Elinda wrote:
2. a. Petitions are nice peaceful protesting tools, though ideologically speaking, Gamergate is about ethics in journalism, so they'd be way off message with this petition. In fact, they 'd be playing into their skeptics hand who claim they don't like girls with mouths.
2. b. I doubt if many gamers, including the thousand that signed this petition, make it a habit to check the curriculum vitae of the devs working on a title before buying and playing a game. Again, this anti-anita push is nothing if not irrational. ****, for all you or I know she could add something to a game, or at least earn her pay. But then I enjoy games mostly for the gaming mechanics more-so than the graphics or storyline. I wouldn't be hurt if a game that might have had tits&aas, didn't. Anyways, there are enough games being made that allowing Anita to provide expert feminism input to a title or two isn't going to crash the industry. I mean GG has pretty much made it a necessity that the industry pay some attention to 'isms'.
2. b. I doubt if many gamers, including the thousand that signed this petition, make it a habit to check the curriculum vitae of the devs working on a title before buying and playing a game. Again, this anti-anita push is nothing if not irrational. ****, for all you or I know she could add something to a game, or at least earn her pay. But then I enjoy games mostly for the gaming mechanics more-so than the graphics or storyline. I wouldn't be hurt if a game that might have had tits&aas, didn't. Anyways, there are enough games being made that allowing Anita to provide expert feminism input to a title or two isn't going to crash the industry. I mean GG has pretty much made it a necessity that the industry pay some attention to 'isms'.
(A) Assumes that people opposed to Sarkeesian's involvement are doing so on some sort of GG grounds. It's possible to dislike Sarkeesian's philosophy and yet not care about ethics in game journalism (and be opposed to Twitter rape threats). It's possible to care about said ethics AND dislike Sarkeesian's work for totally different reasons.
(B) Seems more anti-Sarkeesian than anti-woman. Doesn't the ME2 development team have women on it? I know ME1 was written by a woman. That said, while I'll agree that this seemed to be pretty much about Sarkeesian, you'd be surprised at how many avid gamers actually give a crap about following who is with what development team working on which project. At least I know I'm surprised when I see people give an opinion on an upcoming game based on "Well, it's written by the guys who did Space Warriors 2 so that's cool but the development team was responsible for Dragon Racer: Unleashed and that game was a buggy mess". I'm like "Ummm... I saw the Youtube trailer?"
