Ironic
Okay I’m so done with some of the gaming community!
Everyone who has been abusing the woman is a total ass hat! Who the f**k in this day and age is still this narrow minded that they think Anita Sarkeesian, a cultural critic, is destroying video games? Who would spend so much time and energy to photoshop images of people raping her, making a game where you can beat her to in inch of her life, send enough death threats to make her need to leave her house, or threaten death and carnage on a school because she is speaking her mind!
I have been a part of the gaming community ever since I was playing a hand me down an atari 2600 at the age of 4 and I have never felt shame about being a part of this community, until now. We as a community need to stand together and stop letting these horrible people, that would abuse a woman because of her views, define us. Let’s rise above this shit and show we are better then this!
I for one am no longer going to let these stories slide, I’m going to find a way to show my support to the kind and noble gamers out there like Anita Sarkeesian, and show the would we can stand together and not let something like this stand!
Read more here about the School threat story.
And watch this talk about what some people have been doing to Anita:
Sorry about the rant, but this stuff has been bugging me.
Option 1: laugh derisively. All other hipsters crown the clown king of the hipsters. This guy gets beheaded for his insolence. Option 2: He crowns the clown king of the hipsters. All of his friends laugh at him, and he dies cold and alone.
It’s the perfect kobayashi maru. It gives me shivers.
Re Anita Sarkeesian
I’m also part of the gaming community and refuse to feel anything different about it because of the actions of one person.
When we let scum like that win, we loose more than a single issue.
Free speech isn’t about rights, it’s about what we, as individuals and as a group are prepared to accept.
I refuse to accept censorship. I refuse to accept self censorship.
Spunko! You were my hero! Why did you have to order PBR? D:
So glad I left the gaming community shortly after coming out as trans*. I have enough narrow-minded people in my life.
Just what the hell is the “gaming community?” I wouldn’t call the people responsible for any of this abuse “gamers.” They are TROLLS! The resent Brenda Leyland, the woman who was trolling Kate and Gerry McCann, has put new light on the trolling problem. http://news.yahoo.com/death-british-troll-sparks-debate-over-internet-bile-133700371.html;_ylt=AwrBEiRa9TtU40oAoEnQtDMD
Damn! I made a spelling error. I meant recent, not resent.
It’s a community of trolls and terrible human beings.
It’s utterly deplorable that, in this day and age, people would attack a woman for standing up for her rights.
Within the gaming community, there’s always been this “boy’s club”, and the average male gamer always feels intimidated when they come across a female gamer. I’ve ran into issues where, especially with MMORPG’s, if I outed myself as female, I would be hounded, hit on, and even purposely attacked just for being female, and it always turns me off from wanting to play. In one instance, I tried to tella guy who was hitting on me that I’m a lesbian (an actual fact, not just a way to get him to leave me alone), and it only got worse.
In fact, I recently quit playing two of my most favorite online games for that very reason. I even saw one instance where a male gamer outed himself as trans, and he was constantly attacked, not just in the game, but with death threats. It’s a sad commentary of the world we live in.
All any gamer wants, regardless of gender or sexuality, is to enjoy themselves, to “blow off steam”, as it were, by escaping this world for a little while, to let go of their worries and immerse themselves in something enjoyable. Unfortunately, the male gamers out there still think women are pieces of meat, and treat them as such. It’s kind of pathetic.
I think it should be noted that aside from the standard issue internet trolls that harass everything on the internet, the people that actually criticize Anita Sarkeesian do so because she has been exposed as a con artist by dozens of people all over the internet. She has been shown to lie, be dishonest about the cherry picked info she chooses to discuss, accept massive donations for projects she doesn’t produce, fake threats against herself and so on. I highly recommend the Thunderfoot vs Anita Sarkeesian video series (there are close to a dozen by now) link to a sample video to follow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Ju-1I1DTU) is just one such example
MrRepzion’s video series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsfXkbzRI4) Re: Damsels Part II: The Sarkeesian Method is another such example. Just a little research will clearly demonstrate just how wholly dishonest that women is. Long story short, people don’t hate her because she is female, they dislike her because she is a liar and a con artist. Thank you for your time.
I have been playing video games since Pong first came out in stores, and I am also disgusted by what has been happening in the community. It has been hijacked by misogynists and trolls and misogynist trolls (lots of overlap there).
Yeah… i disagree. I have seen many videos of her making outrages claims and false statements. And she’s a TERF how in the heck could a trans-women support her? She claims things like no supporting females in games yet me and others can name 1,000s of titles with women as heroes and shown in a respectful way.
She lies about getting death threats.
She make drama when there is none just to get more views.
she’s nothing more than a lying TERF that wants to change the world in her own views as whats right and wrong.
A good start to understand what she really is, Look up Thunderf00t on youtube.
If she’s a TERF, then I can’t support her. But, I also can’t support the attitude towards female gamers, especially towards transgender female gamers.
wish there was a way to find anyone who supports gamertag and Ban hammer them from evry game and social media site they’ve ever been or will be on. they make gamers such as myself loo bad, and if anyone makes it personal and attacks my mom for her gaming, good possibility I ignore my impulse control, block my empathy and prove those online psychiatry tests right, I am a peaceable person, but there are so many damn humans that just need to cease existing, and id gladly do it myself even if it means seppuku is necessary afterwords, and not the wussy ass kind where someone beheads you after you do the first cut, the true kind that takes days to die. Honour to those who know what I speak of. oh and hope you’re having a good week Ms. Terra, and sorry I can’t help with your fundraising though I enjoy your comic, disability sucks.
Anita doesn’t deserve what she’s been getting, but the people doing this are not gamers. They’re psychotic assholes.
Even though she doesn’t deserve all these death threats, I just don’t like her. I’m not gonna attack her because I’m more mature than that.
I could say that I actually support GamerGate, but then I would get attacked because of what the assholes have done to corrupt the original purpose, which was to stop corruption in video game journalism. I support the good side of GamerGate, but then I get grouped in with all the assholes anyway because of people who don’t understand what I’m talking about.
Can we just live in a world where we play whatever game we want without being vilified by the media? I’m sick of hearing the words, “Video Games cause violence” and “If you play video games, you’re a sexist and a misogynist.” The media is so corrupt.
Sorry for that rant.
Regarding the gaming community. It is just like the real world with its fringe of haters.
I am a volunteer game master online in a small world, and we have a certain number of players who DEMAND special treatment and gear and stuff and freely interfere with the gameplay of others. We talk to them and point out that no one else gets special treatment, that, yes, X has a mansion, but X has been in our community for 5 years and earned it. If they don’t learn, the leadership team will eventually vote to ban them. Generally, that works, only got us one DDOS attack.
Unfortunately, we can’t do that in the RW. The social sites where they post their garbage need to man up and start blocking or censoring them.
Every community has a positive and negative side to it.
Every community has its trolls and misogynists.
Do not put all the blame on the gaming community itself, we are not all terrible people. I support equal rights for everyone, I support the LGBT community, and I support the gaming community. There are good and bad people in every community; do not let the more vocal individuals silence the reserved individuals.