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[–]SadCritters 278 ポイント279 ポイント  (120子コメント)

I think there's a really important quote from her in this article that sheds a bit of light on this entire "I'm a woman getting rape threats constantly" thing that's been going on for months now and is used by a certain sect of people that corresponds to the "internet shield":

“A while ago, I realised that a lot of the people who send disgusting or overly sexual comments to me over the internet aren’t adult males,” Pearce told The Guardian. "It turns out that mostly they’re young boys and the problem is they don’t know any better, so responding to them rationally didn’t resolve the situation. And it got to the point where their comments were starting to make me feel really uncomfortable.”

I want to put extreme emphasis on this part even though I know it will be overlooked by sensationalists.

A while ago, I realised that a lot of the people who send disgusting or overly sexual comments to me over the internet aren’t adult males,

I think it's pretty interesting that she made a point to state this; when she could have easily done the same thing that every other female critic has done thus far: Lump all males into a stereotype and denounce the term "gamer".

Kudos to her. She handled this well and was intelligent enough to find the correct way to word her frustrations instead of "all [insert way to describe a person here] are [insert negative attribute about sect of people]"...(You know...The exact same thing that a lot of female critics are saying males need to stop doing....but they apparently don't seem to mind themselves doing it?)---Unlike a lot of her peers. So honestly, she has my praise. She realized where the threats were coming from and did well to deal with them.

EDIT: Apparently someone believes I am stating ""all women think men are rapists". I'm not. I'm talking about a very small group of people that have chosen to be very outspoken on this social matter and have taken towards the same narrative. There's obviously a distinction being made between people, as I'm recognizing that Alanah Pearce is in a minority group---As I stated already by talking about how refreshing it was that she saw a distinction between the types of males sending these kinds of messages. I apologize if it appears as there's no distinction---But there is. Not every female is a critic. We're only talking about critics here. That's why I chose the wording I chose:

every other female critic

I'd like to stress this subsection of people:

critic

It's a pretty important distinction along the same lines of separating adult males from younger males. I was under the assumption that would be understood since that's what we're talking about...Making distinctions between the entire gender bracket and a subsection of it, but /u/ChiefGrayPaw has brought to my attention via angry-words that it's not and I'm apparently some kind of bigot for using the majority argument presented by said social commentary-makers....even though /u/ChiefGrayPaw goes on to make the exact same argument I presented via the same majority/minority subset of female critics.

[–]ChiefGraypaw 448 ポイント449 ポイント  (43子コメント)

Surely you must see the hypocrisy in this.

... when she could have easily done same thing that every other female critic has done thus far: Lump all males into a stereotype and denounce the term "gamer".

Dude you're literally lumping every female game critic into a stereotype.

[–]ilikeeatingbrains 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Can someone tell me what to think? I don't know what the hivemind wants.

[–]derpcaptain -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I was with him until that statement.

It looks like he's pretty mad at you for calling him out...

[–]Solumindra -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

He isn't wrong.

[–]Tonkarz 180 ポイント181 ポイント  (16子コメント)

I think it's pretty interesting that she made a point to state this; when she could have easily done the same thing that every other female critic has done thus far: Lump all males into a stereotype and denounce the term "gamer".

Is that supposed to be satire? You can't be serious.

[–]CitizenEx 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (10子コメント)

What do you call it when it's satire except the speaker doesn't know it?

[–]skushi08 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ignorance.

[–]cookedbread 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or reddit gold.

[–]Tonkarz 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Reverse Poe's Law?

[–]CitizenEx 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Irony, I think:-)

[–]timemachine_GO 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

that would be a by the book definition. the term irony has sadly lost almost all efficacy now that it's loosely thrown around to refer to all things remotely layered or self-aware. I suppose that misappropriation in itself is ironic.

[–]ynwestrope 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sad.

[–]band_ofthe_hawk92 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I believe this is a form of irony, but I may be mistaken.

[–]mrbooze 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Punditry?

[–]Alwayscheyenne 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Surely a subset of Poe's Law?

[–]girlseekstribe -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Irony?

[–]Jatexi 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

[–]Tonkarz 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The joke in that scene is that one character mistook "surely" for "Shirley". I didn't say either word.

[–]squirrelrampage -5 ポイント-4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/kotakuinaction has been leaking again.

[–]pr1sm828 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (19子コメント)

Another thing that stood out to me was:

"It turns out that mostly they’re young boys and the problem is they don’t know any better..."

I wonder why they don't know any better? Bad parenting, perhaps?

[–]anomalous_cowherd 78 ポイント79 ポイント  (8子コメント)

A large part of how kids learn is to do something and find out it's wrong.

Because the parents aren't involved in the online community they don't see it and so don't steer the kids right.

Some sort of feedback mechanism could make a big difference here.

[–]xenospork 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's why I have a lot of hope for my kid's generation. We actually get the internet and games etc etc, and will hopefully engage with our kids in this way. I fully plan to play video games with my kids e.g., so I will actually be able to teach them about the inherent dangers both of their own communication, and how others try to communicate with them.

[–]chipperpip 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, except you're going to be completely in the dark about all the stuff going on on the peer-to-peer NeuralHoloNet.

What, you've never heard of it? Good luck.

[–]gaarasgourd 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

so don't steer the kids right.

The kids know better, but they're just airing out their inner-demons. Not very many, if any at all, kids would dare make a rape threat if their parents were even in the same room as them.

So they know it's wrong, but they do it anyway because there are no legitimate consequences.

[–]kindakinda 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Some sort of feedback mechanism

I think they call that "a whoopin" where I come from.

[–]Sharkictus 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Somehow, 360 no scoping over and over again isn't doing it. .

[–]LvS -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Kids don't give a shit about their parents. Otherwise they wouldn't do drugs and instead study for good grades.

Kids give a shit about their peers. They want to impress the people on the internet. They send rape threats because their online friends think it's cool to send them.

So it's our job to make sure people we know on the Internet don't send rape threats to anyone.

[–]Solumindra 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

It isn't my job to be anything other than an upstanding person, what another person does/doesn't do isn't my job, nor reflective on me. Honestly, you can keep spouting about X and Y but it doesn't ever stop behavior. Probation didn't stop people from drinking, banning kids will never stop kids from being trolls.

[–]LvS 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

what another person does/doesn't do isn't my job, nor reflective on me.

Yes it is. If you surround yourself with a certain kind of people, those people rub off on you and vice versa. And so do the actions of you and those people.

It's why rape threats are okay on the Internet but not at the thanksgiving dinner: People at the thanksgiving dinner will act on it, on the Internet we all just shrug.

[–]Guy9000 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I wonder why they don't know any better?

The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

The Online Disinhibition Effect

With respect to bad behavior, users on the Internet can frequently do or say as they wish without fear of any kind of meaningful reprisal

People say these things because they can get away with it. They have no fear of being punched in the mouth for saying fucked up things.

[–]Pleecu 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think kids fully understand the seriousness of certain situations and that leads them to indifference and ignorance. They're kids, dumb little meatbags you have to teach not to touch a hot stove. They need to be taught the consequences of making these threats and committing these crimes as well was the compassion to understand how terrible of a crime it is.

[–]InUrFridge 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Honestly, I think they just don't appreciate the enormity of what they're saying; if a fourteen year old kid doesn't properly appreciate what sex is then how are they going to understand rape? To them they're just words.

I don't think the issue is bad parenting so much as lack of education.

[–]Blackbeard_ 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

The culture.

[–]Arntor1184 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (2子コメント)

This just has to be it. I was a little fucker who did and said awful things not too long ago in my past, but I never used rape as a threat.. most I ever did was use it to describe to my friends how horribly I was beating them at Halo or Tekken. The culture of the internet has always had a strong representation of anonymity which is at its core a good thing, but what we ended up with is a lot of really horrible people using that as a shield to get away with doing/saying things that there is no way anyone would ever do/say to someone face to face. As time moved on this became more the norm than a subsect and has overtime bled into the mainstream where now we have 9 year old kids telling me about how they fucked my mom and such without fear of repercussion despite me having information to report them with. This above all else is the one thing I would like to see stamped out before it goes further. It is a dangerous line to be on and I sincerely hope we do not go much further across than we already have as a society.

[–]Pleecu 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I disagree, kids are dumb and need to be taught that things are bad. These are the same little bastards that need to be taught not to eat poop, touch hot irons, jump off of balconies, ride down the stairs in a suitcase, etc. They've got a new method of acting out, we've just not learned how to stop them yet.

[–]Harold76 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

ride down the stairs in a suitcase

I always used couch cushions.

[–]timemachine_GO 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

They of course have a role as interpreter, authority figure and general 'control valve' of the deluge of stimuli but truth is that TV, internet and the general 'culture' they encounter on a day to day basis is far more responsible. What is more oft repeated and thus echoed in the social interactions of a kid day to day? Some dusty old lesson his dad gave him or dat meme?

This is why 'rape culture' is a term that has a lot of merit. Granted, it has a sort of reactionary and simple minded sense to it. A seeming lack of nuance I guess. Regardless of the nomenclature, I think there's some truth to the idea that it's worth pointing at the intersection of social attitudes, pressures, memes, circulating language and images that foster the prototypical sensibilities that end up informing scumbaggery like rape denial, justification and even the act itself as shaped by flippancy towards basic social boundaries.

Too bad you have the loudest voices on the internet doing nothing to make a case for themselves. Inarticulate femi-tweens and the opacity of the intellectually motivated providing the straw-men fodder for proto-misogynists to lament over, the latter doing nothing to avail themselves of their very conformation to the very terms they protest against and the former simply adding nails to the coffin of their nebulous movement.

TLDR: It's as much bad parenting as it is bad society/culture. Rad fems and reactionary red pill types are only making things worse.

[–]Kiltmanenator 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory?

[–]Bananasauru5rex 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think it's pretty interesting that she made a point to state this; when she could have easily done the same thing that every other female critic has done thus far: Lump all males into a stereotype and denounce the term "gamer"

Let me comment not on the incredible amount of careful research you would have to do in order to figure out what "every other female critic has done thus far" (you're talking about 100% of women game critics since the beginning of game criticism- I'll let you decide which kind of "logical argument" that is).

Let me only comment on the fact that the majority of death/rape threats that women journalists bring up are anonymous. Therefore, there is no "tracing their facebook" or "finding their mother."

Most importantly, there's no way to find out their age. You're asserting that "every other female critic" is part of some large conspiracy where they're actively covering up the truth about rape and death threats, as if they know they're all coming from kids and pretending they're coming from adults. I don't think you need me to explain that they haven't commented on the age of the harassers because they, simply put, don't know the age of the harassers. I also don't think you need me to explain that when she says most are young teenagers, many are still older teens and 20-30+ year olds (and so we have to be careful of lumping the harassers all together as "kids" at our own risk).

Finally, I would challenge your shallow distinction and ask you to provide evidence of a critic who is a woman who actually says "all men are blank" or even "all gamers are blank." Apparently, you should be able to find hundreds of instances. This is the epitome of a straw defense, and really is an example of deep hypocrisy: you're upset that "all women say all men are bad! But not all men are bad!"

[–]IHaveSpecialEyes 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank God the male population has you to defend it from the generalization of critics, because really what this article was needing was a neckbeard shouting "NOT ALL MEN!" at the top of his lungs.

[–]zinc_finger 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This again? Really?

[–]chipperpip 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

every other female critic

That's still way too broad, the fact that you can't see that makes you sound like an idiot.

[–]Jumbso 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Jesus christ, reddit really eats this shit up, don't they?

There's EVIDENCE of ADULT males doing this to the "PROMINENT FEMALE CRITICS".

Get over it. Maybe if you were the victim of an online harassment campaign you'd stop having terrible attitudes like this one.

[–]H2Awesome 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

#NotAllGamers

[–]srsiswonderful -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

#DamselsForHire

[–]MewKazami -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

"all women think men are rapists".

Edit women to internet feminists and you got a really good point.

[–]Ragnalypse -5 ポイント-4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's sad that we're patting her on the back for such a basic level of analysis.

[–]baardson -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have never seen a more worthy post receive gold. Beautifully fucking written.