Airola
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But Matt identifies as a 54 year old woman, how dare you say she's not a real woman.
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Kotaku: The Cost Of Being A Woman Who Covers Video Games
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But Matt identifies as a 54 year old woman, how dare you say she's not a real woman.
Southern Gentleman
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This post made me laugh, out loud
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I really find it hilarious how triggered people here get by Kotaku articles.
Kotaku’s woke politics is a large part of the site. We all know that at this point. Ignoring the site, only skimming for certain game related content, or reading the site for the different perspective it offers all seem like better options than raging every time someone links an article here.
Kotaku’s woke politics is a large part of the site. We all know that at this point. Ignoring the site, only skimming for certain game related content, or reading the site for the different perspective it offers all seem like better options than raging every time someone links an article here.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
What's the cost of employing a journalist who writes this dreck?
Grinchy
Banned
It's probably cheap as hell. You hire some fresh-out-of-college woke kid, pay them as much as they would have made at Starbucks, and they can live at home and work from the laptop their parents bought them.
They don't even need to own the consoles that they review the games for. It's not like they're playing the games anyway.
Fnord
Member
People realize there's "Democratic" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, right?
Dory16
Banned
SJW has become the evil banner some (evidently male) people wave the moment a female dares to question the fairness of the treatment that she receives. That was the point and not to say that SJW is necessarily just because there’s justice in it.
Some of you give weight to the notion that gamers are illiterate (male) teenagers who look for an escape from the normal world in front of screens and are allergic to any complexity being displayed on them other than explosions and good old stereotypes.
Elektro Demon
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The Mad Draklor
Member
I disagree. It's when the wrong kind of attention is given (e.g. sending threats) is where the bullshit keeps happening.
Taking the time to debunk and explain why so-and-so's opinions are illogical is more productive and more effective at showing others how full of shit that person is.
Also, archiving exists. You can share articles without giving the sites clicks that way.
Fnord
Member
There's part of the problem right there. I know many women that are "anti-SJWs." It's almost as though you can't lump people into ideological belief systems or assume their life experiences based solely upon their inherent, physical character traits. Like SJWs seem to want to do.
Dory16
Banned
Nobody here defends SJW as an ideology (assuming that it is one and not just a scarecrow manufactured by some males intent on protecting a privileges filled status quo at all costs).
The woman in the OP doesn’t say SJW anywhere in the article. It didn’t take long for GAG posters to brand her one because that’s much easier than addressing her actual points. It is a non intellectual response that serves the cause of SJW.
InterMusketeer
Member
None of the things she describes in her article have anything to do with being a woman though. It's about introducing and pushing the regressive politics of intersectional feminism and identity politics that resulted in this backlash. Men (even the white, cis hetero ones!) got the exact same treatment. It's a great example of how these "progressives" fundamentally misunderstand that it's not important who you are but what you do.
"Some of you give weight to the notion that gamers are illiterate (male) teenagers who look for an escape from the normal world in front of screens and are allergic to any complexity being displayed on them other than explosions and good old stereotypes."
The Cost of Being a Man (Or Anyone, Realy) Who Discusses VideoGames Online.
People who don't know a damn thing about me mindlessly brand me as an illiterate teenager who looks for an escape from the normal world in front of screens and is allergic to any complexity being displayed on them other than explosions and good old stereotypes.
Basically stripping away an context or meaning to any points I might make to score some cheap points by implying I am an illiterate simpleton who just wants mindless entertainment because it's all I can appreciate.
That's FINE though. Nothing to see here.
What's hilarious to me is that yours and M Metnut posts are actually a complete and very effective refutation of her article.
It's seems "women" are not the only ones who can't give an opinion without someone coming in to jump all over it and make disingenuous replies etc.
So you proved that she is wrong. You proved that the very premise of her article is misguided. Well done.
I mean, here you are on a website where people get ripped on for supporting Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony or for having opinions on pretty much every major game release and yet ONLY when it's a female game journalist on the end of some spicy replies does anyone think it's suddenly a bad thing.
"I'll defend her point that it's tough for women to cover videogames by, with no self-awareness whatsoever, ripping on bunch of other people giving their opinions."
Well done lads.
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Fuz
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ExpandKong
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The fact that you actually clicked on and read a Kotaku article says more about your IQ than my shitposting says about mine.
I was commenting on your "think about your poor moms and sisters" comment, not about the article. That's why I quoted your post and not the article. Stay woke though fam.
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Dory16
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Of course, the high IQ person is the one that comments without reading first. Makes sense.The fact that you actually clicked on and read a Kotaku article says more about your IQ than my shitposting says about mine.
kurisu_1974
is on perm warning for being a low level troll
I was promised they were going out of business.
More alt right lies probably.
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More alt right lies probably.
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KOMANI
KOMANI
Yeah, 10 times. /s
I would also mention Suikoden had many female developers, and then there’s this gem...
Warning: Producer of Metal Gear Solid touch *is* Female
This week's Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask?
kotaku.com
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ExpandKong
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mcjmetroid
Member
From a 90s British Sketch show. The best parody of this sort of thing I've seen
Shizumapower
Member
'Don't do that'
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was cooked up by Anita S.
As for sharing articles without linking, that's all well and good, but the vast majority of people are far too lazy to share without giving clicks.
There is an argument for exposing it for the frauds that they are, but at the end of the day these people are nothing more than attention seekers and giving them that attention good or bad fuels it more. You give them bad attention and it fuels the victim mentality even more. "These comments are exactly why women are scared!" You give them good attention and they feel that they are "heroes"
As for sharing articles without linking, that's all well and good, but the vast majority of people are far too lazy to share without giving clicks.
Yeah, 10 times. /s
I would also mention Suikoden had many female developers, and then there’s this gem...
Warning: Producer of Metal Gear Solid touch *is* Female
This week's Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask?
I think this could be taken much further since it's very likely that the vast majority of people playing games have absolutely no idea who made those games.
It occurs to me that most of the games I loved as a child and in my early teens were made by Japanese adult men halfway across the world and I wouldn't have even known that's where the games came from until I was probably in my late teens.
So you have to wonder where this idea is coming from that we can only properly enjoy games made by people who are just like us.
Some lads in Japan made Links' Awakening. Some lady in the US made Depression Quest.
It's mad to me that people sincerely believe that DQ ought to resonate more with women simply because it was made by one.
There is just no sensible logic there.
100+ million Playstation 4 consoles sold. How many of those 100 million owners are doing a deep dive on the creators of their games just to make sure that they are matching their own race, gender or sexuality to the game's creators.
How does any of this explain the massive popularity of Nintendo games that are coming out of a somewhat historically and culturally isolated nation and yet are somehow appealing to so many different demographics?
Ryu Kaiba
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BigBooper
Member
You might want to look up propaganda in a dictionary.
Dory16
Banned
Propaganda can also be the notion that anything even remotely denouncing an inequality between men and women is by nature propaganda.
imsosleepy
Member
These are the post that gain them LOADS of hits though
Kotaku money machine is working hard at delivering money
Kotaku money machine is working hard at delivering money
Dory16
Banned
I said "some" but if the shoe fits...
Only when it's a female journalist do I think that online harassment and name calling is a bad thing? I assure you I also thought it was bad when I was called a Microsoft PR employee for making a post praising game pass (so was the journalist from Forbes who did the same but I digress). It's of course worse when the motivation is raw bigotry and not just blind fanboyism.
lock2k
Banned
Are you Dory the fish?
MoreJRPG
Suffers from extreme PDS
Exactly. I ignore all these garbage articles. Reading the synopsis in the OP is enough for me to laugh and go on with my day.
Thabass
Member
Someone invite her to NeoGAF on the double.
LordClansman
Member
In a way, you're very spot on, we all know Kotaku is filled with ridiculous articles, same as Polygon, there's no need to keep bringing them up, just imagine the most stupid thing you can and its probably gonna be an article in Kotaku.
Life is too short to spend it being angry at idiots!
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
The narrative that women are victims is over, there're equal rights today.
Screamer-RSA
Member
my friend.
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If you have to post something from them can't you just copy and paste it instead of putting up a link for people to click on and increase their hit count?
We dont need to give that joke of a obnoxious and pretentious shit show of a fucktard website anymore attention than we have to. Those folks give gamers a bad name and are a prime example of amateur "journalism". I wish they would go out of business and everyone lose their job and have to go get an actual real job. Except Mike Fahey, that guy is pretty cool and I miss his snaktaku segments.
We dont need to give that joke of a obnoxious and pretentious shit show of a fucktard website anymore attention than we have to. Those folks give gamers a bad name and are a prime example of amateur "journalism". I wish they would go out of business and everyone lose their job and have to go get an actual real job. Except Mike Fahey, that guy is pretty cool and I miss his snaktaku segments.
trikster40
Member
while I do agree somewhat, you can’t moan about gender equality, women can do everything just as good as men, women deserve the same jobs, etc etc and then with the next breath complain about how Hard said job is because you’re a woman.
MiyazakiHatesKojima
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I only posted the link to prove it's not a troll thread, and fuck them enough from me to even post that entire shit article. It's absolute trash and a waste of time to even read it, hence the Colin Powell meme I added.
