Though I’ve been harshly responding to a lot of genuinely hateful Gamergate-y comments — yeah, this is legitimate and should probably be addressed.

Media critique is not fucking harassment.

Playboy magazine is a better champion of feminism than insular video-game communities, and has been for a very long time.

Which, you know, isn’t stellar.

You think she deserves harassment because her media critiques didn’t meet your research standard?

You realize how screwed up it would be if you were commenting on a non-white person speaking out about their representation in media and calling it “picking a fight” to dismiss the resulting harassment, right?

What fight did she pick, other than writing on trends in portrayals of women in video-games, and then…

I get the knee-jerk reaction, because it’s not my thing either, but if you’re able to make a living entertaining people by playing video-games, then you know — good on you. Enough people attempt it so that, actually being successful at it, you must be bringing something to the table as a personality. People have made…

While I think both the handle and level names are dumb, the situation shouldn’t be that they’re deleted without comment. It should be that they’re flagged, changed, whatever—or even just an explanation provided so that it doesn’t happen again. He was told he didn’t even have flags on his account. It’s just a terrible,…

In addition to all the other replies here, even remaking a large amount of super-hard levels from scratch (let alone beating them again to re-upload) would be enormously time-consuming, as they usually involve pixel-perfect jumps and enemy placement and timing that would be very difficult to re-create just by…

“Let’s See How Long It Takes Senran Kagura To Make You Uncomfortable”

This is awful. This is a woman indoctrinated by an irresponsible system into taking irresponsible, fetishized, inflammatory stances toward dangerous weapons, and it’s come back to bite her, but the views she adopted and parroted before this event didn’t begin with her.

I hope she recovers and is able to re-evaluate her…

If you ask the internet for $100k, then put out a bad product, then what do you expect?

“If we tell this guy, that he has fallen prey to a vicious predator, then he will form his own enemy stereotype and become an insensitive prick, because he is afraid of ever being hurt again.”

That’s not true at all. First of all, the abuser isn’t necessarily a “vicious predator,” and there’s no reason recognizing…

Part of the way you grow out of a situation like this is to allow others to help you realize you’re being/have been emotionally abused. That requires patience, not dickishness. Nothing this guy has written indicates he’s beyond help, just that he’s still in the midst of (and likely starting to become aware of, which…

Yep. It’s emotional abuse. It’s very possible she’s been in genuinely emotionally abusive situations herself, but she’s turning that behavior right around onto the letter-writer.

And yes, it’s very hard to realize you’ve fallen into that situation.

Re: The “C” situation. Holy shit. I lived this. From the “she had just broken up with someone she described as emotionally abusive” to feeling I was in love with the person alarmingly quickly. Except as soon as the ex came back in, instead of continuing to give things a go, we had a weird, on-and-off emotionally…

That’s a stretch. The racists discussed in this article consist almost solely, if not entirely, of white people.

I would argue that, as far as America is concerned, white racism is also the only kind that matters on a broader level, because it’s the only kind enforced by social systems, but that’s sort of another…

If it feels shitty to be grouped into a racial monolith and makes you want to stand up for your personal opinion—awesome; that is exactly what she’s signing about.

These racists—ones up in arms over a Beyonce Super Bowl performance—are almost universally white. Even the “almost” is probably an unnecessary caveat.

They’re obviously just being cheeky about it; the fact, of course, is that *racists* cannot handle Beyonce’s performance, but since they’re almost universally white, entrenched in a white establishment, and unlikely to identify themselves as the kind of loud bigots white culture expects that term to be attached to,…

Yeah, fuck that guy who obtained success as an entertainer and now vocally indulges in harmless things that make him happy while being kind and self-effacing to his daughter!