[ SECRET POST #2801 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2801 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #400.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What really pisses me off isn't that it's gone on for so long, but that so many other people are being dragged into it, as if Zoe's actions somehow delegitimize feminism in video games. They've started going after Anita again, this time so hard that she had to stay at a friend's house because she was so scared.

What was her crime? She made a feminist critique of video games. People have started comparing her to Jack Thompson when she's basically a fucking film critic. There have been feminist critiques of films, TV, and books, and yet nobody's howling about how feminists want to censor and destroy television, movies, or what have you. It shows you how puerile these people are - they interpret any critique of games as a threat to censor them, and think that games should be mindless entertainment without any attempts to analyze them. And it's pretty clear the people who criticize her haven't even watched her videos, they're just going by what other people say about her; she outright said that a game isn't necessarily bad just because it has a sexist trope in it, and people who play these games and enjoy them aren't automatically terrible sexist people. She never mentioned banning games that already had these tropes in them or censoring future games. Not to mention all the people complaining about her closing her Youtube comments without understanding the definition of "free speech." The laws only ensure that the government won't arrest you or impinge upon your right to express opinions, not that privately owned sites couldn't ban you for being an asshat.

Sorry for the rant, but I just fucking hate 4chan right now. I used to like going there because the style of posting appealed to my internet social anxiety, but now I can't stand the place anymore. It feels like it's been hijacked by a bunch of shrieking manbabies who can't handle people with different opinions.

[(Anonymous)]

And even if it turns out that Zoe did underhanded things, I don't think she deserves the sheer level of vitriol being hurled at her. If you're really going after "corruption" in gaming journalism, then go after the guys she allegedly slept with. This matter should have been settled privately between her and her boyfriend, and should have ended with the breakup.

Judging by the interview of her ex, he regrets releasing the info online. Either he's so clueless about gaming culture that he didn't know how many people would start baying for Zoe's blood, or he knew exactly what he was doing but didn't anticipate the sheer scale of the reaction and how bad it makes him look, and is now backpedaling hard enough to power a large generator. I don't know what actually happened, I don't know either of them personally, but I just want these stupid death threats and feminilluminati conspiracy theories to stop.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're really going after "corruption" in gaming journalism, then go after the guys she allegedly slept with.

This. As with any other conflict-of-interest situation, journalistic integrity is the responsibility of the journalist. (Wow, that feels good to type. Thanks for confirming I'm not the only one who's been thinking it.)

[(Anonymous)]

yet nobody's howling about how feminists want to censor and destroy television, movies, or what have you.

Hahahahaaaaa Have you been to /co/?

Yeah she just happened to release another video in the midst of of all this shit. Taking less time to release this one than between all the previous ones. No one noticed until Joss Whedon retweeted it. Most people finding it largely hypocritical that he did considering he uses all the same tropes in his media but it's ok for him I guess because he sometimes says he's a feminist.