So apparently Lionhead posted a picture of a woman holding a jug in each hand and saying "The Foaming Jugs". A little reaching for the low hanging fruit in my humble opinion, but that's probably because I've never found puns to be particularly funny. Also it's for National Clevage day, which I looked up and turns out is celebrated in South Africa. So for a British company to be bringing it up is...odd. Overall I'm not sure what the point of this picture was. A joke that wasn't that funny dedicated to a holiday most of the people who saw it probably didn't celebrate or even knew about. The problem is that the internet reacted the way it normally did. Some people said they took issue with the joke and Lionhead took it down, apologizing for it. Overall it didn't really seem like that big of a deal. Minor spur of the moment esque joke, some people don't like it, it gets taken down, nothing really major happening. Sadly the internet reacted the way it always does. By overreacting. But this went beyond just people arguing, official articles have been posted that are just downright unprofessional about this mess.
http://www.gamezone.com/news/lionhead-tweets-in-celebration-of-national-cleavage-day-internet-freaks-out-3414656
First article from gamezone declaring that the internet has lost its sense of humor. Apparently because I didn't find this picture funny, I have no sense of humor. I just don't think it's funny, because I don't think puns are funny. He then goes on to rant how clearly any joke about the female body is prohibited. Hyberbolic strawman arguments seems to have become a popular reaction to someone disagreeing with you on the internet, but for the love of god. This is an article. An official article. The man who wrote this is getting PAID to rant about how no one on the internet has a sense of humor because we don't all laugh at the same joke. We are under no obligation to find jokes funny. The joke Lionhead made wasn't funny, not because it was sexist, but because it's a cheap pun. But don't worry, people who didn't like the joke also completely threw professionalism to the wind.
http://arcadesushi.com/lionhead-studios-cleavage-tweet-controversy/
This article claims that "Lionhead?s Tasteless Tweets Are Just the Latest Examples of Gaming?s 'Boys Only' Culture" and things like "The thoughtlessness of those actions along with the image itself just repeats a message women in gaming are used to hearing: ?You don?t belong here.? I have to admit that I agree on some level with some of the points in the article, just like I imagine some people agree with the points on some level made in the first article. That being said, I can't help but roll my eyes at some of comments here. Boys only culture? You're not welcome? As someone who has made the odd sexist joke in the past, anyone worth a damn will stop when a woman tells him that a joke he told made him uncomfortable.
But can we just agree on something? That these articles are completely unprofessional. Both of them. There seems to be a massive problem on the internet lately in that it's not enough to disagree with someone, people blow things out of proportion, pulling things out of thin air to criticize their opponents with. I'd say it was a strawman argument but honestly strawman arguments require the strawman to vaguely look like the person you're arguing against. These narratives constructed by these people aren't strawmen, they're downright fabrications, things invented for the sake of being defeated. We've devolved to this.
http://betterutah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/donquixote.jpg
So many people nowadays don't want to argue against other people. They argue against exaggerated stereotypes of the people they disagree with. And it's spread all the way to media. Is this new? Probably not. But can we all just agree that it's a thing? And that it's gotten a little out of hand?
http://www.gamezone.com/news/lionhead-tweets-in-celebration-of-national-cleavage-day-internet-freaks-out-3414656
First article from gamezone declaring that the internet has lost its sense of humor. Apparently because I didn't find this picture funny, I have no sense of humor. I just don't think it's funny, because I don't think puns are funny. He then goes on to rant how clearly any joke about the female body is prohibited. Hyberbolic strawman arguments seems to have become a popular reaction to someone disagreeing with you on the internet, but for the love of god. This is an article. An official article. The man who wrote this is getting PAID to rant about how no one on the internet has a sense of humor because we don't all laugh at the same joke. We are under no obligation to find jokes funny. The joke Lionhead made wasn't funny, not because it was sexist, but because it's a cheap pun. But don't worry, people who didn't like the joke also completely threw professionalism to the wind.
http://arcadesushi.com/lionhead-studios-cleavage-tweet-controversy/
This article claims that "Lionhead?s Tasteless Tweets Are Just the Latest Examples of Gaming?s 'Boys Only' Culture" and things like "The thoughtlessness of those actions along with the image itself just repeats a message women in gaming are used to hearing: ?You don?t belong here.? I have to admit that I agree on some level with some of the points in the article, just like I imagine some people agree with the points on some level made in the first article. That being said, I can't help but roll my eyes at some of comments here. Boys only culture? You're not welcome? As someone who has made the odd sexist joke in the past, anyone worth a damn will stop when a woman tells him that a joke he told made him uncomfortable.
But can we just agree on something? That these articles are completely unprofessional. Both of them. There seems to be a massive problem on the internet lately in that it's not enough to disagree with someone, people blow things out of proportion, pulling things out of thin air to criticize their opponents with. I'd say it was a strawman argument but honestly strawman arguments require the strawman to vaguely look like the person you're arguing against. These narratives constructed by these people aren't strawmen, they're downright fabrications, things invented for the sake of being defeated. We've devolved to this.
http://betterutah.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/donquixote.jpg
So many people nowadays don't want to argue against other people. They argue against exaggerated stereotypes of the people they disagree with. And it's spread all the way to media. Is this new? Probably not. But can we all just agree that it's a thing? And that it's gotten a little out of hand?
