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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Beardsley to c/[email protected]

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I think gamers as a whole, though specifically those in niche communities, need to take a long and hard look at themselves. We should celebrate the volunteers that create wonderful content for us, generally with no financial gain. Instead, commonly, there are communities that criticize and tear down every little thing they can think of. They even went as far as to doxx the poor woman. We need to be better, and we need to hold these kind of toxic trolls accountable. Especially those of us who are men, we have a responsibility to call out other men who mistreat women in the gaming industry, or gaming in general.

*Edit: I apologize if I insinuated that all gamers are guilty of this kind of behavior, that was not my intention at all. My sentiment is that many of us do not think about this kind of thing, and less are willing to speak out against their friends. We need to be better about that as a whole. I appreciate you as a person if you are already of this mindset.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This is the sexism that we saw come out during the election. We thought the country was getting better but they were just quietly simmering but connecting online.

I said that with an American slanted focus but sadly it’s worldwide too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This is where my brain went, too. Even looking at this Lemmy thread. 6 of the 10 most upvoted top level comments (including THE most upvoted) are "not meee", "not alllll men", defensive crap or "well she should have just..." and "even men have to deal with it toooo" like damn. We ARE fucked.

[–] Dkarma 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's almost like people ignore men's issues and scapegoat them at every opportunity for the sake of women.

If men had said they picked the bear it would have been framed as misogyny.

Case in point. Some dude just got murdered by the cops cuz the home invader was a woman and the cops saw a man fighting a woman and shot the man by default.

Men will never ever get the benefit of the doubt, but when we try to demand it we are just crybabies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It’s almost like people ignore men’s issues and scapegoat them at every opportunity for the sake of women.

Men will never ever get the benefit of the doubt, but when we try to demand it we are just crybabies.

Welcome to society. Frankly, it's malagency (mis-assignment of agency, specifically in a fashion that often makes men responsible for things that happen to them even when they really aren't and often absolves women of that responsibility when they really should have it) all the way down.

Malagency as a lens predicts reality better than a lot of other gender focused lenses. "What would happen if women are believed to be less responsible for what happens than they really are and men are believed to be more responsible for what happens than they really are?" tends to map to reality better than "What would happen if everything in society were created by men to benefit men at the expense of women and to oppress women?" Especially once you stop looking narrowly at the top few percent of men, where the two lenses give similar results.

and the cops saw a man fighting a woman and shot the man by default.

Something like 95% of people shot by police are men. This of course is not discriminatory on the grounds that men are evil, violent savages unlike every other group that are disproportionately shot by police who are innocent victims of oppression.

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