“Ignore the bullies” isn’t a tactic that actually works, especially on the internet where being ignored just makes bullies mad and more liable to step up harassment of you, try to dox or even swat you.

“Can anyone reasonable doubt that a woman could kick a man’s ass at a video game?”

Being the first woman streamer to do a perfect DS III run IS the amazing thing she did. And her gender is absolutely a factor when she had to deal with sexist twits telling her how to play the game. That’s something male streamers attempting the same feat haven’t had to deal with.

Women can absolutely do what men can do in most any scenario...

In a perfect world maybe it wouldn’t be significant, but remember the shit Geguri went through when she first came on to the scene. Some people were so unwilling to believe that a woman could play so well that they accused her of cheating. The community needs examples of female accomplishment to counter years of bias…

From where you’re starting from, with the assumption that women and men are equally mentally and dextrously capable, your comment makes sense. You aren’t surprised because, if someone had explained this attempt to you, it would have felt plausible already.

How are young women introduced to high level gaming, and encouraged to continue? The fandom is full of misogyny, there will be tons of people outright telling them they aren’t as good as their male counterparts, not to mention the harassment. The next extraordinary speed runner or Street Fighter player or DOTA player…

Yeah but that kinda undercuts the very reason she did this in the first place. She did it specifically to shut up those idiot kids and misogynists. So if the article ignored that reason then it’s not helping address the problem because it’s not recognizing that there IS a problem.

Yeah, if he’d introduced himself to her like they hadn’t met before, that would have been, at worst, a little embarassing. I do that all the time to people I’ve met once before at an industry event or something. It’s the whole calling her out on twitter for, I guess, not being famous enough for him to recognize,…

I think the thing people are taking issue with is being a famous person with thousands of followers, and being like, “Who’s this asshole, am I right America?” about someone who is clearly less famous than you are, and in a public forum where that person could read it. I just found it sort of tacky.

using his kid makes it extra slimy- like he’s the innocent loving father who laughs with his kid at the ridiculous comedy woman. so gross.

Here’s looking at you NPH

Yes, this exactly. I don’t see these “cracks”. Especially with this quote from Mr. Rogers about Clemmons, “Many of the wrong people will get the worst idea, and we don’t want them thinking and talking about you like that.” i.e., many folks would call Clemmons a pedophile just because he was gay. It really seems like…

Agreed. Par for the course at that time would have been to fire him. If Rogers were truly homophobic, he would have and no one would have batted an eye.

Why would they? Where would that information come from in the first place?

Holy Christmas, Rich. It was the 1960s. And you want to throw Mr. Rogers under the bus for speaking true about the realities of the time? For acknowledging that an openly gay Black man would not fly on a children’s program?

GTFO.

Honestly if this is the worst we ever unearth about Mr Rogers I’ll take it

But still, it illustrates the finite nature of Mr. Rogers’s ideals. “I like you just the way you are,” he often said, but in the case of Clemmons there was a caveat: “...I just need you to show less of the way you are.” This information through the lens of contemporary culture, in which an employer legislating what…

I think we have a problem today where we too often take the lens of our current sensibilities and cultural landscape and then look back on the past, judging it from our perspective alone.

1) So, I am relieved to hear this, because I expected Kat Von D to do something much worse, like be an active white supremacist or say undocumented immigrants are criminals or something.