Feminism Thread

[Charismatic]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...48&pnref=story

18k shares in the past 5 hours. girl posts a video talking about: "If your nigga gives u a black eye , he LOvES U ! U better stay with him"

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLOOO OOOOOOLLLLLLLLL. I hope she's massive attention whoring.

This reeks of attention whoring. I know there's crazy people out there but... WHAT?

[Mazmaz]

Is @SwiftOnSecurity actually Taylor Swift?

[Aleth]

Julien Blanc: UK denies visa to 'pick-up artist'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30119100

[Pirian]

Voltaire has something to say on this matter, I think.

[Priran]

He should say he's Muslim and plans to teach people how to pick up children, they'll let him right in.

[Priran]

Even feminists are starting to hate feminism!

The Guardian: "Feminism is in danger of becoming toxic"

The “ban this sick filth” approach is starting to look more like censorship than progressive politics. Political protest and heated debate has been replaced with a witch-hunt mentality.

It would appear we have forgotten how to target institutions. The tactic du jour is to wind up a crowd and shut down any nuanced discussion or debate. Patriarchy is being left to its own devices while bad and unpalatable men are being taken to task one by one.

Last year more than 20 student unions in the UK banned Robin Thicke’s song Blurred Lines, which was widely thought to glamorise rape, forbidding the playing of the song at functions within union spaces. But when University College London held events at which gender segregation was enforced, at the request of the Islamic Student Society, a National Union of Students delegate at King’s College London said that “gender segregation should be respected, if not tolerated, in institutions of higher education”.

Identity politics and the emergence of feminist preciousness – the tendency towards putting trigger warnings on everything and wrapping each other in cotton wool – has translated into a disproportionate focus on individuals who offend, rather than the culture that allows them to do so. That lyrics could be a more legitimate feminist target than universities that support gender apartheid is depressing.

It is hugely important to hold abusive men to account, but we feminist campaigners have learned that the state allows men to perpetrate individual crimes, and have therefore tended to focus on making root and branch change. Lately we appear to have gone backwards. It is as though we have lost the strength and confidence to effectively challenge institutions.

Moral superiority and “call out” culture has trumped political activism. Feminists have a proud history of taking state institutions and corporations to task. It would seem this is being lost in a sea of vitriol. We built this movement on a desire and willingness to question and challenge old assumptions and truisms. We are in danger of becoming autocrats who would rather organise a pile-on than try to change systems. The life blood of feminism is in danger of becoming bile.

[GoggleHead]

Feminism has been toxic for years now. Good to see more people are catching up.

[Teryu]

The Fine Young Capitalists have an interesting post about the Barbie programming book thing.

God was once approached by a scientist who said, “Listen God, we’ve decided we don’t need you anymore. These days we can clone people, transplant organs and do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous.”

God replied, “Don’t need me huh? How about we put your theory to the test. Why don’t we have a competition to see who can make a human being, say, a male human being.”

The scientist agrees, so God declares they should do it like he did in the good old days when he created Adam.

“Fine,” says the scientist as he bends down to scoop up a handful of dirt.”

“Whoa!” says God, shaking his head in disapproval. “Not so fast. You get your own dirt.” - Source: unknown

Yet again we are having problems with the Indie game a vocal member of the indie game community… and for some reason Barbie… and I think we have to explain something.

There is this mythical idea that a single person can create a video game. When people imagine an artist they imagine a painter at the canvas gleefully creating a world from his mind, completely in control of the content. In the same way, they see a video game designer maniacally typing code into a computer to make the game appear in front of them with only their imagination to guide them. This is not completely correct.

The point of civilization was so that people could take on specialized roles in society. An artist can survive as an artist because people pay them to create art. Sometimes they paint for themselves, but in the modern world they are often selling their services as part of a larger production. Sometimes it’s commercials, sometimes it’s video games, sometimes it’s television and sometimes it’s for you. But just as a painter isn’t required to make their own canvas, or for that matter their own paints, a video game designer rarely does everything on their game. For example, Antichamber is often referred to as a game created by a single person, Alexander Bruce, but in reality he had help from an artist and a musician to create assets for the game.

But more than that Alexander Bruce did not code the engine for the game. He used the Unreal 3 engine, which is an adaptation of the Unreal engine, which was created 16 years ago. The Unreal and it’s subsequent updates took hundreds of thousand of man hours, by some of the best programmers ever to grace this planet to get to the stage it is now. And to make that engine those programmers needed to use tools that collectively took billions of hours to create. In the end all video games are the culmination of thousands of people, mostly faceless and behind the scenes.

None of this limits the quality of the game, or Alexander Bruce contribution to the medium.


In reality most professional artist in the world, work for other people.

Lola, for instance, the director on this production worked for many people in many different jobs. She designed motion graphic for MTV, she’s directed games for children’s television networks in South America, and she’s directed special effect for television commercial and shows. But Lola doesn’t do her own coding for the video game, as do multiple other video game directors. Tim Shafter, for instance, joked about how he hadn’t programmed for years in this trailer for Hack N’ Slash.

Danielle isn’t involved in the day to day decision of making the game, mostly because it’s boring, and she’s not in Colombia. And it would take years to get her up to the skill level so she can make a decision when it comes to the day to day programming of the game. Currently, the Autobotika team is working on the save format for the levels. Doing it wrong would expose users to possibly security issues, but the speed, access across multiple platforms and the ability to be updated are all features that need to be handled. That being said all Lola and Danielle care about is if the bloody thing works.

What Danielle does is direct the production, and the game part. Danielle has access to the same information that the majority of the team uses and we are listening. She makes comments and directs production. But she’s not learning how to do each job because the people who are working on the game took years to reach their level of skill. No one person on the team can do the job of another. Danielle is learning how to manage a team which is incredibly valuable.

Someone who will remain nameless is saying that Autobotika hasn’t released a game to market. If they’re saying that Autobotika hasn’t published a game under their marque that’s completely true, they’ve made games for other companies as subcontractors. But the staff and people that are working with Danielle and TFYC have worked on multiple games. A partial list of their contributions are…

Poltergeist: A Pixelated Horror
Battlefront Heroes
Go King
Living Stories
World Cup Showman
Matilde
Space Overlords
CellFactor
Monster Madness
Grabbity
Kogui


I would prefer if the person in question didn’t undervalue the work of a person. Just because they didn’t create every part of their game… Especially since all game designers are just part of a larger team that made their art possible.

[quannum]

progressive feminists need to be able to identify and call out regressive feminists, this won't happen as long as open-minded inclusiveness is held as a virtue in-and-of itself.
i haven't heard any strong feminist voice defend shirtgate dude against the slut-shaming that he's received.

[archibaldcrane]

I know, I mean they've chipped like 5% of my monumental privilege away. What's next? 10%? I must not let that happen!

[BaneTheBrawler]

[archibaldcrane]

progressive feminists need to be able to identify and call out regressive feminists, this won't happen as long as open-minded inclusiveness is held as a virtue in-and-of itself.
i haven't heard any strong feminist voice defend shirtgate dude against the slut-shaming that he's received.

They were calling him slutty?

[quannum]

is that what slut-shaming is, calling someone slutty?

[Priran]

[archibaldcrane]

is that what slut-shaming is, calling someone slutty?

Basically yeah - making them ashamed of their perceived promiscuity, usually by criticizing "slutty" clothes or "slutty" behavior, generally divorced from actually having sex.

[archibaldcrane]

This is the watch #gamergate is buying him, since he is a shining beacon in the fight for ethics in videogame journalism, right?

[quannum]

Basically yeah - making them ashamed of their perceived promiscuity, usually by criticizing "slutty" clothes or "slutty" behavior, generally divorced from actually having sex.

Basically yeah, just change the word promiscuity to something that's more male-shaming.

[tyven]

he's a slut he's a hoe he's a freak. got a different girl every day of the week

[Andalusian girls]

kim was the original feminist

[Thunder]

Julien Blanc: UK denies visa to 'pick-up artist'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30119100

lol, I knew about this story when it first started to break about 2 weeks ago. Crazy.

A little while ago this guy being interviewed did a documentary on male masculinity in the US and attended a weekend with julien, here's what he had to say today about it (4min): http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30122657

I knew the media was crooked, but I'm pretty speechless at how this story got blown out of proportion solely because SJWs have so much power and are so vapid/retarded they go after whatever is different than they are. The videos/tweets/etc everyone's getting upset about are JOKES. Some of them in bad taste like the one that started this whole thing where he put Japanese girls' heads in his crotch and edited out the parts where he had already talked with them for a while and had them laughing before/after the crotch thing.