I really wanted my first post on here to be about Hatoful Boyfriend, or Project X Zone, but work schedules have kept me from diving into those incredible games. At the time of this writing there I people who I admired and respected(Anthony Burch from Gearbox for example) still saying that #gamergate is about misogyny and protecting the gamer community from the evil queers and brown people and the vaginas with mouths(also CP). Thus keeping it pure for us Cis White(read WASP) Males.
The problem with the viewpoint that people like Anthony paint is that I am a Queer German Jew, I live on the top floor of a downtown apartment block(the basement is a tornado shelter), one of my favorite developers is Christine Love, I eagerly wait to play My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress as Him and Now I Have to Deal with a Geeky Stalker and a Domme Beauty Who Want Me in a Bind!! and as you might of guessed I love Visual Novels along with RPGs, Card Games and Real Time Strategy Games.
From what I have seen in #notyourshield and #gamergate is that many people have almost nothing in common except for 2 things: We are Gamers, and We do not fit the stereotype that the gaming press and their allies are trying to push on us. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, genders, sexualities, religions or lack thereof, ideologies, etc. A very small percentage fall into the Cis White Male who does not shave and lives in their parents basement where their spend all day on PCpartspicker and /r/redpill in between attacking other player’s gender, sexuality and skin color on CS:GO.
They are still pushing this line, even after we made it painfully clear, after we rubbed the truth in their face like a puppy being punished for pissing on the rug. Why do they still push this misogynistic line?
I don’t know, I honestly don’t fucking know. It’s frustrating, these are people who up until a few days ago I would read their articles, listen to them on various podcasts, and followed them on twitter, and now I just see them close minded children. It’s disheartening to see these people fall on the obvious logical fallacies to defend themselves.
So I am just going to say it here. All I want is an extra sentence at the beginning of an article about a service or person or product. Tell us, the readers, your customers, the people who look at the ads and by proxy pay you to do your job what your relationship is regarding this thing or person you are writing about.
Is it a review copy? Did they fly you out and wine and dine you while you were demoing? Are you friends with this developer? Basically, we want to know how you were influenced by the creator or person you are writing about.
What you are writing about will likely lead to your readers to spend money, and invest time into the thing, I feel it’s only fair that we know about this before reading on. That is what we will do in our opinion pieces, it adds up to about one or two extra sentences. This extra step is not too difficult at all, hell you could even mention it in the middle of the article if your ad guys are worried that too many reader will bounce before the impression is made.
If this is too much for you to do, then maybe you should pass that topic or article idea to another writer.
Thank you for reading.
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