Omegavegeta wrote:
I thought it was, actually, unless you happen to be part of the vocal minority that's not representative of most people that plays video games.
Believe it or not, I'm a gamer. I'll be 33 next year and I had a Nintendo at 5 & built my first PC at 16. Not one of the stereotypical "gamer" terms used in that particular article to describe gamers or gamer culture bothered me at all. Some of them even apply to me. Sure, it was a bit mean but given that its a response to gamergate that isn't exactly surprising.
The problem is, I don't want to be considered a gamer anymore. Not because I don't play video games (Currently loving Alien Isolation & counting the days until Civ: Beyond Earth) but because the trolls like the asshole that started gamergate have made it a derogatory term.
Believe it or not, I'm a gamer. I'll be 33 next year and I had a Nintendo at 5 & built my first PC at 16. Not one of the stereotypical "gamer" terms used in that particular article to describe gamers or gamer culture bothered me at all. Some of them even apply to me. Sure, it was a bit mean but given that its a response to gamergate that isn't exactly surprising.
The problem is, I don't want to be considered a gamer anymore. Not because I don't play video games (Currently loving Alien Isolation & counting the days until Civ: Beyond Earth) but because the trolls like the asshole that started gamergate have made it a derogatory term.
I'm not part of that vocal minority and, while I don't really self-identify as a gamer, I'd have no issue with someone considering me one because I have been part of many facets of the vibrant gaming community. If someone can't see past a small fraction of it, if they want to label me as a woman-hating misogynist for playing some video games then obviously that's not a person I want to know very well anyway. I'd like to think that anyone whose opinion I actually give a shit about knows me well enough to assume that I don't support sending death threats or threatening to rape people into silence.
That Alexander can't see any value to the gaming community or any culture to it beyond maladjusted morons with silly hats tells me that she's obviously not capable of writing about the community anyway. If that's all she has been able to take from it and she feels it's some cultureless void unless she and her allies fill it like some Social Justice Warrior's version of the white man's burden then I'd be just as happy if she stayed away from it. She sees nothing but stereotypical basement dwellers where I've seen a ton of other things (already described in my previous post). Very white of her to offer to bring the community her "culture" but I think they're already doing okay without her and people who share that view.
Edited, Oct 22nd 2014 12:01am by Jophiel