(December 9, 2013 at 12:42 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Now I think we're finding real common ground here.
Yes, I think gamer culture has misogyny in it, no doubt. I've heard it thrown at me a time or two when I'm playing World of Warcraft and I've had other geek/gamers who are actually really surprised that I'm a girl gamer and I'm pretty good (I kinda like that, though, because it makes it so much more satisifying to beat them).
But I also think there's certain feminists who have a bad habit of making misogyny where no misogyny actually exists and this is a problem... and it should be seen as a problem to other feminists. Specifically, it starts to turn into a boy who cried wolf thing. If they call eveyrthing misogyny, people are going to start dismissing them whenever they talk about misogyny. When that happens and real misogyny rears its ugly head, nobody is listening to them so it's kinda hard to do something about it.
Ohhh I get that satisfactory feeling, even though I do not identify as a woman, I dont want to constantly explain nullgender to people online so I say 'my sex is female'. Beating people up after that does feel so good if it's not expected
and then some people are just like 'lol cool' which makes me go 'aaaawwww yay'. There are definitely blurred lines with misogyny as well, and you are right that feminists should evaluate and ensure that something is truly misogynistic. Yeah I think we definitely found common ground. I am also very happy that this did not turn into some ugly argument, which with these topics there is a tendency to happen.
