FGC and Sexism.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm all about saying outlandish and offensive things from time to time, but I try to follow a basic principle of mass media: know your audience. To wit, women have been bombarded since youth with the notions that they exist largely to placate men and that they will not have (and perhaps don't deserve) the same kinds of career opportunities as their male counterparts. Research also shows that women's brains tend to hold on to upsetting or disturbing emotions for longer periods of time than men's brains do, which is not necessarily a disadvantage. In light of this, it shouldn't be difficult to understand why many women fail to see lewd comments and inappropriate advances as "just jokes." A similar principle applies with racial humor. Some of my friends can laugh at it, others have a tougher time of it, and for the most part I don't begrudge them their sensitivities. Bottom line: know who you're talking to.

I also think both Aris and Jared have presented a caricature of the situation. Yes, the FGC can be a rowdy, ribald bunch, but the kind of behavior they describe is neither condoned nor tolerated on as wide a scale as they would have you believe.
 
WARUI_NE said:
please stop talking
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andur said:
And shame on Capcom for not immediately booting this guy off of their show and terminating their contract with him. If this is the kind of stupid unacceptable behavior that he'll display on live camera, how much worse is he when he's not in the public eye? By not doing so and just issuing a "its not our opinion" cookie-cutter public relations response, they are in effect validating/promoting this kind of unacceptable behavior. Shame on any of the other sponsers too associating theirselves with this.

Despite some opinions here, the mere term Fighting Game Community includes us as a whole. Someone hearing something atrocious like this about the FGC is going to immediately lump us in with it as we're also a fighting game community. Yes its unfair.
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I'm pretty sure this was what they were originally intending. Look at how much extra media attention it's gotten. The fact that they were making a 'reality tv' segment and they invited Aris as one of the coaches made what happened inevitable, and probably intended.
 
I see nobody is winning.

This issue is far more complex than just harassment, behavior and community culture. It's also about public perception, notions of equality and respect, territorialism and just plain OG worship.
 
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