I originally wrote this bit in September, and while the Gamergate
scandal is pretty much old news by now, it'll only keep getting older.
So since this was the soonest that my general disorganization would
permit me to chime in, I thought I'd get my take on this
flash-in-the-pan scandal out the gate before it became any more
obsolete; I felt that I had something relevant to say, and it's just a
pity I couldn't get it said sooner.
I now present the original text, without any subsequent revision.
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Let's
look at the Gamergate scandal. It's pretty obvious why women are not
welcomed into the gaming community; it's because gaming is about
escapist fantasy, and for men in general (excluding those who've been
"tamed" by women, or were born "different" as statistical anomalies),
the single most important fact of the life they need to escape is the
fact that they can't get laid. (A general lack of power in their lives
is concurrent with this, and often the two are conflated into fantasies
of rape or harems and such - but most men wouldn't turn up their nose at
sex where they got everything they wanted handed to them but were not
at all in control of the process.) Women can't understand this, because
they don't have a NEED to have sex, constantly and for brief periods
which only "reset the clock" for a matter of hours; for the most part
they don't need to bring sex into their games at all, but certainly if
they do, it'll be more like seducing a single partner for the duration
of the game until finally achieving an LTR in the good ending, and less
like having slutty elf maidens drop as treasure with every sixth monster
you kill so that you can regain hit points by fucking them.
The
bottom line is, men want games which objectify women, for the same
reason they want games which glamorize violence, minimize social
strictures, and award ridiculous quantities of wealth for trivial
achievements. Women getting into the industry are likely to object to
this treatment of their fictional sisters, clearly proving that they
aren't adequately cognizant on the "fictional" part (though they have a
point, many of them men aren't quite on top of that one either). Men
don't want their entertainment watered down and deprived of one of its
key features, and so when girls try to horn in, they resist.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
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