to her words---misunderstood, and out of context as they may be.
The level of furor would be the same were she a man, though the content of the flamewar would be much different since presumably males are insulted by different things than females and thus trolls have to tailor their speech for maximum impact.
Anyways, the reason I choose to frame this as PR struggle is that Bioware can take the highroad and have her publish another statement that clarifies her current thoughts on gaming.
The other option is to flame their own customers as misogynistic and leave FUD in the air about whether or not their games will be gutted for action content. I'd much rather they treat this as trolling, than as a civil rights crisis.
- jonnathanson 15y agoLevel and content may be more closely correlated than we think. There comes a certain tipping point wherein the outrageous (read: hilarious to the 4Chan crowd) content of a smear campaign inspires a bandwagon, and so the campaign both intensifies and scales up. Call it a not-so-virtuous cycle.