Allen is not the first person to be censored in recent past. Yes, he has resources. Everyone doesn’t have those same resources. What about the writer of ‘I Identify As An Attack Helicopter’, a story that was recently taken off a popular SFF site due to mob justice and famous writers’ tweets, despite the fact these…

And there are no LQBT+ characters in their movies, so basically all Coen Bros movies are shit. As are many other movies, well, nearly all movies. And if black or LGBT+ characters appear they are portrayed wrongly or by a “white man”, so, that inherently wrong. too. So why are you watching movies anyway? And no,…

truly the most authentic thoughts are “Dotard blumpf is not my president, he is hitler, believe women”

Admittedly, some of those examples don’t look so innocent. It’s hard for me to imagine a kitchen joke not being loaded - either by its author’s own sexism, or by an attempt to parody a red piller’s mindset.

Boob jokes though - really? Those upset you? It’s not impossible to find boobs attractive and still be aware that…

I don’t even know if I need to leave a comment anymore because this just said it all.

Looks like you really struck a chord if the whole staff has to show up to bolster this preposterous article. Good work. It won’t help, but good work.

I feel they’ve been having a bad last couple of months, the behind the scenes things at Gawker media are probably taking a toll, but weekend updates have been sparese and just games coverage in general for awhile now. There was barely anything about some of the cooler things at Gamescom and most of the coverage was…

Seems like a real stretch, sorry. There is an inherent problem in being offended by internet general shitheadery, and it’s to think it is about something specific. I don’t think if it is. The same people messaging “gorgeous view” are messaging “try thrust, but hole” in front of a non-gendered corpse bent over a…

You are looking way too far into what is obviously a bunch of immature jokes, not a concentrated sexist attack on women.

It not that everyone that upvotes the ‘creative’ abeit sexist multiplayer messages on the floor intends to hurt or belittle women. I genuinely thought a few were a creative misuse of a messaging feature.

Look, sexism isn’t okay

How do these people survive?

“Go outside. Lighten up. Do literally anything else with your life.”

“It got worse. Perhaps it didn’t help that the post-Demon’s Souls titles’ promotional material and press coverage emphasized the trial and error design. The subtitle for Dark Souls’ PC release was Prepare to Die Edition. A cover of Edge magazine read, “How the creators of Demon’s Souls are making the most hardcore…

This brand of pretentious, navel-gazing “thinkpieces” are the inevitable result of someone getting liberal arts degree that has no practical career use. All that accumulated jargon needs an outlet of some kind, and when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

No mention of the obligatory “amazing chest ahead” for gwynevere?

Agreed, these articles are pushing me away from Kotaku, same reason I stopped using Polygon.

Rather, we should observe that this seems to be a perfect storm of subservient female characters, a portion of an audience eager to reinforce this subservience, and a mechanic which gives them the ability to do so (with a degree of crudity perhaps befitting the messages’ content).

Agree 100%. People are literally looking for things to offend them at this point. It’s much less insidious than this article makes it out to be. Who sees the messages in soulsborne and thinks about it for more than .01 seconds?