Aram Zucker-Scharff

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The medium is modern, but the logic is Victorian, and make no mistake, the problem is not what we do and say and build and create.

The problem is that women are doing it. That’s why the naked selfies, the slut-shaming, is not just incidental to the argument – it is the argument. Underneath it all, you’re just a woman, just a body. You can be reduced to flesh. You are less. You are an object. You are other.

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– Why we’re winning: social justice warriors and the new culture war. 

overthinkingvideogames:

In light of the recent controversy in gaming, I’m taking a few days off to recharge, because this has meant that I’ve been doing a lot of reading about mostly unpleasant things.

Instead, please read Kris Ligman’s roundup of the flurry of articles about this topic, as Ligman is doing a great job.

Extending the branch (with tweets) · brett_douville:

I reach out to someone who jumped in to insult someone on Twitter.

“It took me a while to realize that the feminists were asking for action, support and consideration. Anita Sarkeesian wasn’t saying that I was personally to blame, or that because I had played games with objectionable content that I was directly promoting misogyny. She was saying that I was operating within a certain framework, a framework that I should really take a step back from and regard. And then consider what I might do to change that relationship. It was one of her Feminist Frequency videos, about how female characters in games are often reduced to a single class (the tall one, the fat one, the weird one, the girl) and depicted using pink coloration that finally made me understand.”

– The Sorry State Of Gaming’s Truthers And Their #Gamergate.