Tag: Video Games

“Yes, developers and journalists like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian speak loudly about feminism and…”

“”Yes, developers and journalists like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian speak loudly about feminism and equality, but it’s not to attack self-involved lunatics like Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini. It’s because they actually stand for something – for people to behave like decent human beings and treat each other with respect – as opposed to rallying against viewpoints that aren’t compatible with Middle Ages-era opinions about gender and equality.””

– Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism: A Guide To Assholes.

Once again, I will not negotiate with terrorists.

Once again, I will not negotiate with terrorists.:

ohdeargodbees:

Ok, let’s try this again.

This has nothing to do with games and is not a matter of legitimate public interest, but is simply a personal matter. I would hope and request that the games press be respectful of what IS a personal matter, and not news, and not about games. This is explicitly about…

The crap that is being sent to Zoe Quinn is complete and utter bullshit. The internet’s reaction to these allegations being leveled at her (by which I mean Reddit, 4chan and related) is terrifying. Even if every allegation about her was true (which I very much doubt) the scale and vehemence of her detractors are totally out of proportion to the issue at hand. 

The way the allegations are being perpetuated and the accompanying personal attacks on her are completely unethical and vile. Any possible actual ethical question is completely negated by the methodology of the accusers. 

I 100% support Zoe Quinn in this. Even if, let’s say, everything her accusers say is true, 0 of the fault would lie with her. The journalists involved have certain ethical responsibilities that are part of their professions, those ethical responsibilities are theirs, ones they receive upon taking up their particular professional mantles. Ones that should be checked and supported by their editors and bosses. They aren’t applied to the subject of a journalistic report or beat. The ethics are theirs to uphold, not Ms. Quinn’s. If there was an ethical breach (and I am going to assume that there was not, because that is the fair way to consider it) then the fault and blame lies with the folks who have a professional responsibility to ethical reporting, not with the subject of any such reporting. A private citizen may do what they wish, with whoever they wish. A journalist may not. 

That little tangent into the ethics of journalism aside, the reaction to the allegations against Quinn have been mostly vile and so considerably overwrought (as the reactions were, and continue to be, to her work) that it deserves to be considered as abnormal. I believe that abnormally terrible behavior lies in some pretty terrible sexism. For that reason alone, Quinn deserves our support. The work she has done and continues to do in order to defeat that type of thinking is vital.

I won’t link to any of the awfulness here. For what little my support is worth, I support Zoe Quinn and her work.

“This guy, who until 30 seconds ago was the target of an anti-terror raid (and who you can just waste…”

“”This guy, who until 30 seconds ago was the target of an anti-terror raid (and who you can just waste in the head, if you feel like it, to the chagrin of your superiors), is suddenly flitting between Occupy movement rhetoric (“Ever wonder by the big car companies pay 2 per cent tax, while the guys on the assembly line pay 40 per cent?”) and pro-Wikileaks soundbites (“Did you ever ask what it’s for? The surveillance? The police? Is that freedom?”). Besides the boxy, 4:3 ratio TVs back at counter-terrorist HQ, there’s not a thing in the thematic nature of DX1’s opening mission that’s aged a day.””

– How Deus Ex Predicted the Future.