I feel like the way people talk about Zoe is a good barometer for how seriously they need to be taken when discussing games, honestly.
Someone who, by her own admission knows nothing about games, goes out of her way to repeatedly talk about how Zoe's game, which by her own admission she did not play, is "dreadful" while understanding everything that happened to that developer was nightmarishly out of proportion to a woman making a deeply personal indie game so people could better understand how she felt and was in no way her fault.
Why? Because Zoe cannot go unscathed? Because even understanding GG was pure distilled misogyny that was not in any way justified or warranted, we still need to give her a little passive-aggressive kick on our way out the door to reaffirm the pecking order?
That aside, I think some of the articles she wrote gave me the idea she might have some interesting observations about the--forgive me--"adult" Left online, who appear (at least to me, as an outsider) to be backed into a corner rhetorically and strategically, and she might have possible strategies for extraction.
So, I may have misunderstood the scope of the work.
I feel when one blames Tumblrites and collegiates they are essentially blaming young women. I might be extrapolating unfairly, but this is a familiar song and dance. Because women, especially young women, are totally the worst, right? Yet boys will be boys. The inequity of blame never stops.
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Date: 2017-06-15 11:32 am (UTC)Someone who, by her own admission knows nothing about games, goes out of her way to repeatedly talk about how Zoe's game, which by her own admission she did not play, is "dreadful" while understanding everything that happened to that developer was nightmarishly out of proportion to a woman making a deeply personal indie game so people could better understand how she felt and was in no way her fault.
Why? Because Zoe cannot go unscathed? Because even understanding GG was pure distilled misogyny that was not in any way justified or warranted, we still need to give her a little passive-aggressive kick on our way out the door to reaffirm the pecking order?
That aside, I think some of the articles she wrote gave me the idea she might have some interesting observations about the--forgive me--"adult" Left online, who appear (at least to me, as an outsider) to be backed into a corner rhetorically and strategically, and she might have possible strategies for extraction.
So, I may have misunderstood the scope of the work.
I feel when one blames Tumblrites and collegiates they are essentially blaming young women. I might be extrapolating unfairly, but this is a familiar song and dance. Because women, especially young women, are totally the worst, right? Yet boys will be boys. The inequity of blame never stops.