girl on my fb is defending gamers gate because she was made fun in school for liking final fantasy and wearing nerd shirts
i'm not advocating a pull up yer bootstraps nerds thing because i was made fun of liking anime and this doesn't affect my adult life at all. When you're a teenager, you tend to have identities. An anime fan/gamer was my identity and I'll say that my friends and I went too hard in the paint. And that's why we were laughed at. Not because we liked anime but because we made an identity out of it. I've had some growing paints and I"m not advocating bullying, but shouldn't adulthood help iron some of the issues out?
I dunno. Am I being hypocritical here? I'm not advocating bullying.
Gaming can be a culture without being the basis of one's entire identity. It's not a binary thing. Really depends on how your friend is viewing it.
The issue here was kotaku and that ilk calling all gamers fat losers who are misogynists and racist in response to some people pointing out questionable relationships with some devs. It was a generalized attack on a group of people's characters, the group defined by one thing. It was basic bigotry (of which there is some in the thread here) that got a louder response than the people doing it expected.
Example: Brony's weird me out. I don't think a toy and cartoon should be the heart of your identity. Saying that, I don't really know if that criticism applies to everyone who watches the show. I wouldn't say a Brony is a loser just because of some awkward photos that I've seen. I could joke about Brony's being horse fuckers, but if I actually start to believe that deep down then it' generalizes, dismisses and robs people of their individual humanity. That's the by-the-numbers way of being a bigot.
And when you do that in response to accusations of ethical impropriety then you just look stupid and guilty.