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I will share. Only with you, tho. Only with you.

That’s why you’re the best.

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Off in the JUNGLE. Collecting ancient and rare artifacts! And dreaming of beautiful robot butts.

Oh man, that sounds like the dream. Please let me know if you ever find any hot robot butts and then share the goods.

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CHAI

I SEE YOU THERE

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I can't say in the years of my experience in the industry including a internship at sony, that I've ever encountered the misogyny people say game studios have. I really haven't. Not condoning the Quinn abuse stuff but I want to speak up for studios.

That's your experience and that's fair enough, but there are enough people who haven't been so lucky that this is a discussion that needs to happen. I know people who work in the industry too, and they've also been lucky enough not to personally experience these issues, but that doesn't mean that they're not there.

The fact that the white, cishet male "community" that thinks it's at the heart of gaming has reacted in such an utterly vile manner, purely because a handful of women are attempting to initiate that discussion, is in itself an enormous indicator of why that discussion is so entirely necessary. That's all this is, some women have attempted to initiate a discussion. They haven't done a damned thing but suggest that we as gamers consider the issues of sexism, racism, transphobia, etc., and the response they get is rape and death threats, doxxings and massive online smear campaigns being orchestrated against them. The people performing these disgusting acts are the people that the studios are catering to, and that's why studios need to stop being passive about this, too. If you do nothing in a situation of oppression, you take the side of the oppressor. 

I know you want to speak up for studios, but please don't fall into the trap of shouting "NOT ALL STUDIOS!!!" and deflecting attention away from the discussions that need to happen. "NOT ALL ______!!!" is a terrible argument in any case, I'm sure you already know that. 

This is a problem, and in telling the women who are putting themselves at considerable risk to make sure this discussion happens that they are somehow the problem, instead of the people who are threatening them and endangering them and trying to shut them down, is only making it that much harder for gaming to move forwards as a pastime and as an industry.

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