six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[daredtowork]

108. No one is attacking gaming here

At least I'm not. Though I would argue that the other side of "women aren't designing good games" is "women aren't receiving the career support to become auteurs yet". Eventually women will catch up, and women will bring what they've got design-wise - and men will end up liking it.

Regarding Anita: her first kickstarter campaign was driven by genuine horrific trolling. I have no idea what the case is now, and I have no comment on her talent as a game developer. I can say the gaming community would be better off just not trying to score points against her. It's the same situation as in this thread. She had some valid feminist things to say: some schmucks chose to "win" over her instead of listening. And that became the reputation of the gaming community you now have to contend with. The more you harp on her, the worse it gets.

The issue here is not censoring games, taking away games, or randomly bashing gamers. The issue is how normal it has become to use the word "rape" in the gaming community, and how that desensitizes kids in the larger world. There is no need to treat this like the last stand of the Alamo, where gaming might go down forever should they admit it. Since we are not talking about the game builds themselves, we aren't talking about bringing in censorship committees. We're talking about guys listening and thinking about changing the way they talk. Sort of like they gradually stopped using the N word. But it seems like it's going to be a while before any of the gamers on this thread acquire that listening skill.