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Hey I just wanted to say that I genuinely did like your Body Positivity Post; but I also have a question about it. Why is the 4chan gamer gate mascot girl included in the line-up of "left out" girls? Isn't she a made-up girl by a bunch of gamer gate guys who use her as a mouth piece to talk over actual girls in the gaming community? I can't imagine why she would be thrown into an otherwise insightful piece of art. mizuki-takashima She's there to challenge our habit of dehumanizing people we don't like, agree with, or are considered in an "out group." It's a deeply held belief of mine when we start seeing anyone, even our enemies, as subhuman we risk hurting people we didn't intend; like kind and insightful folks who may not see the same side of that out-group as others do. Also, I often see people who rail against body shaming turn around and use its insidious tactics on those they don't like, and to me that undermines body positivity as a whole And to my understanding, Vivian means a lot of things to a lot of people, good and bad, and that's what I wanted this piece to do. Just about every possible interpretation of it is correct 'cuz it's deliberately meant to reflect what you bring into it. I know that's sounds a little pretentious, but it seems the most succinct way to put the whirling mess of ideas bouncing around my head into words. XD Thanks for the interest and the thoughtful note EDIT-Also, her being bad with make-up was for the other 99.9% of the population who doesn't know or care about what we do in our corner of the internet

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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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