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Editorial: Why Video Games Are Misogyny By Okali Ackhat Warch 2th. 2015 Even betore Metroid was saved by her boytriend Samus Aran, games have been a pstiarchaí male power fantssy This editorial aims to change thst in one sitting since Iwas a lttle girl, t's been clear to me that video games are Iteraly made msogyny. Do you remember the trst time a man saw you playing a video game? I do. I was just an innocent little girl. playing Pokemon in the park, when a man saw me He slapped the video games out of my hands, in an attempt to prevent me from ever aven thinking about video games ever again. Thanks to feminism, Iwas able to regain the power to think about video games, and eventually play them, but book years to get over the traums Its clear that ideo games may actualy be the objocafication, If nat the very personification of the male gender, we are unsure of how video games are produced- our feminist scienists assume that it has something to do with msogyny-but t would appear that most video games are constructed using controled, lberally-applied "bursts" of hatred of women. These bursts are known in the male world a ejaculaions we feminists know them as mansplairing You think Im joking. Im merely opening your mind. Think about it for a second: the very discipline of computer programming was made by men. The first programming anguage, the first compiler, these were thigs mace by men Logie itself was made by a man, without the input of women. What good is it? Its useless, just ike everything e'se men make. There are people among us rignt now who think logic trumps emotions That ason has more weight than feeings. They speak amongst themselves and never consider the cpinions of their female betters GamerGate is just another example of the patriarchy, rearing its ugly head Can you really tell me with a straight face that video games don't hate women? Think about n when was the last time you played video game that didn't hate women? Never? That's what I thought Just as no one has ever heard of strong ndependent black women like Metroid or Mario, no one has eer heard ar played a video game that did not slap rself out of a woman's delicate, fragle bird-hands shown: Samas ra's girifhiend Metroid Pissbaby gamers would claim that characters from the Mario series are mainstream They would ike to pretend that characters who have only just recently appeared in obscure ndi titles lik "Smash Brothers. are mainstream A5 alvsys, gamers are lars. and guity of harassment of their betters. The question of the day right now is, would people in the mainstream recognize characters from wildly-popular, best-selling. mainstream video games? The answer, of course, is no: they wouldnt. Because video games are not mainstream. ideo games are popular, played by everyone, and a bilion dolar industry, while-a the same time obscure and unheard of by the public. Essentialy, they are art they are garbage. Having said that, can you honessy tell me that any gamer would recognize this cip of the character Bayonet from the game "Bayonetta From every pixel, from every polygon, from every line of code, every color on Mario's face in the cip above, you can tell that programming languages have only ever boon constructed in order to confound human beings. By human beings, I mean women, bocause men are not human:thay are inhuman monsters Misogyny has been around for as long as video games. This is not a coincidance: video games cause misogyny and misogyny causes video games. Knowing that, how should we fight this misogyny? First of al we should do away with all programming languages. Having been touchec by the hands of men, crafted solally by mascuine rapefingers, we must recogrize that they are frut of the posonous tree Ater the abolition of al programming languages, we must do away with all knowiedge of scienceThat's tainted, too when's the last time you heard of a female scientist? Never, that's when Because nono have ever existed due to the patnarchy. Only when we know not math nor logic can we truly understand the true nature of the but instead ool whether or right answer, Will we succeed asa species. As we actually may need computers in the future, if only so we can use Tumbir, I propose we, womynkind, invent a programming anguage that operates only on feelings We are amazing. We've been right this entire time. Thus, it shouldnt be hard to come up with a computational system from scratch that doesn't use logic. Even though we now know what must be done to preserve the human race, as video games seek to trigger us into submission, we must ask: Why do video games hate women so much? Why can't they embrace a non-binary lifestyle? Why can't Mario and Luigi dress up like giris and kiss? The answer is simple: the patriarchy Shigeru Miyamoto Saw a picture of Mario and Luigi kissing one another online. Please do not do that 13.230 12.560 SEA SPM-24 Apr 2014 sown: a fake Tiwitner acecoant made by gars This particular Twitter account a fake, through and through- was made by a gamer by order of the patriarchy, in an attempt to dissuade LGBTOA+ people from engaging n their fantasies. Video games, like any other work of art, are the property of the people viewing ,to do with what they will without abridgement or censership. Unless, of course, its offensive. In whi㎝ case it must always be censored, to once again protect anyone whe might accidentally view t. Anyway, my point is, this fake Twimer account is just another example ef how video games are misogyny that tweet is a blatant attempt to kink-shame peaple who are into brothers kissing shown: Mario and Lsigt kissing The fact that people are so uncomfortable with two brothers kissing each other is just more proof of how intolerant gamers are Mdeo games are made of misogyny And no matter how much GamerGate defames harasses, or misgenders their betters, we video game journalists will always be better Because we just are. F--- video games. F--- ethics. Who cares about this s---? It's video game jounalsm nerds. That means we can do whatover we want. We don't have to do our jobs. F--- you About the Author Okah Acknst is a gende They lve wim their len heacmsres in San Fracisc They have not

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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