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    3 days ago

    And the ads worked. The audience for those ads became emblematic of the type and grew up objectifying women because they had 40 years of game art and ads telling them it was okay.

    “Women don’t mind being a piece of equipment because they just have 2 uses, and one is nagging! Amirite?”

    This is what most likely has set so many misogynistic ideas as ‘gamer culture’. That toxic base is what found their identity as hard core gamers and became the game community that we recognize today. It’s getting much better now that the stereotype of videogames has faded but the incel comments about female protags shows it isn’t fully healed.







  • The stories we get on Lemmy are found by folks with similar taste in politics and so are sourced from media which helps reinforce our perspective. This skews our perception to be more inline with what we want at the cost of the reality. There are many who support this new jingoist kleptocracy and will hurt themselves for a chance to get a piece of the action.

    Walmart has some employees upset at its lack of DEI. None of those employees make business decisions that can see this reversed. The people are upset but the decision makers don’t care.