SmokeAndMirrors
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One study was posted and whatever is at clickbatemarysuegarbagedump.
The one posted had a sample size of approximately 100ish people.
When there are millions of game players of various genre's of games and at various ages.
You can't really point to that and say, see "muh sexism."
Hell name calling and internet threats are not really evident of any "ism," unless being an idiot or troll, is an "ism."
Then after all that, you have to sort through, who is actually an "ism" and who is actually just trolling for lulz.
If you'd bother to read anything, you'd see how they controlled for that when comparing the sexes.
There is nothing "hard" about being a feminist in a developed nation.
It's often nothing but superficial virtue signaling, like putting an aids ribbon on your facebook.
Depends what you're doing. Being a feminist who focuses on reproductive rights is still very dangerous in America. I've been assaulted in that line of work, and I know many other people who have too.
Although I disagree with lesbian feminism as a theory, a lot of them get assaulted too. Lesbians, feminist or not, get assaulted even more often than straight women when they're in places society still think of as "male," often through "corrective rape," which is especially common in the military.
There are lots of other examples. If you're doing this work seriously, no, it's not always safe, even in the developed world.
But beyond that, there are a lot of serious feminists in the developed world whose primary focus is actually helping the developing world. Radfems especially, as a matter of fact.
I'm not necessarily attacking you, I'm certainly attacking the belief that sexism is pervasive in "gaming."
The whole issue has been muddied by impropriety on both sides of the issue.
Yes gamers/youtube gamers have been doxxed, swatted and harassed by alleged feminists, for disagreeing.
The numbers say women get attacked disproportionately. There's nothing muddy about this. And the vast majority of that is not coming from "feminists." It's coming from sexists, who mostly seem to be men, although a not-insubstantial number of women may also be participating.
The problem is that we don't get a clear message of which "feminism" is addressing the issue.
We get told that men objectify women, by liking the way they look and even some of the more extreme consider that rape.
We then get told that women embracing their sexuality is fine, even though men are told they are wrong for theirs.
You(feminism) don't send a clear message, it's often contradictory and easily mocked for it.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No feminist ever has said anything like that to you, or anywhere I've ever seen in 10 years of activism -- even the looniest ones.
Feminists may say men who leer at women, follow them around, catcall them, are objectifying them. Correctly. All people look at anything that catches their attention, including the exceptionally attractive. Those of us who are mature adults have learned to respect others by not glowering at them, or bothering them.
This is, like, kindergarten-level manners. We all learn this the first time we see someone in a wheelchair. That so many men are still whining about the supposed complexity of basic lessons in decency that most 5-year-olds have figured out is just ridiculous.
You don't have difficulty understanding it. You just refuse to acknowledge that the onus is on you to have basic manners. That no one else is responsible for how you treat women, but you.
And this is the problem. There are still substantial numbers of people arguing that women are responsible for men mistreating them, and the rejection of that should be even louder than it is, if anything.
I read the first, but out of principle I cannot help generate revenue and clicks to sites I do not and will not support.
The mary sue is one of them.
If you aren't going to read stuff, don't make up a bunch of **** in place of refusing to do the research.
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