Uh, so your suggestion is that video games are to blame for Elliot Rodger’s crimes? Congrats on joining the long list of stalwart citizens who have bleated about the need to get rid of comics, rock & roll, science fiction, horror movies, metal music, rap music, video games, anime, etc. for the past 80 years, for our protection.
At least update your meme and blame the Baltimore riots on the spread of cosplaying or whatnot.
self-interested and desirous of removing games they find “problematic” from the public.
Please define what this means for Sarkeesian with supporting evidence.
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I like how at least one of the quotes isn’t from Anita at all but from her producer.
-Todd
7/10 and the only ones I got wrong were actually Jack Thompson statements. I’m not sure that the quiz demonstrates anything more than the fact that Jack Thompson is a loon (and that anyone that hates Anita will do pretty much anything to discredit her). Also, where were all of Anita’s censorship statements? Not sure I saw any…
flyinj
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Really? Show me a quote from Anita where she states she wants to “remove” a “problematic” game from the public.
Or is this more of a “uppity woman had the gall to point out that there are problems with women’s image in games, therefore she wants to ban all my boobs!”
flyinj
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Also, GamerGate is furious over this “hatchet job” article which makes their virtuous founder look like a creepy sociopathic stalker:
Look to McIntosh for all of FemFreqs more batty comments.
and look to #beachbodyready vs #everybodysready (now with added SJW bomb threats!) to see where this heading.
It is a really weird article considering how little Gamergate is associated with that dude. It’s like a 1916 article that’s focusing on the lack of justification for Franz Ferdinand’s assassination to criticize WW1 Russia. Is anyone surprised that someone who slept with Quinn is a weirdo?
Do you seriously think she doesn’t want the harmful “tropes” she talks about removed from gaming? She’d be content with them persisting as long as games that incorporated them got docked 10% in their review scores, lool?
ShivaX
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Desslock, Internet Psychic Investigator.
Now tell us what Rand Paul really thinks!
You don’t exactly have to be psychic to understand that when someone says “incandescent bulbs are problematic” that they are advocating for their removal.
Games aren’t bulbs. She’s advocating for a change in overall perception and understanding that would eventually lead to a reduction of new products that fall into the subgenre if not the outright extinction of it. That’s functionally different from removal, even if the end result is the same.
Man, I wish. Cosplaying is probably the biggest trigger I have for people needing to get off my lawn. Well, that and the fact that apparently anything a millenial draws on the Internet ever has to be in a shitty “learn to draw anime in 30 days!” style.
Quaro
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It’s a joke, the same person who wrote that quiz wrote that response to Elliot Rodger.
Criticizing something is not the same thing as trying to get something banned.
There is a particular musical artist that my eldest daughter listens to and <shudder> put on the iPod I use when exercising when she borrowed it. I really, really dislike the artist and beleive that the world would be a better place if he were vaporized by a meteorite strike. I hope that my kid will listen to my well-reasoned arguments as to why his music is inferior to the protracted sound of car-gears grinding and stop listening to his music. But despite my deep aversion to the artist, I am not planning on actually deleting his stuff from her library because I recognize that not everyone is as enlightened as I am and everyone must reach sanity in his or her own way.
I did delete the music from my iPod because it’s MY goddamned iPod and I’m never going to be pedaling down the road and have that shit ambush me like that again.
Over the past six months, she’s received dozens of death threats, including a YouTube video during which a man wearing a skull mask speaks to the camera: “We’ll stop at nothing to bring back the way it used to be in the 1950s [when] there weren’t any bitches in video games,” the man, wielding a hammer, said, calling for “the death of Brianna Wu.”
I assume they bristle at the liberal politics embodied by Spacewar (1962).
Ah I see, you’re an advocate of censorship. Or at least as the frothing Twitter/reddit/whatever hordes apparently understand the term.
Characterizing something as problematic and harmful is advocating its removal, of course. You don’t want it retained. You don’t accept that it’s just indicative that you’re not the target market for the content, because you actually believe (just like Jack Thompson) that it’s harmful.
Saying that music stinks and I wish that my daughter would listen to something with more depth and substance, produced by more talented creators, is not the same as concluding that music is “problematic and harmful” -you wouldn’t be much of a parent if you didn’t try to remove something you felt was harming your kid.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that you want it to be unavailable to all kids, but if you opted to make the entire focus of your career publicly lecturing on its harm and problematic nature then (unless you were being insincere) it’s clear you want it gone.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think there is more gray area between those two two extremes (“I don’t care for this”; “I will take steps to ban this”) than you are acknowledging. And of course there is scope to consider – I can not want X around my kids and still be in favor of X being available to others.
And Sarkeesian seems far closer to the “I don’t like this and here’s why” side of the equation. Is she hoping that her opinion will cause fewer of the things that she doesn’t like to be produced? Sure, but that’s a far cry from litigating your opinion on others. One is argument, the other is dictation.
ShivaX
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There’s a pretty big difference between “this could be a lot better” and “this should be illegal” in most people’s books.
Addressed that, but probably after you started replying.
Is she hoping that her opinion will cause fewer of the things that she doesn’t like to be produced? Sure
Which is why I said she was advocating its removal, as she clearly is. She’s not capable of doing anything further towards that aim - she can’t mandate it, or dictate it to use your words - she’s already doing everything within her power to facilitate that result.
