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Of course, as the popularity of indie games continues to rise, it’s nice to be able to have the choice to decide how much of your cash goes to the developers as opposed to not really knowing for sure how much just gets kept by various third parties.<\/p>\n

Sigh, Misogyny<\/h3>\n
From that nice little snippet of\u00a0camaraderie, I regret that I must now depress the tone somewhat and talk about InternetFail, and more specifically, how it’s been discussed recently with regard to the world of gaming.<\/p>\n

At the start of June BBC News Magazine<\/strong> ran an article highlighting the constant, abhorrent abuse that female gamers get in online play: here<\/a>. \u00a0It mostly focusses on the experiences of one Wisconsin gamer called Jenny, of the CoD<\/strong> ilk, and the abuse she gets daily on voice chats. \u00a0She records them and uploads them to her website, Not in the Kitchen Anymore<\/a><\/strong>, and I gotta say, she handles this shit pretty well but the point is she shouldn’t have to<\/em>. \u00a0Especially, as the article points out, 42% of US gamers are women, and adult women outnumber teenage boys quite considerably.<\/p>\n
There’s also a\u00a0BBC World Service programme<\/a>\u00a0based on her experiences and those of other female gamers. \u00a0If you read the article or listen to the programme you might hear some charming young fellows claiming “freedom of speech”<\/em>, but here’s a point of interest for any such time someone tries to use this smokescreen of an excuse if you call them out as misogynists (or racists, homophobes, etc… the list, depressingly, goes on). \u00a0In both American and European (incl. British) law the “freedom of speech” excuse doesn’t fly.<\/p>\n
Why’s that? \u00a0Well, if you actually read the laws you’ll see there are exclusions to what the precious First Amendment protects: look here<\/a>. \u00a0What’s that? \u00a0Obscenity? \u00a0Threats? \u00a0Defamation? \u00a0Intentional infliction of emotional distress? \u00a0They’re all<\/em>\u00a0excluded from protection by the First Amendment? \u00a0OHGAWDNO! \u00a0It’s like living in a world where people treat each other with respect! \u00a0How horrible.<\/p>\n
And, Euro law? \u00a0Just for starters<\/em>\u00a0you can consult Article 10<\/a> and Article 14<\/a> of the European Convention of Human Rights. \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0Human rights<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0But be careful out there: trying to educate these fools in the error of their ways and<\/strong>\u00a0the legal flaws in their defence\u00a0might offend them. \u00a0The fact you’ve done some learnings (that aren’t centred around how to make tasty lunchtime treats)<\/em> is clearly a work of pure evil!<\/p>\n
Although Jenny of Wisconsin might be able to deal with it, there are a lot of people out there who can’t or don’t want to. \u00a0It takes a lot of effort, seriously. \u00a0I’m an antisocial gamer – we know this – I like playing games on my own, I hate chat and I hate voice-chats even more. \u00a0I don’t want to listen to somebody’s inane drivel while I shoot stuff, regardless of the content. \u00a0I ditched the one MMO I played<\/a> a long time ago because of the racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic crap that occurred on a daily basis. \u00a0Not directed at me, just there<\/em> – and no one really ever objected (if you did, you got the abuse turned on you).<\/p>\n
My solution is not one that everyone can adopt. \u00a0I just avoid the social elements, even if it’s online team-based play like TF2<\/strong>, and I refuse to disclose any information about myself. \u00a0Generally, I am the wallpaper: I keep quiet and ignore chat. \u00a0This is mostly because I’m a misanthrope and do not care for being social, but partly it’s also because I know that a lot of people on chat are going to be dicks. \u00a0I just don’t understand why banter has to be offensive, even if it doesn’t go near questions of gender.<\/p>\n
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But back to the specific point of misogyny in the gamingverse. \u00a0I mentioned the KickStarter from Feminist Frequency<\/strong> in May’s “Playing…<\/a>” post and the woman behind it, Anita Sarkeesian, has been yet another figurehead victim of abuse. \u00a0She put her head over that parapet, so to speak, and has had it all but shot to smithereens<\/a>. \u00a0Gladly, however, this isn’t going to stop her making those videos, nor has it stopped people pledging<\/a> (when I last checked, she was on $87,000+ with 68 hours left to go). \u00a0But this sort of thing does make me want to adopt a superhero persona, fly all over the world, and stand in defence of these women.<\/p>\n
I was going to say “brave women” just ther, but that, to me, gives too much credit to these scum-sucking parasites of the internet. \u00a0It shouldn’t have to be brave just to identify as female and like games. \u00a0FFS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
At least – if we’re to take anything positive away from this – this all-too-common abuse is being given more and more of a public face. \u00a0A\u00a0site that BBC article mentions is Fat, \u00a0Ugly or Slutty<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(because that’s pretty much all you are if you’re a female gamer, apparently)<\/em> where you can upload screengrabs of sexist abuse\/harrasment. \u00a0So, if you can catch the abuse you receive, or see, in a screen grab or a recording, make it known!<\/p>\n

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Sigh, Misogyny<\/h3>\n From that nice little snippet of\u00a0camaraderie, I regret that I must now depress the tone somewhat and talk about InternetFail, and more specifically, how it’s been discussed recently with regard to the world of gaming.<\/p>\n