You’re talking about “your perspective” on what bro-gamers probably think, about what feminists think. You promote “non-extremism” without explaining what exactly it is. Talk about having perspective!Īnd then today, came your secondary opinion piece on this issue, in which you start talking about some nebulous MRAs and SJWs who might or might not be caricatures and they’re really surely just as bad as each other. As a result, in the midst of one of the most massive and brutal campaigns of harassment against a woman and feminist allies, the best you could find to talk about was corruption in games journalism and an alleged DMCA violation. Reading your original foray into these issues, it was obvious you were caught proudly unaware, but rather than do due diligence and explore what is the issue, you had your followers feed you the info they felt you needed to know, and then you wrote about that. In fact that seems to be a chronic problem with your approach to sensitive issues that have been affecting the industry you’re part of. So let’s talk about two-player games.īy far the biggest issue I have with your blogpost is how little research you did before you wrote it. They lie in intellectual laziness and the arrogance by which you wield it.
Because you see, while your blog has some issues with gross false equivalence and many aspects of tone policing, the biggest flaws in it lie elsewhere. Only I’m not going to talk about Tone Arguments. Even though I’m not the most knowledgeable on the subject and in fact I feel woefully inadequate to fully express the issues as those actually oppressed. So I’m going to use this opportunity and attempt to do exactly that. Eventually you declared that you would only engage me further if I discussed your blogpost itself in a length counter-argument, which given your status as an internet celebrity and mine as a virtual nobody, was intimidating to say the least. Once I provided one of your followers an accessible link to explaining what Tone Policing is from the geek feminism wiki, you decided to directly challenge me to provide “academic evidence” that Tone Arguments are actually a thing.
This was all in response to your lengthy blogpost on the recent brouhaha in the gaming sphere, first started with the Zoe Quinn “scandal” ands latter inflamed by Anita Sarkeesian daring to post another Tropes VS Women in Gaming video. Dear Totalbiscuit, we just had a small chat in twitter when I took exception to your claim that Tone Policing is “made up”.
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