• Gamings Toxic Men, Explained
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Then don't read it but don't take me sharing it as anything other than sharing it. If you don't want to engage in conversation, don't. Don't just proclaim that like it has value, it doesn't. People should be aware of misinformation being spread. If you disagree, okay cool, but I posted this here so that people here can have a discussion about it if they want. There's no need to proactively police that away.
Almost if u jus copypasta ur usual semanitx for clix smh 2018
But you are directly spreading this 'misinformation' and the only remark on your first post being that "it's wrong" without giving reasons.
Sure, I guess I was expecting people to think for themselves though.
Any narrative that places blame on men as the antagonists and women as the victims in any social paradigm is usually... just ridiculous. To act as if men are the harassers and women are the harassed is fucking ludicrous and paints a target on the backs of men while propping up this idea that women need to be protected at all costs. Men are capable of harassing people. Women are -- holy shit this is crazy I know -- also fully capable of harassing people. It's almost as if spewing shit at a specific demographic for bad actors within that demographic is bigotry.
To be fair to the social media giants, the potential backlash they face for policing their site is extremely disproportionate. Youtube already gets accused of trying to silence half the site any time somebody's videos get removed or sometimes even demonetized. Them doing nothing is bad, but there are some things they just can't be expected to do.
the amazing thing is that DOOM in reality is just the absolute opposite of that polygon video it's just constant raw anger and momentum, only stopping for some few moments to be led again into the fire
It reminds me of the console ports of Counter Strike. It's just not a type of game that plays well on a twinstick, really FPS as a whole are terrible with controllers, but games like Doom and Counter Strike end up looking the worst for it because they made absolutely no concessions in their design to accommodate the inferiority of twinstick controllers.
I recall reading about her involvement in helldump, not hellraid. Did you make a mistake, or is there more to this that I'm not aware of?
Thing is, she shouldn't really be talking about privileged if she want's to get poor people to understand those concepts, she should be talking about institutionalized racism and sexism.
You’re right thank you it was helldump. Same premise, just sounds even dumber.
Going into detail with the example of Youtube, is more about demonetizing LGBT videos for no reason ( as well as not showing them when activating the kids filter ) yet allowing far-right and gore ones ( plus allowing this kind of ads, which is equally worse ). Also they don't act agaisnt waves of harassament / channels where only exists to attack other people / plain offensive in general ( just look at Logan Paul ). IDK from where it has come the thought of the last four years about Internet can't be policed /One can't control the thoughts of their users when we have regulating forums agaisnt trolls since forever.
When did toxic become such a popular word? I know it's said constantly now, but I never heard it in reference to bad behavior until just a few years ago. And I just can't take it seriously. Like, instead of being "bad" or "shitty" or "assholish" or anything else that would accurately describe the behavior, people describe it as "toxic". As if the behavior is objectively terrible and actively destroying the community. It just seems like it's another level of trying to objectively label behavior as negative.
Competitive games like League of Legends and CSGO popularized the word I don't think there is any special meaning to it being 'toxic' instead of 'asshole' beyond toxic implying it can spread
What? How many videos did you watch?
I haven't read the entire article because it's long as fuck but a common theme I'm seeing is that someone will make a claim, not back it up with anything, then explain how that claim about a very specific thing (being trash talked in a video game) can be applied to real life. And then you have the ones like Sarkeesian who outright lie in their very first piece, with no challenge from the editor. It's like reading a Jordan Peterson transcript; rambling, incoherent, and when you do find something resembling a solid point being made there is zero evidence to back it up. It's just taken for granted. Gamers are toxic, video game companies hate women, and men are lashing out at women who are invading their space. Pure sophistry.
Yeah, just like with every hobby, because assholes are people who have hobbies too. It just so happens that adding anonymity makes people shittier, and gaming is a massive hobby with a huge anonymity factor. Sports fans are a pretty good comparison tbh.
That was the first one I saw and I think it was one of the first ones that came out. I remember there was a whole thread here for that video and most people inside were shitting on the game because the impression of that video was SO BAD.
There are a lot of shitty people in gaming, the article just makes it think men are the problem, anyone who paid attention to Anita or sites like Polygon/Kotaku/Waypoint know that it's not the case.
What about "toxic" women? I have female gamer friends who say nigger on text chat just as much as the next guy on rainbow 6 but yeah only men can behave in a way percieved as "toxic" by someone at Polygon, to whom saying "hello" is interpreted as secret misogynistic code for "kill all women and minorities"
women are pure and can do nothing wrong.
they're just under the influence of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy
Internalized misogyny
None on me because I wasn't alerted yesterday and I'm at work now. However it is a well documented phenomena that while boys may occasionally harrass, girl/women groups tend to socialize into highly toxic pecking orders fairly quickly. The only exception is Frat groups, but you have the accompanying Sororities.
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