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A comment on Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious online attacks. Parent comment

Re:Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious on... by parfe on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:03PM (#4230415)
>It is not like we force women who are offended by video game media and the community to play games. If they really dislike it and hate the community, just play single player games or don't play at all.

If just blows my mind that someone can harbor an opinion like this. Women playing games like Halo need to keep their gender a secret or risk being bombarded with constant threats of rape, being called a bitch or a cunt and then finding their inbox filled with pictures of dicks.

And you come in here protecting horrible men for acting in such cruel ways by telling the victims it is their fault for daring to step into a man's world?

How about telling the guys to stop being rude, cruel, vindictive and downright perverted?

Frankly I'm surprised you weren't too embarrassed to submit that post.

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Re:Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious on... by DungFu on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:06PM (#4230433)
If history and religion are any evidence of this, telling people to not be aggressive and violent will literally get you nowhere. Either ignoring these people or making your own communities where such actions are not allowed is probably the only viable options.
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Re:Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious on... by slantyyz on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:16PM (#4230507)
> If history and religion are any evidence of this, telling people to not be aggressive and violent will literally get you nowhere.

Yeah, what were Ghandi and Martin Luther King thinking?

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Re:Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious on... by kstenerud on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @04:28PM (#4231292)
They were thinking of ways to erode the peoples' support of the current regime, using non-violent means. That's very different from simply telling people "don't be aggressive or violent."
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