• oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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    Agreed with your reasons, but she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations. I wanted to share a point of view that I think is rarely shared in gaming communities.
    I don’t follow YouTube drama much, so I don’t know who Asmongold is.

    The reason I ended up there is because I recently started playing Oblivion, and saw her videos mentioned.

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      she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

      These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

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        I think you may have a a specific experience that makes this very common for you. I personally don’t interact with those subjects much, so I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing your view.

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          Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.

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          She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.