t3trahedron:

fierceawakening:

misanthropymademe:

earlgraytay:

anchovy-official:

pineappleismahname:

Ah. I see you dont actually know what the fuck gaming is and have no understanding of the concept. Are you 50 or a feminist?

okay, no. this is fucking misinformation. 

there are more female pc gamers than male gamers (it’s like 50.2%) and around half of those female gamers consider themselves to be ‘hardcore gamers’. At least 6% of women in the US consider themselves to be gamers (compared to 33% of men), and many more women play video games without calling themselves gamers.

black and hispanic kids spend more time on average playing video games than white kids. in fact depending on what research and what game you look at the majority of the video game player base are black and hispanic kids and teenagers. 

i couldn’t find statistics on how many lgbt+ people play video games compared to the general population, but it’s enough to support a cottage industry of gay dating sims. Also, there are at least a handful of prominent indie devs who are openly queer and speak out about homophobia in the gaming industry.

unless you’re claiming that every single one of these people hates women and minorities- that every single female gamer is boiling in internalised misogyny, that every single POC gamer is boiling in internalised racism and antiblackness, that every single lgbt+ gamer is boiling in internalised homophobia- then the people who call themselves ‘gamers’ are not gamers because they hate women and minorities. they’re gamers because … they like playing video games.  

The people who hate women and minorities are a relatively small proportion of loud assholes. They are not the biggest part of the gaming community. They like to claim they are the majority, because they’re assholes and assholes want to be the centre of attention now and forever. but they’re not the majority; we are.  

racist, sexist, bigoted assholes do not get to take our nice things. assholes do not get to steal the stuff we like and say that only assholes can use it, whether it’s death metal, norse mythology, or the word ‘gamer’. period. end of story. 

every time you spread this shit around- every time you play like cishet white boy assholes are the majority of gamers- you are letting them win. you are letting them take something good and twist it into something shitty. 

is that really what you want?  

The people who post images like that with real sincerity are rarer than those who do it tongue-in-cheek (I’ve posted the second one myself on occassion). The people who really take that shit at face value, who believe Gamergate had a significant impact on the 2016 election and who constantly try to kick the wasp nest then complain when they get any sort of reply, they’re a lost cause. The Chus and the MovieBobs and the like live in their own little world and no amount of pleas on how they’re erasing minorities are going to reach them. 

So you just agree with them. You loudly proclaim you’re every -ism under the sun, you do seven different forms of misogyny before breakfast, any progressive things you say is only uttered to get laid, and you’re secretly asking for feet pics from every girl gamer you encounter, calling them a casual if they don’t provide. Pretend to be a straight cis white man while proclaiming this, even if the rest of your feed and your bio clearly give away you aren’t. Lay it on so thick that only the most clueless of tools won’t get it. It’s heaps of fun. 

Doesn’t this depend, though?

I mean I don’t think every young dude who screams faggots on his mike actually hates gay people. Odds are higher he just loves naughty words.

But listening to people like him can still get tiring.

Yeah. ‘Heaps of fun’ is great and all, but it’s probably not so good for people who aren’t ‘in on it’ trying to play. I know a fair few girls who’ve had to quit certain games because of the abuse they were getting, not heaps of fun for them, was it?

I mean, you can’t really criticise people for saying a group is racist or sexist when you, a member of that group, are pretending to be racist and sexist. That’s why they think that. It’s also why racist and sexist people are perfectly comfortable and safe there, ‘cause as far as they know lots of people have the same beliefs and ideologies as them. You doing this ironically actually makes things worse.