re: #204 Targetpractice

So even if the situations were equal, a male and female spokesperson for a private company issuing equally venomous statements to followers and receiving equally venomous responses…you’d still feel the guy having his position as a spokesperson yanked would be okay because of other male gamers being misogynist assholes?

1) I’m still not sure Cattuzzo’s statement calling men ‘trash’ approaches ‘venomous’ in the way it happened.

2) That’s just the thing, this stuff isn’t happening in a vacuum. If this was a man doing this, the misogynistic behavior it would encourage would be far larger in scale than any supposed ‘misandrist’ behavior Cattuzzo’s statement did (hell, it seemed to stir up the misogynistic crowd anyhow).

3) Female gamer crowds already face a lot of shit, from dumb gendered appeals by companies to the harassment and venom in gaming communities. A male spokesperson or sponsored influencer going out with dumb statement like that, even without much prior history, can easily threaten a company’s outreach toward female customers if it’s seen as encouraging that kind of behavior. There’s no equivalent threat of turning off male customers wholesale from a sponsored female influencer making this kind of statement.

There’s no real point in trying to come out with hypothetical equivalent scenarios, because the playing fields aren’t anywhere equal at all. It’s the same kind of shit like with people online casting doubt on sexual harassment victims, up to and including insults like ‘bitch’ and ‘slut’, only to cry out about man-hating when women call out men in general for this kind of encouraged behavior. If the playing fields were equal, there might be a point, but they are so absolutely not level.