1. Feminism and intersectionality are actively pushing into these hobbies and demanding they change. This is an unnatural and undeserving co-opting of the hobby.
2. When people say “can we not have politics in X” its because the politics are neither unbiased, nor subtle. They are hamfisted attempts by the people in charge to put their own politics into the hobby, to turn the hobby into a medium to push their politics and ideology, rather than to make it about the hobby itself.
3. People are telling you to shut up because this conversation has been had and it has been proven time and time again that the injection of social justice into geek hobbies and fandoms kills it. To the point where we now have a catchphrase for it: “Get Woke, Go Broke”.
You know what issues I have with social justice, beyond what I listed above? As a lesbian who has played tabletop, who loved Star Wars, loves fantasy and video games and all forms of geek media.
I get pissed off when social justice types barge into a hobby where I was treated as an equal and shitting it up. They patronize me, they infantalize me. And they throw my passion for these things because they use women like me as a battering ram to try and get their ideology pushed in, making women and lesbians like myself feel like infiltrators. Because you have hordes of dyed haired, problem glasses wearing feminists jumping into the hobby, shrieking about how it needs to change and, once they’ve destroyed the hobby, move on like a swarm of locusts.
And WORST of all, we have white knighting dipshits who take their word as gospel and parrot their bullshit. They erase my presence, saying how noninclusive the hobby is. They act as if women can’t be tough enough to handle video game banter. They act like we don’t like sexy women as our avatars.
The reason we’re sick of this shit is because we’ve been lied about, told to shut up and if we fucking refuse we get labeled as racists, sexists or homophobes, despite LOTS of us being part of the LGBT, being women or not white.
They’re unwelcome because they’re cunts.