• Stoneblackdog@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I almost fell down it around 3 years ago, watching “SJWs and feminists against video games” type videos and actively searching for them but then one day I just stopped. I really am thankful that the Youtube algorithm didn’t hit me that hard.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll never understand how “SJWs and feminists against video games” continues to be a trope.

      Portal was released in 2007, and by 2010 I had read a litany of articles about how Portal was a feminist masterpiece, turning the classic First Person Shooter starring a violent male protagonist on it’s head entirely, giving you a gun that makes holes. Each time you pass through a portal, you are rebirthed. There are no male characters. The only “male” coded character is the companion cube, which you are pressed to abandon by GlaDOS.

      Anyway, plenty of feminists fucking loved that game, so I don’t understand how this perception continues unabated.