Hey there's a weird revisionist game history tweetstorm floating around about games and gender so here's better infohttps://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed …
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Replying to @UnburntWitch
It is profoundly silly to say that there was no sexism in nerd culture before console gaming got popular
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Replying to @UnburntWitch
...Does no one remember early tabletop gaming??pic.twitter.com/IkitFCOa9R
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Replying to @gwenckatz @UnburntWitch
Also, biological determinism is disproven bullshit with no credible science behind it, so it's not exactly something people should profess.
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the quote should read "I'm sexist and I once met a woman who didn't like gaming, confirming my biases."
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Replying to @infernal_glow @KuraFire and
'once met' lol., I guess you werent around in the 80s or 90s when gaming and computers werent cool and lucrative
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Replying to @Petrarch_kee @KuraFire and
lol I guess u weren't around in 20th c when women pioneered early programming/computing
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Replying to @infernal_glow @KuraFire and
Dont be silly, im not talking about all women.
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Place your bets that this guy is eventually going to use the word "incel."
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Replying to @gwenckatz @infernal_glow and
incels dont exist, we live in a just world where all single people deserve to be single for being immoral, come on
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