@bladeofcreation Saying that she is dangerous or has the potential to cause damage has literally nothing to do with her gender, it has to do with the hot potato political bullshit that she weaves into her arguments. The kinds of topics she crashes into are the kinds of things that offends and enrages great many people, it's pure bull in a china shop material. Brad's face kind of mirrors mine in this video when she takes off on another of her rants. If any of the other members went to such lengths to poke the buzzfeed hive i'd be equally disappointed in them, regardless of gender.
It's very disappointing nowadays that people can just act like a spoiled brat without consequence and hide behind a cloak of invulnerability by dropping key phrases into their arguments. Her behaviour shouldn't get a free pass just because of her sex or the fact that she's made statements in the past about feminism etc. If she's being an asshole, call her out, same as folks do for the rest of the team. I've never been too fond of the way Ben talks to Matt Rory, does that mean im only pissed at Ben because hes a man, or tall, or white, or of a certain age range? No, it's because he can be an overly boisterous bully sometimes, end of story.
As for Jeff agreeing with her, sure, he does agree that they need to do a good job with the storyline in this game and from listening to him talk about it in the podcast he sounds like he's cautiously confident that they're doing a reasonable job at it and not another "no russian" scene like Abby seems to be expecting.
What negates her points and makes her sound ill-informed is the fact that her tirade starts by stating two facts about the demo that were WAY off base, how can you take her opinions or points seriously when it's pretty clear she paid the demo no attention? Then yet again she's rude to Dan who had fairly decent (for Dan) points to make and completely disarms him. She throws the toys out of the pram when she gets corrected and just looks utterly bored and grumpy for most of this feature. I really do find her to be a source of negativity in the group and its a shame when the rest of the squad seem like a decent bunch of fun people.
Why is it that any criticism against Abby on this site or youtube is met with the assumption that it's got something to do with her gender? Can't people just be displeased by her behaviour as a person without it immediately devolving into some ridiculous "us vs them" buzz word slinging match?
She's dangerous for the site in my opinion, GB has always been fairly free of politics but she's got an agenda and has continually dragged conversations into waypoint/kotaku/buzzfeed levels of pop-politics without the knowledge to back it up. Most of the games she's complained about she either hasn't tried (see the video above for her fresh takes on the new COD, set in the middle east, where US soliders blaze in and execute surrendering women and children) or she's reused some recycled key phrases from other sites to describe how its been discriminatory/sexist/anti feminist. There's really no need for it at GB.
She could be a man, a woman or a fence post for all I care about her gender, I just plain don't like what she brings to the table and I honestly think she's going to cause damage to the site eventually. No doubt this comment will be met with the normal "KYS" levels of blind, creepy defence for her but as a paid member i'm pretty fed up listening to her aggressive rants and sensational takes, it's literally put me off watching a lot of running features from the GBeast crew.
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