I think I know why gamers react so vocally to sexism (theory)

[Racecarlock]

Did you know the phrase "Get back to the kitchen" is a meme?

People wonder why women are so quick to accuse things of sexism. Have you seen this? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-back-to-the-kitchen

Now, I have seen, in online gaming at least, that either this phrase is used or some asshole demands the lady send a picture of her tits. And yeah, there are some legitimate gaming whores out there. The problem is that many online gamers seem to have assumed ALL OF THEM ARE when that's not the case.

Maybe DOAX 2 is not to blame for this, but it seems like 90% of female game characters are designed to look like nudist fashion models. Then, when actual fucking women show up, when they don't immediately show their tits, it is then demanded of them to get back to the kitchen and start making sandwiches.

Let's face facts folks. People defend this shit because they want to continue to treat women like they're combination stripper chefs. Or because "it's the norm". Yeah, sexism in the real world was the norm too. In the 50s. Things change. And seriously, I'm getting tired of hearing that a woman quit gaming because of these assholes. Thanks to these dickfaces, hundreds if not thousands of women have now been turned off of a hobby they might otherwise have found enjoyable because of all the sexual and sandwich demand based harassment. That is wrong. That is bullshit. It's time to not let the trolls be trolls without repercussions anymore. They need to be banned, they need to be muted. This is simply not acceptable anymore.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Not really any more than numerous other groups. Hell, the only groups I can think of who have reacted on a scale comparable to gamers are people who have actually had their divil rights directly challenged (mostly brown people who seem to bear the brunt of the blame for all of America's woes in an election year and who actually see legislation attacking them really come to full force).

The notion that gamers don't want to be sexist is true, but that's not unique. The dismissive nature of sexism claims not only in other media but also real life demonstrates that.

However, given the histrionics from gamers, you'd think they'd actually had some right taken away by simply addressing sexism. Because the evil women are coming to take their shit away or something.

I wonder how many gamers would trade their "persecution" for the persecution of the people they scream about. People of colour (TERRERESTS! ILLEGUL IMMIGANTS!), gays (KILL THEM! BEAT THEM! KEEP THEM AWAY FROM OUR CHILDREN!), women (RAPE IS OKAY BECAUSE BITCHES IS ASKING FOR IT!), etc.

Gamers may not want to be sexist, but that doesn't excuse the persecution complex and the childish, disproportionate responses.

This. All of this. Quoted for Truth.

As a member of several of the groups mentioned above, I will admit that those groups getting defensive in the face of what (at times) appears to be truly massive opposition is a natural response.

However, that does not excuse - to quote Zachary - the "childish, disproportionate responses".

Gamers make a big deal about being a constant scapegoat, but you know what - you aren't the only ones. In fact, lately, Gamers have been making a bad habit of making Women out to be the scapegoats (those damn Feminists. Back to the kitchen), particularly their OWN women (remember that Fake Gamer Girl BS a few months ago?). The same thing goes for gay Gamers (why would they need a Gaymer Con? Or gay romance options in games? etc).

There are people who are persecuted worse than you - people who see the possibility of having their lives ruined by laws passed by their own government. Gamers are not that bad off. Stop acting like it.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Or it could be that the majority of male gamers want to appear as champions for womens rights in the misguided hope a woman will see them as such and have sex with them. And all that time they still buy games like Dead or Alive or Tera and such like, believing there's nothing wrong with it at all.

 

[Erttheking]

Or it could be that the majority of male gamers want to appear as champions for womens rights in the misguided hope a woman will see them as such and have sex with them. And all that time they still buy games like Dead or Alive or Tera and such like, believing there's nothing wrong with it at all.

Uh...I'm not sure that that is very fair. Gamers campaign against sexism to get sex? No, that's not a fair accusation, I speak out against sexism. I'm not an activist but I call it out, and I'm never going to have sex with a woman in my entire life. I'll die a virgin and I've made peace with that fact.

 

[ProbabilityZero]

Hang on wait! When did a game portraying something unrealistically become a crime? Like seriously women being given big boobs, men big crotch plates, monsters giant tentacles and claws, robots have super-luminous internet and so on and so forth. Games do not exist to be real and neither do they exist to be nice (shooting people and the like are horrible and we still get massive amounts of entertainment from it). Games exist to be enjoyable if any female gets offended by unrealistic portrayal of boobs, any male offended by a far to big crotch size, any monster having too big or too small a set of claws then I say they have completely missed the point of gaming in the first place or are jealous that their biology cannot stay in front of the human mind. Now this is not to say that having a dead or alive girl in COD is acceptable because it isn't, but it isn't sexist because they choose to depict women unrealistically, it is just a great example of a studio or publisher who is incapable of setting an experience that keeps to the same themes but manages to create enough variety for enjoyment. In a perfect world no one would part from their money for an experience that isn't well thought out, planned and realised but the world isn't perfect and big companies are rarely punished for their lack of focus but to call that sexism is like calling a pig a cow.