He can’t help himself. Quite pathetic actually.
Seriously? Without even a shred of irony? C’mon, man.
I think whenever I stop getting called a faggot nigger spic online is when white people will probably start not being dicks to girls on xbox. I think if you guys hold your collective breathes long enough this will eventually come to fruition.
And by dicks I mean stop trying to hit on them online and bend over backwards to help them out because that is mostly what I see when I am on there lol. But I am sure that kind of simping behavior is in the minority and women only usually get hit with a wave of bitches and cunts as soon as the game loads up cause the industry is inherently sexist.
Women are NOT treated with the same level of respect on this site. Sexist comments towards women are more accepted and encouraged. And I believe that anyone with even a hint of objective thought can see that. The reason I ‘inject my gender’ into conversations is because I’m one of the few people that actually call out the hypocrisy in the sexist comments I come across. Which of course is going to make me stand out, and that’s all it takes for the trolls.
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: It’s my right and freedom of choice if I want to shake my tits for tips. If I wanted to make a porn video with my girlfriend I can do that too. My sexuality, my choice. The fact you even think this is somehow in opposition to wanting gender equality boggles my mind and makes me wonder if you’re really so ignorant or just a troll trying to make a scene for likes.
As far as fighting games go…I fucking love fighting games. I’ve been playing Street Fighter since I had to stand on my tippy toes to reach the arcade cabinet. I remember when I was little watching Chun li bounce off the wall and headstomp Zangief and thinking that was the coolest thing ever. I’ve never lived in a big city so I’ve never had the opportunity to experience a big arcade scene, but I’ve played the genre for a long time. On my PSX I played Darkstalkers and Rival Schools. I bought a Dreamcast because I loved Soul Calibur and played the crap out of MvC2, Project Justice, and Capcom vs. SNK 2. I enjoy SF4 and UMVC3 and I watch tournies all the damn time. I’m a huge fan of Morrigan and actually appreciate ChrisG zoning the shit out of people. I’ve asked for days off at my job just so I can watch all of EVO and just picked up Injustice.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is…fuck you and your judgmental shit. Not like your ass says shit about games. All you do is spout off non-sequitur comments laced with ad hominems. It shouldn’t matter why I’m here, and I definitely shouldn’t have to justify shit to you.
You had made a joke before in the lounge concerning my father molesting me. And I had asked you not to go there, as that is a sensitive subject for me. I would think any decent person would respect that. Is this how low you’re willing to go to try and rile me up? No offense, but that’s a pretty pathetic and disrespectful thing to say to anyone.
Does it really matter who has had it worse? What does that have to do with anything?
Another comparison statement attempting to alienate others and built on assumptions. You sure do you like to assume a lot about other people. And it’s an amazing coincidence that whenever you do this, you just happen to see yourself as being in the ‘better’ position.
Thank you for posting this. I feel like this a lot.
Better be careful. Comparing racial and sexual discrimination might offend certain individuals.
This topic is starting to get interesting.
Ewww, No one knew your pappy diddled you kid, because I didn’t dig into it anymore than that. At least I don’t remember. I just thought you got your ass beat like I did. Um…You might want to keep that shit between you and your therapist.
Now I remember why I don’t visit this shithole. The stink of socially stunted nerds drives anyone sane away.
This is an easy question. The FGC used to be the last bastion of manliness in the gaming community. We talked shit, went hard in the paint and did it all on the ultimate combination of lumberjacking, mining, drinking guiness while punching somebody in a bar fight that a peripheral could be: the MAS Stick. Now that we have entered this new era of “Street Fighter 4,” “Comeback Mechanics,” “X-Factor,” and "Mo-E (not fucking Moe the bartender but “Mo…Eh”), we brought this sissy japanese sticks that little girls can use to play games. This has allowed women to think they are on even keel with men. Suddenly these skirted wretches think they can throw fireballs instead of getting catching balls, Tri-dash instead of getting rushed down and bring their emotional footsies into a place with empirically tested footsies.
Men of Shoryken, reclaim your rightful place in the gaming world. Denounce the limp wristed, tsundure moe bullshit that are these Kawaii sticks. Stop shaving your balls, regain your spot in the world and bring fighting back to the dirtyness that is playing on the floor? What are women gonna do, ruin their skirts because their ass hit the floor? They got no problem doing it in strip clubs or while doing yoga; they should comply with the true grit which sitting down on the floor brings.
Denounce the Scourge of Skirt, Punch people who say Kawaii Desu Ne and dress up like anime characters, Bring back the might American industrial power to the forefront…
Reclaim your Manhood.
Get a MAS stick.
Anywayz double post time. No this site,like most of the internet is not inherently sexist, in fact like I said earlier all one had to do was look like a girl to garner special attention from a bunch young men who mostly didn’t have a lot of experience dealing with women. Because of things like glove girl you have a lot of jade people that see anyone claiming to be a girl as some kind of scam.
Of course you still have a lot of new guys that dont even post in gd and still treat anything,resembling a female like sliced bread(momo,jap tranny). The only reason dumbass recieved the kind of welcome she got is because no one believed or cared the she was a girl and because she came off as an asshole. No one cares about your life story or that you want to wear your child abuse as a badge of honor, we just care about how you act in the here and now.
Ask Qrazy or Nessa if they feel all this hostility like you do.
While some of Matriarch’s comments delve into bordering on the “too much information” pile, and I’m not going to touch the blaring irony on a situation of things (not the said situation she described, as that is a very unfortunate thing to happen to people). However, with that being said, from my personal experience, the majority of “girls” I’ve encountered over the internet have wound up just being overly insecure gay men. Obviously, there are indeed females that use the internet, and I’ve encountered and know some actual female gamers/have run into actual girls on boards like this/etc, but considering way back in the day the old adage was something like “Welcome to the internet. Where the men are men, and the women are men”, I’d be lying if I said I blamed people for being skeptical.
Why don’t all minorities just accept their lot as objects to the white masculist subject? Don’t they realize that their identities–hell, their very existences–are based purely on their figuration in the terms of the masculine gaze? Sexism, racism? Whatever. Victimless crimes.
Why is almost everyone in this thread so invested in perpetuating artificial systems of inequality? You guys are a bunch of morons, and none of you have any idea what feminism means.
Who are all these new niggas? Is this thread some kind of portal between GD and FGD? If so, please close it now before the stupid starts spreading.
I just want to play games and talk shit intelligently without someone crying or becoming offended. If you folks are getting all bent out of shape because of some prepubescent moron screaming obscenities over Xbox Live, then I’d hate to see how you’d handle competitive sports or the military.
A lot of soft-as-baby-wipes mofos out there.
As an aside, I don’t advocate or condone sexism or misogyny, but there are far more important avenues for fighting for ‘womens’ rights’ than fucking videogames. Stop letting people like Anita Sarkeesian and the limp wristed betas at Kotaku do all your thinking for you… it’s not a good look.
I just googled it: Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
So there!
Remember what Specs said earlier about the folly of citing the worst of the situations and people in order to describe the phenomenon as a whole? Hopefully everyone does, because it’s important.
And your understanding of privilege is wrong, because it assumes that it either applies overtly, for every person, for every case, or it doesn’t apply at all.
On balance, both in the past and today, men are far more likely to have certain implicit social rights that give us a greater advantage in our daily work and lives. For example, a right to assume that our life experiences are universal, a right to be presumed competent and to be viewed as a peer, a right to have our intentions taken at face value, and a right not to be harassed in the damn street.
Citing examples of men who have had their own troubles in this arena does not invalidate the concept, for the same reason that marking a trend in any cloud of information does not require that every dot sit precisely on the line of best fit.
Except that for men, this phenomenon is almost exclusively restricted to the online gaming experience, so much so that they can virtually guarantee that the treatment will not carry over into other aspects of their lives. For women, not so much.
Go down to your local city hall, college, sports complex, state capitol, corporate offices, etc. There’s probably a room there with a wall full of pictures of people in the organization, both past and present. Spoiler warning: assuming that the organization is not gender-specific by design, I would say with confidence that most of the faces on those plaques ain’t women.
While it is true that legislation can be and has been used to attempt to address the social issues we face, it is an imperfect method. In the absence of constant monitoring, laws tends to be applied weakly or inconsistently unless their application is advantageous to the existing power structure. That isn’t just a statement directed at legislation related to women–it applies broadly. Look at our gun background check laws, for example. Look at copyright law. Hell, look at traffic ordinances.
Point being, legislation can take steps, but does not erase a history of systemic advantages and disadvantage, especially not a history as young as ours. The disturbing thing is that a lot of defenses of the status quo involve people either pretending that our past was much longer ago than it actually is or that things that happened in the past have no bearing on what’s happening now. Our history’s relevance is not provisional. It can’t be taken away from us or marginalized from our social issues–any of them. Here’s a measure of how much we’ve moved and how quickly: you most likely have relatives alive today who lived in a time when women were not allowed to vote, strictly because they were women. Here, in the land of the free, one of the most fundamental right that equal human beings are supposed to have–and therefore one of the most fundamental measures of social equality altogether–is equal representation in our leadership. A say in the democratic process. A human lifetime ago, women did not have that. That’s how recently it was, and it is naive to suggest that the social and political circumstances in which that situation was able to exist haven’t left a legacy that is still bubbling under the surface of society today.
As for the case of the girl joining the Boy Scouts, good for them. The Scouts is an organization whose ideas of who is or isn’t fit to join can be generously described as a little bit staid. They’ve tended to cling to old ways under the aegis of tradition, as though tradition itself were an absolute good. Perhaps this bodes a new era of self-examination for them.
As for the case of women in an abuse shelter being uncomfortable sharing the space with teenage boys, they probably were. The fact that the women are adults and the teenagers are not does not erase the teenagers’ capacity for posing a physical advantage over women who have already been battered in the first place. The issue here is not that women’s shelters aren’t inclusive to elements that might not be all that different from the elements that women are taking shelter from in the first place. If you want to talk seriously about what should and shouldn’t be addressed, perhaps this is a case where teenage shelter ought to be addressed as an issue too.
Of course they are. Even if there weren’t overt examples in this very thread–which there are–this is one of many issues over which nerds get defensive because they feel their subcommunity has to have exclusive access to something. If you don’t think this happens, both in general and specifically to this issue, I just have to assume you haven’t been around here for very long.
Does it? Or does it say a lot about correlated recent phenomena such as the mainstream-ization of games and the greater access to online gaming?
I’m not sure about that remark about dangerous lines of work, considering that the issue of occupational safety has been ongoing since the Industrial Revolution. Yet another issue that you cannot discuss in relation to today without discussing in relation to its history.
I am seriously considering drafting a new maxim in the vein of Godwin’s Law that applies to people who cite people’s homemade YouTube videos in their arguments.
oh sweet, sup lounge bros
who are all these other dudes
It reminds me of a comic I saw not too long ago, where people went through a checklist of what they wanted:
I want a completely friendly, mature experience without competitive energies ruining my day.
Chess? Nope.
Book club? Nope.
Party? Nope.
Singleplayer games? Nope.
Co-op games? Nope.
Tennis? Nope.
Golf? Nope.
Competitive gaming? Just righ-- woah, hold on a minute, people are heated and talk smack here! That’s not what I was promised! CALL THE POLICE MY FEELINGS ARE BEING HURT AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN PREVENT IT IS BY PRESSING A PLAINLY VISIBLE BUTTON! OH THE HUMAAAAAAAAANITY!
If you don’t want to deal with shit talking or competitive environments, then STAY OUT OF COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS. The rules aren’t going to change to cater for people that can’t stomach insults from an individual they’ll never meet.
I think some of you guys should start clarifying what type of feminists you mean when you berate and insult them. Because as of right now, it feels like feminism as whole is being slammed and treated as irrational and stupid, which is asanine. Granted, that may not be how you think, but the unintended consequence of poor wording and lack of transparency can make you come off as a sheltered low titer misogynist with something against ALL women who desire equality our respect of any kind.
You know how Chris Rock said “black people need to fly” in their endeavors compared to white people in America, when it comes to getting respect?
Well, on SRK, it’s the opposite.
That is eye-opening, I would like to see more studies on this. This particular study seems to imply, younger age first time sex (15), bisexual, higher incidence of drug use.
Goodmourning is winning this topic with his well reasoned arguments and knowledge. Despite these feminism topics exploding with posts on SRK like everytime, very few are serious posts unfortunately.
Maybe so, but at the risk of being incredibly blunt and having my words possibly misread, if Feminism or Masculism, or whatever people use was TRULY about equal rights, equal treatment, equal opportunity, and equality in general, then they wouldn’t be called Feminism or Masculism. They’d be called Egalitarianism, or Equalism.