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> Is it just me, or is this kind of OK? For some values of "kind of." I would even go so far as to say on a practical matter it may be worse than intentional
by einhverfr 13y ago
> Is it just me, or is this kind of OK?
For some values of "kind of." I would even go so far as to say on a practical matter it may be worse than intentional discrimination.
Look, the problem is really one of intent and how well something matches intent. If you want a combat flight simulator that you are marketing primarily to young men, that's not necessarily a problem. If young women are less interested in your product, you need to serve those who are going to actually buy it.
But this works the other way too. If your target market is "everybody" then inducing motion sickness in 52% of your target demographic is not "ok" from a marketing perspective anymore than inducing seizures in the photosensitive would be. You don't want possible customers to get sick from your product. So on that level it isn't "kind of" ok.
This is an area where I actually think the less intentional discrimination, the more problematic it becomes.
- sliverstorm 13y agoYes, it's clearly a big problem from a business/marketing/profits standpoint. No question there, and I am 100% confident it will be addressed for exactly that reason. I'm just talking about socially, is this something we would want to get Very Pissed Off About and break out our torches & pitchforks.
- einhverfr 13y ago> is this something we would want to get Very Pissed Off About and break out our torches & pitchforks. No disagreement. But again I am not sure that all defining target market as young men ages 18 to 25 is necessarily problematic either. A lot of things really depend heavily on details.