Really? You're actually going to try that? If the large amount of people who protested against her reaching in that article didn't clue you in to how out of touch you're being to anything either I or anyone else is saying about anything, then I'm at a loss of what to tell you. I've made my point countless times, and I've been more than fair to other points of view (which your claims that I'm not being fair don't have any substance what so ever).
Please come up with a better argument to debate me than "you're trying to squelch debate", because I think I've made it rather clear that such an accusation doesn't hold any water.
Good point. In that case, I guess misogyny never happened in video games, because there is ALWAYS a group of people ready to attack any article. Your argument requires that misogyny is inherently absent from gaming, and that's bullshit.
Now, please, pretend like you have an argument to make - what makes her point invalid, beyond the idea that majority rules?
You know what, let me do your job, I'll list some ideas for your criticism that I found in the comments.
1. "It's a joke. By definition it exists to entertain. If someone gets offended by it, that's on them."
2. "I'm gay, I'm not offended." - If you are gay, of course.
3. "Free speech"
That seems to be the argument. Assuming the comment section reflects the critics, I'm going to assume that she was spot on in saying that it was a homophobic joke to some degree. The prevailing criticism is "I don't care, shut up, stop crying". It doesn't address her points, and many people even make the argument that people who see homophobia in jokes like that are just trying to wash over video games and make everything politically correct. They must have not been paying attention, because the majority of video game heroes are already politically correct by default, because white, heterosexual male video game characters are all painted in their games as pretty solid and well-defined characters. The reason why it's a problem with non-white/non-hetero/non-male characters is that there doesn't exist as positive a norm as the aforementioned group gets to latch onto. If a black or gay or female character is the star of a game and is a legitimately non-stereotypical depiction of their group, it's a big deal. It's only a big deal because it's so rare. Ideally, it shouldn't be a big deal, but gaming is still in an age where developers are either too afraid to make normal characters that don't fit into that one group or they don't care.
