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BoneSnapDeez wrote: This is like someone complaining about public transit that's always late and having someone respond with "well why don't you just build your own bus?"

Or someone complaining about poor service in a restaurant and having someone else say "well why don't you just become a chef and open your own?"

It's not an argument or a rebuttal. It's a lazy dismissal.
Once again, this is a joke and is not suppose to taken seriously.
What I find most telling is that virtually all the fedora'd young men creating "response" videos/rants/etc to Anita S. have no ammunition except this bullshit and other old saws: she's not a real gamer, it's not her own footage, she doesn't really play video games, etc. Anything to avoid the issue at hand, amirite?
I will agree that some of them are just sexist asshats but not all of them are. Some have valid points like that her videos are very propaganda-esque. She loves to pull things out of context and crop the picture to fit her interest. This then leads these "fedora'd young men" so assume she's not very knowledgeable or more commonly used "not a gamer". The whole stolen footage thing is just the cherry on top.
(by the way, the fact that one must be some sort of "social justice warrior" to find merit in her work is totally bogus)
Same way how anyone who apposes Ms. Sarkeesian must be a fedora'd young man, amirite?
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Didn't oxymoron say that it was a joke? What if he does agree with Anita, but found this specific image funny for some reason?

There's a difference between having a discussion with someone about a joke you didn't agree with (possibly over PM) and lambasting someone for a page or more on a forum because of a single image that he doesn't even believe in in the first place.

It was a joke. Offended? Bring it up with the joker. Not offended? Let's post some more images and move on.

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BoneSnapDeez wrote:
oxymoron wrote:Addressed to SJW's: Please don't take this too seriously

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This is like someone complaining about public transit that's always late and having someone respond with "well why don't you just build your own bus?"

Or someone complaining about poor service in a restaurant and having someone else say "well why don't you just become a chef and open your own?"

It's not an argument or a rebuttal. It's a lazy dismissal.

What I find most telling is that virtually all the fedora'd young men creating "response" videos/rants/etc to Anita S. have no ammunition except this bullshit and other old saws: she's not a real gamer, it's not her own footage, she doesn't really play video games, etc. Anything to avoid the issue at hand, amirite?

(by the way, the fact that one must be some sort of "social justice warrior" to find merit in her work is totally bogus)
I couldn't have said it better myself. Regardless of whether you agree with Anita's points or not, shutting down discussion of her work based on hand-waving and technicalities is cowardly and intellectually lazy.

These trolls think that try to shut down the women in games debate before it even starts think we want to "take away games for men", which doesn't even make any sense, and would never, ever happen.

Also, Oxy, whether or not it was a joke is besides the point, and that's not a good reason to stop discussion.
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lisalover1 wrote: Also, Oxy, whether or not it was a joke is besides the point, and that's not a good reason to stop discussion.
These discussions quickly snowball into a full blown flame war. I was just trying to prevent that.

Example:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 44&t=46674
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oxymoron wrote:
lisalover1 wrote: Also, Oxy, whether or not it was a joke is besides the point, and that's not a good reason to stop discussion.
These discussions quickly snowball into a full blown flame war. I was just trying to prevent that.

Example:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 44&t=46674
That's true and well-precedented, so I suppose I can respect that.
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oxymoron wrote: These discussions quickly snowball into a full blown flame war. I was just trying to prevent that.

Example:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 44&t=46674
Maybe you should have thought of that before you posted something that could be seen as inflammatory.
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Hobie-wan wrote:
oxymoron wrote: These discussions quickly snowball into a full blown flame war. I was just trying to prevent that.

Example:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 44&t=46674
Maybe you should have thought of that before you posted something that could be seen as inflammatory.
But then he wouldn't be an oxymoron. :P
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AppleQueso wrote:fuck it i'm not gonna do this here and now I've got too much crap to deal with
Please calm down. I'm not dismissing what Sarkeesian is saying. I just thought that particular exchange was funny.

I do have issues with her work, but it's not because of the subject. I don't think she's actually doing a very good job at talking about female image in media. But, I also recognize her videos aren't meant for ME, they're meant for truly oblivious individuals whom are not even aware that its an issue.

Anyway, someone put actual Mike Tyson quotes into Punch-Out!!

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Those Mike Tyson quotes are quite something.

This lettering looks familiar ... but I can't quite place it ... :lol:
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