The thing is, many trans writers have agreed to be interviewed by or answer questions via email for Jesse Singal over the past few years, and he either ends up not using a word they say, or willfully misrepresenting them. He’s wasted the time of numerous writers who thoughtfully respond to his questions at length.…

Tone policing a trans person’s article about transphobia. Nice.

Oh fuck you. This is a positive contribution to the trans community. Singal is a bigot and a sloppy one at that. His work doesn’t deserve respect.

You may have missed the point—there’s nothing they can say. The only question worth asking is, “Seriously, what the fuck is your deal here, asshole?” and yeah, they might not respond to that, but if you phrase the question any more politely, that will just allow them to tap-dance around it rather than answer it. There…

Jesse is aggressively disingenuous when writing about trans issues - it’s his whole fucking deal. It’s deeply naive to think that he would have responded in good faith if only she’d been more polite, just as it is to think that “being the bigger person” here has anything to do with decorum.

I’m not sure why you’re framing outrage as an inappropriate reaction. In another medical condition — if an Atlantic cover story advocated denying teenage girls with dysmenorrhea access to the pill because of some kind of naturalist fallacy and chemophobia about “hormones,” — we’d all be pretty fucking outraged.

Because there is literally nothing more important in this article than the tender feelings of a transphobe and his enablers. Decorum must be preserved!

Do you know what Jesse Singal’s fucking deal is?

yea Harron, you’re the problem! being a meanie in an email counteracts the other 90% of the article :PPPPPPPPPPP

Yes, because they need to answer as to what his fucking deal is that he keeps writing the same terrible article and it keeps getting published.

Ya how come these ‘self sacrificing’ free speech assholes aren’t ever advocating phrases like ‘kill whitey’ and ‘matriarchy is the best’ be inserted into games. It’s only ever nazi shit they’re willing to go to bat for.

Well then I guess you are! You shouldn’t be adding tasteless jokes in localization. I see re-contextualizing tasteless jokes present in the original text, but inventing a racist joke for your nasty weeb ass to snort at. Honestly fys.

Your position might make sense were the issue to be in the original text. But it isn’t, you are upset they didn’t like your joke. Part of translation, if your intention is absolute accuracy, is to represent the original content as accurately as possible in the new language. In this case an accurate translation would…

Also, in the thread you link I think it’s hilarious how a group called Censored Gaming jumps in with leading questions to basically make you sock-puppet their opinions.

I guess the idea is, I believe it would be funny to the game’s target audience, those being Japanophiles. Because it really is very “Japan.”

It’s not about whether or not he threw a “tantrum”. The emotionality to his arguments isn’t the issue here. It’s the fact that he’s crying censorship over a tasteless joke that he concocted on his own, which did not originate with the Japanese material, at least not in intent. Whether he’s calm or outraged about it…

You kind of have a shit sense of humor. Not only are you changing the original meaning and intention for a stupid joke, but you’re making a big deal about it as if you’re the righteous one, fuck off.

Having read it, you’re still as much of an idiot as you were before.

I don’t like using the word idiot for anyone who tries to sit down and talk level-headedly about their choices. But you absolutely, definitely made the wrong call here. And I certainly hope no one follows in such hasty, thoughtless footsteps.

If the acronym KKK makes you chuckle, then you my friend have a problem. You KNOW what it means, and KNOW how people feel about that, so you think of US (your consumers); As foolhardy jerks who find humor in racism... We aren’t you, and I concur with your name not being in the credits. Cya homeslice.