Except the community is explicitly not inclusive and friendly when it comes to women, that’s where this whole thing started.
I think its appropriate to draw the line at harassment. Racy language and excitement aren't that terribly big a deal, a fair amount of our entertainment is based on that.
It becomes an issue when you're specifically singling out and harassing people, especially for something like gender.
A serious response here, because some people need to realize that Aris was right on the money when he implied that forcing change is just glossing over the surface.
Girls fighting for acceptance in a male dominated field is nothing new, I drive trucks and the women I work with cop tons of shit. They are man enough to take it and dish it out harder and probably get more respect than most of the blokes for it, I wouldn’t hesitate to give them a hand and not because they’re female, because I respect them even though I say some sick jokes from time to time.
I think a couple of people may lack perspective of what the world is like when you get out of school, away from feminist diatribe into the real world, with real issues. As believe it or not, no matter how slick of a tongue you have, some people don’t understand and don’t give a shit if you try to reason with them, you can’t get a pig to fly, even if you put it in the cockpit of an airplane. Even if you flew it, it’s not changing the fact that it’s a pig and it wont fly on it’s own.
Right or wrong, didn’t Kennedy say something about making peaceful revolution impossible making violent resolution inevitable. That goes both ways, the fighting games community needs to accept times are changing, but at the same time, you can’t force people to be some clean cut image of social morals, as the harder you try, the louder they’re going to tell you to fuck off.
So we must make a decision. And no dont gimme that crap cliche “We can have both but just maintain basic human decency” cuz if I recall, as time progresses “basic human decency” likes to become more complex while calling itself basic. So we must choose…
Do we want the the raw, relatively rough, uninhibited FGC with the high potential of being offensive to the “outside world”?
Or do we want it to grow into something big, with more people, more money and overall more resources invested into it, at the cost of the former liberties many of us hold soo dear?
On look so random person shows bad sportmanship
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We make bias articles, and pretend that the entire community is considered to be a bunch of nerd that can’t show good sportmanship?
And with the misogyny in mind… there are girls in the scene, who may not even be playing at a high level and they’re accepted. I wonder why. If they feel threatened, they can speak up, especially on stream. Now that this is more public, one would be led to believe that stuff is to be taken more seriously because you don’t want to be recorded for being blown up as a sexual harraser. The individuals who just take it… just like the high school bully… well, there is a way to do things and a way to avoid them - the latter isn’t the way to approach things and will continue giving the bully a sense of ‘cool i can keep doing this for fun’.
Why can’t we just go play games? We don’t need the mainstreams approval to gather and play games, lets go back to what we are all. A group who have a large passion for FG’s.
The difference is that IdrA’s rage and poor sportsmanship is more or less an isolated incident. He’s the only one who does that kind of thing constantly. The issue of misogyny and bigotry is very relevant in the FGC, because everyone here does it. Now we’re being put on blast because of it, and deservedly so.
reads that stuff Keits is such a ludicrous suckup weasel, its kind of disgusting. He’s just gotta make it absolutely clear that he’s on the bosses side.
Edit: And that’s kind of what makes me (hypocritically) want to forgive marn. He was an idiot with this current thing, but he doesn’t feel any need to suck peoples cocks either.
I kind of understand banning Marn seeing that it’s…you know, fucking Marn. But ETR / Christian? I think that’s just not fair. He’s an up-and-coming commentator and shows promise. Why not just let him off with a warning?
Real talk, that’s the only part of this whole situation that I’m really upset about. Well, that and the fact the SRK Illuminati is caring all of a sudden
hahahhahaha the thing is i watched the whole stream im 31 and self employed…luckly. The problem is i dont believe most of the chats are filled with anyone over 21…its seems more like the 16 year old dick heads that cutt school,<I was that type> its usually really crude and i love crude, but also really bad with no style trolling and the way the whole chats repeat the same quotes over and over… like once the jago ross thing blew all you saw was staged staged staged staged staged…saw some dude ask if he could suck haunts dick for no reason, or spooky you can fuck my bitch quotes, outta no where its gotta be teens,is it really college kids ,is it the new 20 Something college kids that make up these troll monsters? if the dude from twitch is so worried why does he not just disable the streams CHAT or not live so it can be edited and put together
I’ve had the misfortune to interact personally with keits several times. He’s just a massive tool, and he looooooves being important in the community. We need more players and fewer suckerfish like him.