I hate this whole topic like several other topics because when I say "fuck gamers" casually I am not really saying that. I see them purely as victims. But they're victims of... who? People who don't exist anymore.
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Girls received this bullying in absolute sincerity and I don't doubt that for one second.
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The other thing though is that I said "if this happened you're lying" - absolutely false. I don't even know why I said that. What I meant was, "if this happened you /had/ to have seen the signs that it was disingenuous."
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Maybe you didn't. Maybe they all didn't. Maybe you weren't that perceptive as a kid or maybe they were better liars or, yes, maybe you did live in the sticks and videogames weren't cool.
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Here's what I meant: A lot of this narrative comes from people who grew up in places and times where, no, "playing games" was not unpopular or seen as dorky. And often these people play entirely the kind of games that "the jocks" were playing at the same time.
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And at this point in their lives, /they should be able to reflect on this/. In their late 20s and 30s they should be able to start recognizing where they went wrong. And they aren't.
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And the /reason/ they aren't is because this narrative is sold as a religion and an identity and they're told by countless voices "no no, you ARE persecuted" and the damage is reinforced year after year.
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And what I'm saying is that it is my firm belief that HAD NOBODY TOLD THEM they were persecuted, they would not have ended up like this. Someone started feeding carefully crafted narratives to injured and susceptible minds.
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