[ SECRET POST #2260 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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Comments

Re: games...

[chardmonster]

There's a huge difference between being violent and being sexist, though. A sexist isn't necessarily going to walk down the street yelling weird things at women; that's apparently what Reddit is for. In contrast, a violent person is going to be violent, which may translate to physical action.

Sexism =/= action.

Also, there is the fact that sexism in video games exists in the context of a sexist culture; video games are sexist, but so is other popular media. The difference is that when people say "video games are making people violent" they tend to be talking about things like school shootings.

When people say "video games are making people sexist," they're talking about gross guys on Reddit. Nobody is saying someone beat his wife because of Samus Aran's character changes. They are saying gross guys feel comfortable being gross.

Re: games...

[(Anonymous)]

Those guys do that anyway, though. They don't need video games to "validate" their behavior, because that's how they are all by themselves.

Re: games...

[sugar_spun]

Thank you, you said it better than I could think it.

In contrast, a violent person is going to be violent, which may translate to physical action.

I think this part is really important. Already violent people might get more violent because of a video game, but I don't think it's more likely that it happens with a video game than it happens when reading the Bible (which has a lot of really violent stuff in it), or watching evening television. It's not causing anything.

But I think it's important to note that if we live in a sexist culture, then sexism in video games enforces all of that. It continues to encourage people to think that way. It sort of nudges out the latent sexism for some people. It's not the only thing in our society that does that, but it's perhaps one of the most egregious ones.

It's a matter of lots of violence being a result of someone who is mentally ill or deranged, where as a completely average person can be sexist. No one is going to shoot up a school because of a video game, because this is not something our society condones in any matter. But sexism is.