SpaceInsomniac

To all that, I would suggest that it's far more common for people to be concerned with what actually concerns them. You could call it selfish, but it's really just human nature. How much money have you spent on gaming in the last year? And how many donations have you made to 3rd world nation causes? It's basically the same thing, and there's nothing wrong with that. But I do get your point that when it comes to sexism, there are much bigger fish to fry than this.

The thing that I personally don't like about the feminist movement is that it strikes me as wanting to eliminate every possible situation where men have an advantage over women, while doing nothing about situations where women have a large advantage over men. Those they just cast those aside under the umbrella of "benevolent sexism," and claim that they're not happy about that either, all while doing absolutely nothing to bring about any change that could disadvantage women in any possible way. This seems to be the case even in the face of blatant sexism that favors women, child custody being one good example.

That's not equality, and that's why I no longer consider myself to be a feminist.

To expand upon this, I thought I'd add my post from another thread that was dealing with this issue.

Yeah, this is the case. Women simply aren't drawn to STEM fields in the numbers that men are, and for some reason this outrages some people. If it didn't, the poster in this video would never have existed:

The thing is, there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with not having many women in STEM fields, if most women themselves don't want to be in those fields. There was a great comment from a women on NeoGAF concerning this issue, which I'll quote here:

Quick anecdote for everyone. I had to go to a nursing legislation conference a couple weeks ago. There was not a single male speaker the entire conference. Furthermore, the majority of attendees were women. There were door prizes given out if you signed up and they were all lotion baskets, or pink scrubs, and were all gifts for women. The men were told over loud speaker that all male bathrooms on the first floor were now female bathrooms for the duration of the conference to accommodate everyone. The males attending were told to go to the basement to use the bathroom.

I can't imagine anyone telling women at a majority male event to go use the bathroom in the basement.

If you have major issues with the lack of women in STEM fields (including being outraged by the lack of women at the Sony conference), and have absolutely no problem with the lack of male nurses or teachers, there's a word for that. That word isn't "feminist," it's "hypocrite."

I'm thinking a turkey sandwich and some chips.

Keep in mind, though, anti-used game features mean more than just "oh, poor gamestop will go out of business and game developers will actually get money when you buy their games, boo hoo," if your view is that narrow minded. Anti-used game technology would also mean:

1) No loaning games to friends, or borrowing their games.

2) No taking games to a friends house without bringing along your entire game console.

3) An almost certain requirement to always be connected to the internet.

4) A strong likelihood that no used games would also mean no game rentals.

Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that most of you don't seem to care about these issues.

At any rate, I realize that not every example is covered by the poll options. Sorry about that, but just go with whatever is closest to your situation.

Yeah, this is the case. Women simply aren't drawn to STEM fields in the numbers that men are, and for some reason this outrages some people. If it didn't, the poster in this video would never have existed:

The thing is, there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with not having many women in STEM fields, if most women themselves don't want to be in those fields. There was a great comment from a women on NeoGAF concerning this issue, which I'll quote here:

Quick anecdote for everyone. I had to go to a nursing legislation conference a couple weeks ago. There was not a single male speaker the entire conference. Furthermore, the majority of attendees were women. There were door prizes given out if you signed up and they were all lotion baskets, or pink scrubs, and were all gifts for women. The men were told over loud speaker that all male bathrooms on the first floor were now female bathrooms for the duration of the conference to accommodate everyone. The males attending were told to go to the basement to use the bathroom.

I can't imagine anyone telling women at a majority male event to go use the bathroom in the basement.

If you have major issues with the lack of women in STEM fields (including being outraged by the lack of women at the Sony conference), and have absolutely no problem with the lack of male nurses or teachers, there's a word for that. That word isn't "feminist," it's "hypocrite."

There are two things I find worse than any of those:

- The systematic removal of color from the entire video game industry.

- "Cinematic" music replacing anything with melody.

I had one customer tell me the company I worked for encouraged "niggerly" behavior because we cut off his internet until he paid his bill.

Personally, I thought it might be interesting.  The main thing that I took away from that article is that many of the women focused far too much on WHY the statue was sexist and offensive towards women, instead of just calling it disrespectful to ALL gamers in general.   
 
I see things like this, and it just reconfirms the fact that I never tell anyone I play video games until I find out that they do first.  Non-gamers see things like this and it just lowers their already low opinion of video games as a hobby, and anyone who enjoys playing them. 

@HisDudeness: Keep this in mind Resident Evil 4 was Nintendo exclusive at one point.

They made an error and instead of fixing it they decided to let everyone else (ie: people who don't spend all day online/able to down the thing before MS fixes it) have it anyway and people are mad?