“lmao this crowd (gestures to suffragettes) would eat me alive rofl”
“you wanna head out there, ruuuun (waves hands around sarcastically) with the men?”
“you coming with me then, woman/princess???” (to sadie adler)
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im not saying that arthur morgan was portrayed as outright violent towards women, or that he didn’t have genuine moments where he respected women characters, or that he didn’t help some women fight against misogynistic hatred and oppression.
but his words cut deep enough. he’s not progressive at all by our standards. back during the victorian cowboy era, yeah, he’d probably count as respectful towards women.
but in the context of 2018, arthur morgan’s language towards women aren’t acceptable. his gruff and grumpy attitude quickly turns into cheap shots paid towards women sex workers, women activists, and sadie’s frustration.
its casual misogyny. he was literally harassing the women at the saloon. not extensively, sure, but it was harassment nevertheless. and when sadie starts clashing with his fellow gang members, yeah he takes the time to help her, but not without hemming and hawwing.
arthur’s grumpiness doesn’t have to be misogyistic. for example, sadie’s grocery-shopping quest starts off with arthur calling her ‘princess’ and mocking her past life of not being a household maid 24/7. but when the two leave town and go back to camp, his dialogue is just as sarcastic and dry, but without the sexism; he pokes fun at her new outfit being ‘boyish’ without digging at her personally. “Won’t be long before you’re smoking cigars and playing the harmonica”. that’s very different from arthur saying something like, “ooh, you wanna dress like one of the men, now, princess???”
arthur was written by a AAA company, trying to appeal towards a wide audience of modern gamers that have slowly started to evolve from the white straight dudebro stereotype of recent years. i can tell that they didn’t want arthur to be some duke nukem jerk, but they still felt the need to add in some gross language.
i dont own the game myself, being a pc gamer; im currently watching a silent walkthrough of each quest. and i went in thinking arthur was a pure and beautiful sinnamon roll based off of fandom portrayal. call me surprised and pretty disappointed to find out that wasn’t exactly the case.
i just dont want to see people just ignoring arthur’s written language like didn’t happen, or that his language didn’t count as (at least casually) misogynistic at times. because he is misogynistic on occasion.
it’s impossible to satirize Gamer Culture any more than this person seeing a suffragette in a video game and deciding to immediately punch her in the face and then upload it to YouTube entitled “Beating Up Annoying Feminist” where it then proceeds to get over 17,000 likes
Anti feminists: “oh my god you guys, women already have the right to vote, what else do you want?”
today my prof said to my class “you don’t truly love someone until they’ve hurt you and you still think of them as the greatest person in the world. Love is the most violent act.” ok ok ok
men are so fucking weird and scary? don’t let any man ever convince you love is supposed to be painful or violent. don’t let any man justify his wrongful actions by saying they’re just part of what True Love is.
Question: Do boys and girls even mature at difffered rates?
Only when it’s convenient for the people saying it, like when they’re trying to justify being attracted to teenage girls or not holding boys accountable for being creeps.
stop celebrating………………accomplishments of women……in fields that literally hurt, murder and otherwise oppress women…….you are not feminist for flying a drone……or spilling 10 million oil barrels into the ocean…….or heading a company that pays their workers 2 dollars an hour…..you are literally just a capitalist like
Sometimes I purposely have headphones in with no actual music to stop people from trying to talk to me. Enraging.
What incel wrote this article.
This is the only appropriate reaction since he wanna be all up in my face.
Even that image they have, the woman looks SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE. How do you even justify this garbage???
He just assumed a woman will be flattered that he is inconsiderate of her because he calls her a “cutie”. Stop trying to initiate relationships with women who are clearly not looking for conversations.
There is a time and place to attempt to approach a stranger. A bar, a club, a wedding, etc. Some place where people are purposefully mingling and meeting new people. Stopping people wearing headphones on the street is not it.
And I can guarantee you that if you try to hit me up with “wow she’s a cutie” on the street it will not work. -V
Annemunition, a variety streamer who plays games like Rainbow Six, PUBG, God of War, and Overwatch, was playing Rainbow Six in her off time last week, away from the sometimes pressurized environment of her Twitch channel. The people she was playing with had no idea who she was, but they knew she was a woman, and that’s all they needed to know. Over the course of several rounds, they laid into her with a series of increasingly vile insults, calling her everything from “gamer girl” to “tranny bitch.” She continued to play like normal, dying in some rounds and clutching others for her team. When she did well, one guy said she stole his kill. When she did poorly, they used that to justify their attacks. “We’re not being like this because we don’t like women,” said one of the men. “We’re being like this because you’re shit, by the way.”
“Are you playing the right video game, miss?” the same man said later. “This isn’t like League Of Legends where you can just flash your titties on stream. It takes skill.”
“I hope you die,” another man said immediately afterward.
Annemunition kept her cool and finished the game. Then she decided to make an example of the people involved. She posted a video of the incident to her Twitter.
“‘Why don’t you use voice chat?’ ‘Why can’t I find a girlfriend who plays video games?’ ‘Why do you mute people who ask you if you’re a girl?’ Gee, I dunno,” she wrote.
The response was huge. As of now, the video has over half a million views and nearly 2,000 comments, some of which share similar online horror stories. Annemunition told Kotaku in an email that she posted the video to make a point. This is hardly the first time this kind of thing has happened to her, she said, and if it’d been during a stream, she would’ve just muted them. Since she was on her own, though, she decided to see how the situation would play out if she did nothing except make useful comments and help her team.
“As you saw in the video, that’s all it took for them to devolve into toxicity,” she said. “While I understand everyone, of all genders and backgrounds, can often be the subject of toxicity online, I really feel like people underestimate just how bad it can be for women or people who are recognized as ‘other’ over voice comms.”
She added that streamers often feel a pressure to just roll with the punches when it comes to verbal harassment or other serious issues, but she worries about the kind of example that sets.
“I feel like there are a lot of expectations for streamers not to complain about anything ever and that we should just be positive and ‘good vibes’ only,” she said. “When these types of things happen, I just think about all the young people (boys and girls) who experience this type of abuse online and don’t have the tools to stand up for themselves other than to mute people and pretend everything is fine.”
After Annemunition posted the video, one of the players who’d given her gallons of shit tried to apologize. In a sense. “I am extremely sorry for the way you feel, ” he wrote in a tweet from an account that’s since been deleted. “[K]now that the words I used were meaningless and have no substance.”Annemunition, a popular Twitch streamer with over 300,000 followers, was just trying to be a decent teammate and call shots in Rainbow Six Siege. Then, over voice chat, came the questions: “Are you a man or a female?” And the accusations: “You stole my fucking content. You’re shit at the game. Get out.”
“I appreciate that you want to apologize,” Annemunition wrote back. “But man, you went HARD just because you heard a woman’s voice… You called me a ‘fucking tranny bitch’ and told me to kill myself. Over nothing. All I did was exist.” However, she went on to write that she sincerely hopes the guy learns from this and wants to better himself.
“I don’t necessarily want to crucify people when I feel like there’s the potential for them to walk away from the situation thinking ‘Wow, I messed up. I said something really awful and it came back to bite me. I won’t do that again,’” she told Kotaku, explaining why she chose to respond so kindly to an apology that was dodgy at best. “I wanted him to understand the gravity of his actions and the fact that words can be hurtful and that your actions have consequences.”
In online games, she continued, people can tell others to kill themselves and face no real repercussions—or at least, not the sort of repercussions that’d convince them to cork it for more than a handful of matches. Meanwhile, the people being harassed are encouraged—both by their peers and the way many games’ reporting systems work—to just shrug it off in the moment, no matter how much it’s worming under their skin and writhing around.
“Gamers have learned that they can do these things without blowback because the solution so many people suggest is just to mute them and move on,” Annemunition said.
That’s why she decided to post the video, risking even more harassment from eager-to-pounce internet mobs in the process. If nobody creates consequences for this sort of thing that are immediate and consistent, yet also impactful in a way that’ll encourage them to learn rather than doubling down, nothing will change.
“I’m just sick of sweeping this behavior under the rug and pretending it’s all fine and dandy,” she said. “It’s easy to sweep things under the rug; it’s hard to ask people to be better. Especially when so many people are just resigned to accepting the fact that online gaming and toxicity go hand-in-hand.”
“Maybe that makes me a naive fool,” she added, “but I refuse to accept that we can’t treat each other with a little more kindness.”
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