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<blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 6868181" data-attributes="member: 6688858">Well, I don't infantilize women, so I imagine they could handle it? It's just my opinion after all.I think it's important to maintain perspective.I'm all for that! As long as &quot;the problem&quot; is operationalized and a solution-focused approach is taken. Posting a message of support or outrage in a thread like this, which the author of the article likely won't even read, is just slacktivism IMO. I find it especially repellant when the poster seems mostly interested in showing off how unthreatened they are relative to other white men. That sort of thing belongs in a private browsing window, if you get my meaning.No. They send those threats because they're psychopaths. Nothing about gaming culture supports them in doing that. I'm generally in agreement with Christina Hoff Sommers about this; there's no connection between masculine gaming content and misogyny and sexual harassment. That's just as spurious as the idea that violent videogames breed violent people. The removal of chainmail bikinis from gaming art has prevented no incidences of harassment. The culture war going on in gaming between feminists and gamers who enjoy masculine content has no connection to real world violence.My opinion is the author created the vignettes (either out of whole cloth or loosely based on real events) to illustrate what this sort of discrimination looks like, for the purpose of generating empathetic insight. I'm not going to vilify her for this (as long as she's not accusing real people of anything) but I am going to share this opinion when I see people getting depressed by it and hating themselves for being gamers, or for being men.That was thoughtful, but I'm confident that the reason I'm skeptical about the article is because it's bizarre, not because I'm threatened or experiencing moral fatigue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Libramarian, post: 6868181, member: 6688858"] Well, I don't infantilize women, so I imagine they could handle it? It's just my opinion after all. I think it's important to maintain perspective. I'm all for that! As long as "the problem" is operationalized and a solution-focused approach is taken. Posting a message of support or outrage in a thread like this, which the author of the article likely won't even read, is just slacktivism IMO. I find it especially repellant when the poster seems mostly interested in showing off how unthreatened they are relative to other white men. That sort of thing belongs in a private browsing window, if you get my meaning. No. They send those threats because they're psychopaths. Nothing about gaming culture supports them in doing that. I'm generally in agreement with Christina Hoff Sommers about this; there's no connection between masculine gaming content and misogyny and sexual harassment. That's just as spurious as the idea that violent videogames breed violent people. The removal of chainmail bikinis from gaming art has prevented no incidences of harassment. The culture war going on in gaming between feminists and gamers who enjoy masculine content has no connection to real world violence. My opinion is the author created the vignettes (either out of whole cloth or loosely based on real events) to illustrate what this sort of discrimination looks like, for the purpose of generating empathetic insight. I'm not going to vilify her for this (as long as she's not accusing real people of anything) but I am going to share this opinion when I see people getting depressed by it and hating themselves for being gamers, or for being men. That was thoughtful, but I'm confident that the reason I'm skeptical about the article is because it's bizarre, not because I'm threatened or experiencing moral fatigue. [/QUOTE]

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