Modern feminism makes me sad. It makes me sad how when somebody lashes out at radical feminism, it's followed by an instant ban threat, while anybody defending the rights of men is wrong by default and a free target for whatever remarks you want to make, even up to using the mere concept as an insult. There's a strong correlation between men's rights activists and male chauvinism, but does that make automatically make any criticism towards feminism invalid? I think that's just irrational.
consider the fact that samtagonist and the likes use "feminism" as an insult on a daily basis and are not banned. yes, i know "radical feminism" is a thing and they do mean things, but how the fuck is talking about a kotaku article "radical," it's perhaps the least radical thing i can think of, and i have no idea why you mrm identifiers keep tagging radical to feminist, oh right! to say that you hate a "certain type of feminists," the ones that are radical so you can pretend to care, but not really. also, no mrm has defended the rights of men in this thread and i would never "target" that-- i'm serious, look at the thread. if there's a men's issue here spill the beans! oh, you mean the ones that self-identify as an mrm and post that they stand for equal rights and right after that line excuse it with "women are less productive" as a fucking guess -- because fuck science -- as the answer to the pay gap? what is MRM even about? let's see:
In the mid- to late 1970s the men's liberation movement split into two separate strands with opposing views: The pro-feminist men's movement and an antifeminist men's rights movement.[5] Men's rights activists have since then rejected feminist principles and focused on disadvantages of men and what they see as evidence of men's oppression.
The men's rights movement is generally understood as a backlash or countermovement to feminism.[6][7][8][9] The men's rights movement consists of diverse points of view which are hostile toward feminist ideas.[10] Men's rights activists believe that feminism has overshot its objective and harmed men.[6][11][5] They dispute that men as a group have institutional power and privilege[12][10] and instead see men as the real victims,[13][5] arguing that men are disadvantaged relative to women.[14] Men's rights activists see men as an oppressed collective and agree that society and government have been "feminized" by the women's movement.[6] Warren Farrell and Herb Goldberg, for instance, believe that all men are disadvantaged, discriminated against and oppressed and argue that power is an illusion for most men since women are the actual bearers of power.[6] Men's rights groups generally reject the notion that feminism is interested in men's problems[10] and some activists view the women's movement as a conspiracy which aims at concealing discrimination against men.
if any MRM wants to dispute this, go ahead. actually don't, the whole thing is "irrational" and i don't apologize for using MRM as an insult, that'd be stupid when you, samtagonist, and mipe are doing the exact same thing. you see the two posts right above me? that's what complete fucking ignorance looks like.
I feel the same about the recent 'more women should enter the games industry!' nonsense. Why? Are women better programmers than men? Better artists? Do they do better in PR positions? Our industry is about making entertainment, not researching the biological differences between genders or something. I don't care if there are women in a team I'm working with, or if it's an all-male team - I care about their skills, motivation and personality, but I don't see what gender has to do with it. We don't 'need' more women in the industry. We need only as many as choose to join the industry.
i can't roll my eyes any harder. no, it doesn't "NEED" women in the industry(
but why would anyone actively be against "more women should enter the games industry"? you ever think about that? perhaps you are not for gender equality as the thousand other MRMs declared before screaming I DON'T CARE at the issue) but this fucking industry sure can benefit from a larger talent pool. games is about making entertainment, it's also about making games that cost millions of dollars to make, it's also in their interest to make the best games and that means looking for the best of the best to work on it, and that is not an all-male team. it's also in their interest to make money doing it. but it turns out it's interested in making entertainment heavily skewed towards stereotypical male's interests because some idiot posing as a marketer said so. that's bad for growth. it also turns out it's interested in making entertainment that's even offensive towards groups, "unintentionally", but i don't believe in the unintentional. i believe people in the game industry are that incompetent with social issues and need to hire women and minorities or get some consultants because it's getting embarrassing.