@icemael: "There is nothing wrong with “male gaze” – on the contrary, it is only through the perspective of a man (or a lesbian, I suppose) that female beauty can be fully appreciated and celebrated."
"Your beauty, little girl, is directly correlated with how much sexual desire you illicit in males."
Fucking terrifying.
oh my god I didn't even read that, that's so fucking terrible.
There's really a ton of frightening straight white male privilege in that entire post that is thoroughly cringe-worthy. I'm impressed with the level-headed tone it is being discussed.
@icemael: "There is nothing wrong with “male gaze” – on the contrary, it is only through the perspective of a man (or a lesbian, I suppose) that female beauty can be fully appreciated and celebrated."
"Your beauty, little girl, is directly correlated with how much sexual desire you illicit in males."
What makes you think you know more about the ramifications of a gay gaming convention than the hundreds of homosexuals who have organized/made plans to attend said convention?
What makes you think you know more about what it is like to be LGBT at a gaming convention than the homosexuals who felt a gay gaming convention was necessary?
You can have a point of view, that's fine, but your stubborn refusal to acknowledge the validity of what hundreds (thousands?) of people who are different than you want to do is absolute pigheadedness (at best)/bigotry (at worst). It is privilege at its most obnoxious.
PAX is a funny one to bring up since the drawing half of the Penny Arcade team is pretty openly transphobic. It isn't necessarily the gays who pass (as you seem to be) that face the problems. You can dismiss other modes of operating as a homosexual as being a "tool", but why bother? Why shouldn't a man be able to dress female at PAX without being judged negatively for it?
I understand your point about not needing to be an asshole to those who disagree, but some opinions are born out of intolerance. Jumping to the conclusion that a gay gamer convention is about excluding straights (it isn't) and wanting to feel special (it isn't) indicates an insulting and bigoted view towards homosexuals as a community.
My point is merely that it is not our place as individuals to say whether or not this kind of convention "should" happen and our presumptions about why it is happening speak to our biases.
The GB poster who photoshopped Fish's head onto a Nazi shooting a Holocaust victim certainly made the comparison between Fish and Hitler.
Besides that, people are rarely "responding" to Fish, because you cannot respond to someone who is not talking to you. For instance, Beer was not responding to Fish. Beer inserted himself into a drama of which he was not a part.
- Phil Fish rudely said that Japanese games "suck" when asked by a nervous Japanese man at a GDC indie game movie panel. He apologized to the guy whose question he answered (rudely) and the guy accepted the apology graciously.
- Phil Fish told his haters to "choke on it (his dick)" after winning the grand prize at IGF. Violent and misogynistic, but I appreciate the spirit of it.
- Phil Fish told his haters ("nerds") to "boycott harder" after Fez topped the Steam sales charts. This, like the previous comment, is aimed directly at people who already hate him.
- Phil Fish wears thick-rimmed black glasses and has mutton chops. He speaks about games as if they are very important. This causes anti-"hipster" rage.
I call myself "The Murderer" and I murdered your family jeez what do you expect? Wow big surprise I stabbed them all it's what I do I own it OK? Jeez stop freaking out about all this blood.
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