Alia Shawkat, a younger actor with less clout than Bateman was able to speak the truth in that same room when she said that behavior wasn’t acceptable.*
I really want to hear more about Alia Shawkat on this. She’s in the Transparent cast. She’s in the Arrested Development cast. She’s a queer woman. She has a unique POV on the situation. I wish the interviewer had called that out and asked. I hope we do get to hear from her about it at some point.
So even ignoring the part where you’re gross and racist, what lawful command was issued in this instance? That white lady isn’t a cop! Do you think that white people just get to order black people around or something? You do, don’t you?
What they did is they were cooking out next to a lake. Lakes are, famously, made out of water. Water, also famously, puts out fire. Not a huge fire hazard to grill next to a lake, which must be why folks have been grilling next to Lake Merritt for decades without incident.
The ghost of Rosa Parks politely asks you to shut the fuck up.
This has always been a problem with video games. Not just competitive video games — all of them.
Make all Twitch chats for major tournaments/events subscriber-only and have a slice of the revenue go to supporting the event organizers and competitors, IMO.
How do you figure? If someone calls me a “faggot,” is that ‘weirdly more appropriate’ and not hateful or derogatory because I am, in fact, gay?
I’ve always felt that if the full story about the Karolyis gets out, it will be ugly.
Uh, these responses are bizarre. It was intended as an INSULT. How does the fact that it might somehow accurately reflect the target’s sexual behavior make it OK? It’s saying “you’d like to go and do this, and referencing that fact is insulting to you.”
Not all gay people like giving fellatio, just like many straight dudes don’t like giving cunnilingus. More importantly, using someone’s race/sexuality/gender/etc as a weapon when you are reaching for an insult is rude. That’s the issue here. He clearly wasn’t trying to actually encourage him to go get laid - he was…
Spot on. Know your audience, as the saying goes.
I’m a fighting game player. I’ve played with the same group for over a decade. We drink and smoke when we play. If I had to classify the setting, I’d go with “’hood as fuck”. And I don’t mean “bunch of straight white kids who think dropping the n-bomb is fun”. The…
It’s problematic because the implication that “you’d like sucking a fat cock” is negative was clear in the nature of the insult.
I mean, I’m a straight dude, and I wouldn’t be terribly insulted by someone telling me to “go suck a fat cock,” because that’s not something I do in my daily life, and can therefore brush…
The thing about competitive trash-talk is that it comes in “levels.” Those levels are divided into what’s appropriate amongst friends who know each other well enough to be able to accept a barb without taking offense, mixed groups of friends and acquaintances where more care is warranted, groups of strangers where…
Don’t click on it then, Jesus Christ. This shit is important, so important. You are under no obligation to read articles that you clearly have little interest in. I have friends that work in the industry, I give a crap about their well-being, I find this stuff eye opening and interesting.
I for one want to know these things so I can stop supporting companies that defend awful people.
“You want to talk about homophobia? I work with Ellen Page, who fights for LGBT rights. You want to talk about racism? I work with Jesse Williams, who fights for civil rights in the USA... Judge me by my work.”
Cage is also accused of a lack of consideration for female colleagues, and of making insistent dirty jokes, smutty remarks in the presence of his wife, and inappropriate remarks about actresses in his games.
Who could have predicted that the guy who spent a year hunting down photos of Ellen Page as a child and put a nude model of her in his game without her knowledge or consent would be a sexual harasser?