I’ll confess - I cried when I saw the first Supergirl trailer, before the show premiered. It looked like the show I’d been waiting for - for years, since Wonder Woman went off the air (yes, I’m THAT old!)

*creates paradigm in which constructive dialogue is impossible*

First, and foremost, fuck your tone policing bullshit. You don’t get to diminish the experience of a victimized minority group and respond to them poorly and then demand everyone treats you well. That’s entitled white male bullshit to think that treating others poorly while demanding only polite and wonderful…

So my use of the four words “these scared white men” — which don’t even imply “all” men, which are not a generalization because they state exactly who the problem is, which reflect my actual and lived experience — have caused you to try to lecture ME on “a more thoughtful approach”??

Do yourself a favor and go back and read Booktart’s original comment. You say that you are discouraged by her generalizations, and yet her entire comment is about the specific men she’s been dealing with for over a decade.

When your neighbors house is on fire, you don’t stand there and tell them they should have installed a sprinkler system.

booktart specifically said “these white men.”

“I have a hard time believing a modern software company “dismissing feedback based on gender.”

#notallmen

If you’re trying to “take steps to change behaviors,” maybe you should focus your energy on calling out these shitty white men that you don’t agree with, instead of focusing your energy on criticizing someone who is sharing their story of encountering hardships.

Babymen gonna babyman.

Why? So you can attack them?

That doesn’t even make sense. If you go on record in an article slamming your employer, whether you’re right or wrong, other employers won’t want to hire you. This is especially true in the very small and insular games industry. It makes perfect sense that someone speaking up about the sexism at Riot wouldn’t want to…

i.e. “women, please destroy your careers or else I won’t believe that anything is wrong, because I don’t want to believe it.”

Excellent. Do Blizzard next

TL;DR: Riot is a shitty sexist company 

I was just primary GM for three RPG sessions at Gen Con, and secondary for a fourth. And there are players who don’t want to listen to me because I’m a woman, who turn to my second instead. Or who balk at playing female or POC PCs. It’s exhausting. My group has been doing this for 12 years, so we’ve been around long…

Holy shit.

Riot has promised to fix these issues Soon™