Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

note also the 8chan banner, sad there are no WizardChan representatives

diverse army though, there is a woman (maybe another one deep in the back), an eagle-american, and even a skeleton of color

Q: should we start a new general thread for making fun of Red Pill/Return of Kings/MRA shit?

did the other MRA thread get closed?

I'll re-open the thread.

Maybe there should be a new thread though for real. It seems like there was some confusion/bitterness around whether it could be a serious discussion or was just a thread to make fun of shit.

Yeah, I mean, it veered wildly in tone. I don't know. The option's there if you want to use the old one or you could start a new one that isn't inhabited by the ghosts of dead clusterfucks.

oh yeah. new one, please

Ok, suggest a title? Something like Rolling Thread for NON-Serious Discussion of MRA/Red Pill/Return of Kings/Miscellaneous Neckbeardery

discussion of MRA fuckery

no, don't attract attn. these dudes are nuts

i think misc neckbeardery is ok tho. maybe too much fedora tho

the fedora thread would work if there wasn't so much actual had discussion going on

Maybe we could make it a 77 thread if there's concern about randoms showing up

as a non-77er I would be sad if my right to laugh at neckbeards was denied

too late sorry, u should request access

we should make a private I Love Neckbeards board

call it GizzardChan

as a non-77er I would be sad if my right to laugh at neckbeards was denied

cosign ;_;

at this juncture i think having threads to dredge up the most toxic misogynistic lunatic shit we can find is nagl

Yes! I knew Amazing Atheist would come through. https://twitter.com/amazingatheist/status/527975524703141888

xp yeah crut i think that's true but on the other hand we have a bunch of threads for collating lolworthy internet stupids

i can never remember which pill is which : /

yeah idk seems like we have any number of rolling threads for documenting dudes of this variety

if anything GG demonstrates how interlinked and indistinguishable they are anyway

oh i didn't get you started one already! carry on

we should make a private I Love Neckbeards board

― kissaroo and Tyler, too (DJP), Friday, October 31, 2014 11:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

call it GizzardChan

― The Falun Gong Show (Noodle Vague), Friday, October 31, 2014 11:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

xp to crut: yeah I can see for similar reasons to the "Is This Racist" thread that we don't want to just have a thread of "Here's a big heaping pile of toxic woman hating" thread. But some of this shit is so unintentionally hilarious. So w/e, I defer to mods if they want to lock the thread I started.

http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/readers-respond-on-game-over

readers respond

(aside from inchoate anti-woman rage of course) the illiteracy and miseducation of GG is the thing that drives me up a fuckin wall most

“If you’re going to demonize the word [gamer], then demonize ‘feminism’ too,” wrote one reader with the display name I’m a Gamer, “because it’s been hijacked by radicalists trying to subjugate men.”

"radicalists"?

fun fact i have come across several GGers who literally think sarkeesian was unable to name 3 video games on colbert

Idiots

Like, you really have to have never ever watched an interview with anyone to believe that.

Also the idea that she wants ''all games to be Candy Crush or Angry Birds,'' which requires you misread virtually every word in all of her videos, interviews and writings.

I doubt very much if all but a handful of these fucknuts have ever bothered to do any of those things

There was even specifically a segment in one of her videos about gender stereotyping in Angry Birds.

(aside from inchoate anti-woman rage of course) the illiteracy and miseducation of GG is the thing that drives me up a fuckin wall most

“If you’re going to demonize the word [ gamer], then demonize ‘feminism’ too,” wrote one reader with the display name I’m a Gamer, “because it’s been hijacked by radicalists trying to subjugate men.”

"radicalists"?

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Friday, October 31, 2014 4:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A meme that I have seen often in MRA/Redpill/ROK/Gamergate/random other black hold internet comment threads is "I think feminism achieved some good once when it was just fighting for equal rights for women, but now the RADICAL feminists have ruined everything." It's very much parallel imo to people who claim to be for civil rights but you know that was a thing we already sorted out and now these angry blacks keep playing the race card.

*hole

i don't think i've read anything by any of these guys where they've used the word feminist w/o throwing radical in front of it, which is SOP form of dismissing the interest of the other

yeah I mean it's just a rhetorically defensive move "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the RADICAL feminists," but then everything remotely feminist gets termed "radical."

Yeah, especially given that ''this media artifact has worrisome gendered tropes'' has to be one of THE mildest feminist tendencies possible, it's like, just, gender studies 101 or high school advanced literature class stuff. If these clowns actually encountered a radical feminist I think their faces would melt off like Eaiders of the Lost Ark.

"Now I know what I am, I was worried because I thought I should be a feminist, but now I know I'm something better - an equalist"

Yall so otm.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/3b86c1b51534f366901fe0d781bf485a/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o1_500.jpg

http://33.media.tumblr.com/e9ab1eb780247783f38d8bf982b2f91c/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o2_500.jpg

http://38.media.tumblr.com/fdf8ae155e9e9f693b45b8127fa2f3d9/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o3_500.jpg

http://33.media.tumblr.com/63b8257b1fa698ead9eb22291d0c6167/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o4_500.jpg

A great follow-up from the writer of the first "Gamers are Dead" post.

And a good follow-on from that

Oh look, David Auerbach wrote an earlier dumb thing about all this too:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gamergate_explodes_gaming_journalists_declare_the_gamers_are_over_but_they.html

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/Authors/david_auerbach-authorbio.png

People who think they can 'engineer' solutions to everything are so unbearable

otm

dead ringer for milhouse imo

we were just fighting about that upthread!

you mean thrillho