Every time?
UN Women on Twitter is so stupid.
I’ve “called out” @UN_Women’s sexist behavior several times. Fat lot of good it did me.
Only yesterday they behaved sexistly.
No, why we fight is not the same “no matter what our gender is.” If you say it is you’re saying there’s no need for feminism, and that, given the realities, is intensely sexist. Tell women in Afghanistan that “why we fight is the same.”
We want sex equality. “Gender” has become a tool for sneaking men in through the back door.
Am I? Even if I don’t agree that men can be women?
Yeah, it’ll go to 50% of executives are women but they’ll all in reality be autogynephiles. I’d hazard that 46% number also includes a lot of AGPs and people pretending that playing Candy Crush (or the 2022 equivalent) makes you a gamer. On top of that it’s such a KenDiAngelo way of looking at the world.
So playing the games which mostly men like to play makes someone a gamer, but playing the games which mostly women like to play doesn’t make someone a gamer? I would call that assertion pretty sexist.
Hear, hear. Applause. This has long been a thorn in my side. If they are games, they are games. Period. (But are trans games games? I am confused on that point.)
Tigger and inklast, agreed. Pretty much if the game is non-violent ‘hard core’ gamers don’t regard you as a gamer, even if millions of people love the game. Even getting some of them to sniffily admit that it is a game can be hard.
I think in their heads it’s the difference between a Gamer playing a Game and a nobody playing.
“Gamer” is a tribe or title, that’s what it means. Boundary setting. Candy Crush is a game, but mobile games are a whole different kettle of fish than all that came before. Making the category “woman” more inclusive hasn’t exactly shaken out well has it?
I agree with BKiSA@5; while there is certainly prejudice about “games girls like to play” versus “games boys like to play”, Candy Crush is a mobile game, not generally a category that comes to mind for considering someone a “gamer”. There are violent mobile games. and they are also not relevant, at least in my view.
I see that this question comes up in the gaming community, with some disagreement. The author of the linked article does think that mobile game players can be considered gamers, and he provides a couple of interesting opinions on the categories of games and categories of gamers.
I see, too, that this other article would advise me to “grow the hell up” and would consider any players of any games to be “gamers”. This article has some interesting things to say about women vs men:
These are categories I recognize from the games I and my kids used to play. Mobile cuts across these categories. So maybe I’m wrong, and need to “grow the hell up”; I’ll consider it.
Pish posh, Sackbut. “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” – C. S. Lewis. At least, that’s the excuse I use.
Not sure that I count as a gamer anymore since I’ve only swapped out a video card in the past four years, but I’m still an obsessive weirdo so that might count. That’s identity for you…