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Don’t follow him much but do you got any links discussing Blow being sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic?

by jabbywocker 10mo ago

jna_sh 10mo ago
The second paragraph of the linked article?
- armitron 10mo ago
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  - perching_aix 10mo ago
    > a basic biological fact > looks inside > opinion He literally tells you that it's his bellyfeel: "I believe it is likely that (...)". Come on...
    - armitron 10mo ago
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      - fnimick 10mo ago
        It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?
      - ookdatnog 10mo ago
        > one that every practicing biologist would agree with Where are you getting this from? As far as I'm aware biologists, practicing or not, are not particularly concerned with the study of human behavior.
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      - djeastm 10mo ago
        >the same opinion being an uncontroversial fact in biology, I'm confused is it opinion or fact? Can't be both, can it?
- jabbywocker 10mo ago
  The Reddit link didn’t load for some reason and the other day be didn’t include anything racist, homophobic or transphobic. What it did cover is definitely a simplistic view ignoring the cultural nuances that might lower women’s participation in stem, but I’m not sure I’d classify it as sexist.
  - IAmBroom 10mo ago
    He suggests women are biologically less capable than men in STEM. But I note you didn't include misogyny as a problematic belief.
    - miltonlost 10mo ago
      I wonder what his take on the differences of IQ among races are. Bet it's also as "enlightening"
    - jabbywocker 10mo ago
      Maybe I read it wrong but I took it as him saying women are “naturally” less interested in STEM not that they are less capable in the area. And I’d say that misogyny falls under “sexist” in the list of problematic stuff
    - psyopsy 10mo ago
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uragur27754 10mo ago
This provides a good summary of the drama that he cultivates: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/aB0aOJ5cas https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/aB0aOJ5cas
- magicalist 10mo ago
  Clicking on a random link: > It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465 https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465 Dear lord, yeah, this is why I completely tuned him out years ago. Somewhat ironically it's the Blow fans in this thread that are cherry picking his comments. He's way too online so says things like this all the time, and it's the fans that are in here demanding a smoking gun comment that somehow proves he's awful rather than telling him "sometimes it's ok to stfu" to comments like this that enable and echo chamber him. And I say this as a fan of Braid and The Witness (at least of the first couple of layers of puzzles...as you go deeper, just like with Braid, you find more and more self-indulgent windbaggery that should have been on the cutting room floor).
  - DonHopkins 10mo ago
    Game Helpin' Squad totally takes the piss out of Braid's self-indulgent windbaggery in this review of "Time Travel Understander": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI
- bena 10mo ago
  This comment is pretty much the entire discussion whittled down to its essence. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jh275b/over_the_course_of_an_entire_year_rthewitness/mj87w2j/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jh275b/ove...
- CupricTea 10mo ago
  Wow, what a nauseating subreddit. They are notorious for poisoning the well, bad faith cherrypicking to misrepresent positions, and blowing their positions completely out of proportion, all for the sole effort of smearing whoever or whatever they make a topic about. And everything in that post are bad faith links to secondary reactionary sources. I don't really know much about Jonathan Blow or Jai or really follow it but it's astonishing to me that anyone could possibly take anything from that toxic subreddit with any sort of seriousness.

Don’t follow him much but do you got any links discussing Blow being sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic?

jna_sh 10mo ago

The second paragraph of the linked article?

armitron 10mo ago
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- perching_aix 10mo ago
  > a basic biological fact > looks inside > opinion He literally tells you that it's his bellyfeel: "I believe it is likely that (...)". Come on...
  - armitron 10mo ago
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    - fnimick 10mo ago
      It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?
    - ookdatnog 10mo ago
      > one that every practicing biologist would agree with Where are you getting this from? As far as I'm aware biologists, practicing or not, are not particularly concerned with the study of human behavior.
    - deleted 10mo ago
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    - djeastm 10mo ago
      >the same opinion being an uncontroversial fact in biology, I'm confused is it opinion or fact? Can't be both, can it?
jabbywocker 10mo ago
The Reddit link didn’t load for some reason and the other day be didn’t include anything racist, homophobic or transphobic. What it did cover is definitely a simplistic view ignoring the cultural nuances that might lower women’s participation in stem, but I’m not sure I’d classify it as sexist.
- IAmBroom 10mo ago
  He suggests women are biologically less capable than men in STEM. But I note you didn't include misogyny as a problematic belief.
  - miltonlost 10mo ago
    I wonder what his take on the differences of IQ among races are. Bet it's also as "enlightening"
  - jabbywocker 10mo ago
    Maybe I read it wrong but I took it as him saying women are “naturally” less interested in STEM not that they are less capable in the area. And I’d say that misogyny falls under “sexist” in the list of problematic stuff
  - psyopsy 10mo ago
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uragur27754 10mo ago

This provides a good summary of the drama that he cultivates: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/aB0aOJ5cas https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/aB0aOJ5cas

magicalist 10mo ago
Clicking on a random link: > It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465 https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465 Dear lord, yeah, this is why I completely tuned him out years ago. Somewhat ironically it's the Blow fans in this thread that are cherry picking his comments. He's way too online so says things like this all the time, and it's the fans that are in here demanding a smoking gun comment that somehow proves he's awful rather than telling him "sometimes it's ok to stfu" to comments like this that enable and echo chamber him. And I say this as a fan of Braid and The Witness (at least of the first couple of layers of puzzles...as you go deeper, just like with Braid, you find more and more self-indulgent windbaggery that should have been on the cutting room floor).
- DonHopkins 10mo ago
  Game Helpin' Squad totally takes the piss out of Braid's self-indulgent windbaggery in this review of "Time Travel Understander": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI
bena 10mo ago
This comment is pretty much the entire discussion whittled down to its essence. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jh275b/over_the_course_of_an_entire_year_rthewitness/mj87w2j/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jh275b/ove...
CupricTea 10mo ago
Wow, what a nauseating subreddit. They are notorious for poisoning the well, bad faith cherrypicking to misrepresent positions, and blowing their positions completely out of proportion, all for the sole effort of smearing whoever or whatever they make a topic about. And everything in that post are bad faith links to secondary reactionary sources. I don't really know much about Jonathan Blow or Jai or really follow it but it's astonishing to me that anyone could possibly take anything from that toxic subreddit with any sort of seriousness.