Regarding Pragmata I think their train of thought is the following: this sleazy game feeds into the typical male fantasy of being the protector and patriarch of a nuclear family where he is supposedly owed sex, affection, food, services etc. His subjugated wife is the idealized woman who is virtuous and yet hot, basically a personal slut. And it’s not like these dudebros are making any effort to be the supportive, emotionally intelligent, suave etc. male ally that is worthy of a relationship, instead they want to realize their fantasies by curbing women’s freedoms. It’s just terribly gross.
Their other usual grievance, of course, is that toxic males want to appropriate hobbies and cordon them off for women, turning them into their own toxic ghettoized playgrounds.
I'm beginning to think the specific argument isn't the thing and this is the ultimate point. You have a bunch of neurotic ideologues (and, to be fair, people who outright earn a living from adulterating everything with politics) and their victory is forcing you to be as neurotic as they are about it. I'm sure they'd say it was consciousness raising or something but that's what it seems like to me.
In theory you could have just played a game about a child and thought nothing else about it. Instead, you've been forced to do woke philosophy to figure out what the hell drives this stuff.
Unreasonable demands actually work better here. There's always something. The more ridiculous it is the more sensitive you become about everything because everything can be "problematized" and the little woke-model living rent-free in your brain knows that more anodyne things yield more points when problematized.
This struck me during the Snape debacle: people, antiwoke people, were pre-outraged on essentially woke grounds (are we gonna watch some white jocks beat up a black kid??). What better victory than to loom so large in your opponent's mind that they can't escape your ideology and are in a permanent defensive crouch?
There's no winning this once it starts.
Yeah, I'm inclined to believe that the progressive victory was going to happen anyway because it did everywhere else. If anything Gamergate is just the backlash from people who sense something is moving but can't really stop it.
"Go woke, go broke" is probably overrated but gaming seems to be one of the places where it regularly happens, for the same reasons it happens at the top end of the film industry.
Isn't Ireland benefiting from being vastly smaller and from being a low tax location for foreign corporations?
Tanista
29d ago
Dawkins of all fucking people evoking Muslim women while he lectured about how this woman was over-reacting because she was white Westerner was too richly ironic.
Why? The New Atheist position was sincerely paternalistic and progressive. Religion is bad because it oppresses women and once you make that judgment you'd need to be a Motte-style contrarian to not think Muslim women have it worse.
Even with a low in group preference you would think that men would organize jointly on matters that impact all men, like with the evolutionary disadvantage men have when it comes to ensuring paternity.
And, well, this is what they did historically. What we call patriarchy is mostly just a way of managing this problem.
I don't think it can be explained purely by low in group favoritism for that reason.
Convert their kids. Some people already have the illiberal instincts to justify this.
I'm sure the state can do plenty of things to try to suppress fertility. We've arguably mastered that trick by accident.
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