I mean, trust me. I was AMONG DUDES in the 1990s. Dudes thought I was one of them. I know how many, many guys in their teens & early 20s talked abt her, thought abt her. She actively worked to maintain a culture of sexism within video games, gaming sites, gaming magazines, etc.
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Other folks, like the great Jeff Gerstmann or Greg Kasavin or Kevin VanOrd, largely got to be valued for their experience, their perspectives, their opinions. As a woman in that space, I was earmarked as having another primary purpose,...
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...one which I utterly failed to fulfill right out of the gate. And trust me, you can draw a fairly straight line from stuff like 1990s Lara Croft to a gaming culture so steeped in patriarchy and male entitlement that I, and women in general, are and were often evaluated this way
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Anti-feminist dudes are flocking to the defense of the Lara Croft celebrator, which kinda proves the point that such arguments only serve to make excuses for sexism.
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