While some of their language has changed the sentiment of this aggressive online movement is just as distressing. As one of their targets, I should know

While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it

  • dactylothecaEnglish
    20•5 months ago

    Even on Lemmy, which is generally full of exactly the sort of people gAmErS hate, gaming communities tend to be… well, gaming communities. At least this post hasn’t gotten downvoted into the negatives, but it’s got 50% as many downvotes as upvotes at the time I’m writing this. Sure, maybe some of those people have legitimate issues with the article, but I very much doubt it – it’s more likely they just saw “misogyny” in the title and downvoted without reading it.

    Edit: are there any less, uh, gamery gaming communities around?

    • LinkOpensChest.wav
      12•5 months ago

      Oh I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. My instance actually disables downvotes, so I can’t see that, but there are a lot of reddit transplants here (I’m one of them), and reddit’s takes on things like feminism and women are overall not … good.

    • SilverserenOP
      2•5 months ago

      My crosspost to gaming@beehaw.org doesn’t seem to have any downvotes, so maybe there?

      Edit: Do note that the other thread ended up locked because some Gamergate chuds did show up, but the mods did promptly deal with them.