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Current music:	Joan of Arc - Stevie Nicks
Entry tags:	feminism: you're doing it wrong, mmorpg

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
Got a heads up on this little wank from a friend.

Over in girl_gamers, tiffyangel has issues.

And she makes sure the comm knows that talking about gender-related issues in relation to gaming is painful and offensive.

"I deal with gender issues every single day of my life because of my field of study and because of my own personal gender; I really don't want to see them in gaming or gaming communities. While I recognize that RL issues like that do come up in games (I recently had to deal with a case of sexual harrassment in WoW...that wasn't fun), I want the issues that don't have to come up to stay hidden."

What set her off, you might ask? It seems to be this post by chicknstu, who's noticed how, in his own experience, women approach and play Sims differently than men, and it turns into discussions on how people are raised and what's expected of them and how they're conditioned to think, as well as plenty of counterarguments and people who defy his own personal observations.

And she felt that should be placed behind an LJ cut so she's not assaulted by gender issues on the Intarwebs in a public comm basically geared toward a minority gender in a hobby.

To make it better, she spells women as "womyn". Yeah.

After getting smacked around by other girl gamers for more or less 52 comments, she's back for more, throwing a stamping, squealing, OMG UR SO MEEN I'M LEAVING post in disguise, complete with an adominishment on those who didn't feel the need to speak up:

"To those who were offended by the post I responded to but didn't say anything, don't let what happened to me scare you off from voicing your opinion. It gets ugly sometimes, but that's what happens when you're in the minority. Doesn't make your feelings any less valid."

EDIT: the OMGMEEN post has been bahleeted, but was saved via a screencap provided by the lovely dark_puck.

Small, but full of that creamy, self-righteous filling of fighting the good feminist fight against all things male. ~~So has she ever seen a mass grave?~~

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	dark_puck 2006-10-20 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	Bahleeted, but I managed to get a screenshot of the original post here. Sadly, I wasn't able to recover any of the comments. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	paintobscura 2006-10-20 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	52 comments is 'a lot'? Someone's new to the interwebs. Thank god onewinter is a sane mod, otherwise that place would've gone to hell in a handbasket years ago. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onaga 2006-10-20 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	I was about to say. 52 comments is just when things start to get interesting! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashenmote 2006-10-20 04:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, but that's a wonderful goodbye post! If I were a girl_gamers mod I would impose an official day of mourning for the parting of tiffyangel. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-10-21 01:15 am UTC (link)
	About your icon... where did the whole 'I didn't know her... but I can't stop crying!' thing originate? - jade_morcant @ LJ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2006-10-21 01:33 am UTC (link)
	It's a catchy quote from the 'House of Mourning' chapters by Mina de Malfoy, but I guess it's possible that it's a play on one of the more famous pseudocide wanks, in turn. Not entirely sure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-10-23 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! - jade_morcant @ LJ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-10-21 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Personally, my favorite part was the Feelings: Complacent icon at the bottom of the screen. Tells me a whooooole lot about her. were_lemur on lj (Reply to this)(Parent)

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