I wonder how some of these people respond to being told to fuck off if they think his tweet was him going mental...
You need to learn a lot about subtext.
Sugarcoating your mansplaining doesn't make it any less insidious. Complaining that a woman won't sit still while you defecate all over her is pretty poor form.
As I said before, other developers at Arenanet were targeted by Gamer Gate and were protected by the company and weren't fired.
To me the mansplainy part is in the way he explains he has a disagreement. Would you agree?
Once companies got a handle on understanding GG, they stopped taking them seriously for the most part, but some have thought they no longer existed. I remember hearing some podcaster suggest that because they weren't trending highly on Google that they didn't exist anymore, which is silly.
How is he throwing a tantrum or overreacting? He just said he was disappointed and literally backed off.
He felt offended at the passive agressive remark, oh the nerve he has, and then this deceitful master even apologised and backed out. All according to keikaku to get his favorite writer fired.
no, you're missing a subtext where it's incredibly obvious.
That's the thing, nobody really brought up the issue of women in the industry but herself. She was needlessly snarky about it, too. I could've gone and just said "Thanks for your feedback!" or whatever or just not reply at all. Not that hard to do, really. But she chose to be hostile. Which is weird, because Price was very informative and polite during the AMA. She gave some great insights about the game's story/processes.
Is that what mansplaining really is? I mean I get it, having some feedback shoved into your face out of nowhere like that can be annoying, but that kind of comment wouldn't be any different if Price was a guy.
I'd say let us respectfully disagree, but that would mostlikely be perceived as deceitful and me throwing a tantrum.
Please don't put words in my mouth. That's not helpful to either of us.
Yeah, it blows my mind that people now think she didn't even make a mistake. Personally I think it was an overreaction that she was fired, but it's clear as day that she was in the wrong here.
Sites like Polygon and Waypoint are doing their best to frame the whole thing this way, basically ignoring reality. It's gross af.
If I may ask, do you think the fact that some assholes use that excuse means that we should never question game journalism ethics?
You may as well close every forum ever (Including this one), because it's full of "condescending" people constantly criticizing developers or disagreeing with their choices.
How is him literally *retracting his previous statement* him persistently demanding an answer? Almost as soon as things blew up he distanced himself from things and I really don't get how you're painting that as someone acting so entitled. He accepted he wasn't going to get an answer and backed off
That whole garbage doesn't mean games journalism should be free from criticism.
Yeah. Like MikeO said this in his statement:
Because it demonstrably did not happen? I mean, they tried with Arkane and you can see the glorious success.
That she considers "Social/financial consequences are FREE SPEECH WORKING AS INTENDED." is a bit ironic
