lol. k. how convenient that you get to feel that way, never having experienced firsthand just how incredibly misogynistic games culture can be, and how those attitudes are so fueled and reinforced by the content of so many games. enjoy your privilege.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
Oh PLEASE keep playing that particular card. I LOVE it when people someone who they don't know what they have and haven't experienced. It gives me a good chuckle
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Replying to @advancedflea
It's just a fact. You couldn't go through what I've gone through and have the slightest shred of doubt about the widespread sexism of games and the role games themselves have historically played in reinforcing that highly misogynistic culture around games.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
You actually have the gall to say that after assuming my life experience? You are fucking hilarious, I hope you realise that. Although I should point out that I’m more over laughing AT you, rather than with you.
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Replying to @advancedflea
I'm not assuming anything about your life experience other than that it isn't mine and that clearly it has not illuminated for you how the widespread misogyny IN games has reinforced the culture of misogyny AROUND games.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
You're making assumptions about me in the same tweet that you say you're not making assumptions about me. Let me ask you this very simple question; Do you believe that violence in video games reinforces violence outside of video games?
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Replying to @advancedflea
Of course, it reinforces the fact that domination through violence is accepted and even admired as an interpersonal and international value. It's well-documented that media influences our cultural values, our understanding of gender, our fears, our sense of beauty, and so on.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
even though there has been study after study by various organisations and universities to prove that it doesn't.
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Replying to @advancedflea
Really?! People didn't start avoiding the beach in droves after the release of Jaws? Kids of Indian and South Asian descent didn't have widespread experiences of being mocked as "Apu" and "Jafar" in the 90s?
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @advancedflea
The presence of humanized trans characters in stuff like Transparent and Orange Is the New Black isn't helping contribute to a marginally less transphobic culture? Advertising hasn't made cigarette smoking seem "cool" to young people?
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Millions of people don't have their perceptions of what sex and romance are supposed to look like influenced by depictions of these things in movies and on TV? No young man ever sees a tough male hero in a movie or video game and wants to be like them?
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Replying to @carolynmichelle @advancedflea
Media has a tremendous impact on our cultural values. To suggest otherwise is sheer folly.
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“There is now consensus that exposure to media violence is linked to actual violent behavior.” https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/does-media-violence-lead-to-the-real-thing.html …
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