The Stereotype Even Progressive Gamers Overlook

Gameraven.com writes:

''Bring up any prejudice or bias and the majority of people will deny its existence or at least their participation in it. In fact, just the other day, I wrote a news article… a news article! Not an editorial or opinion piece. It was quickly shut down because it spoke of a new study that linked sexism to video games.''

[zuul9018]

Wario ugly? Personal opinion maybe. Is waluigi any different? You wanna fight for the people fight for all the people. No anorexic heroes, waluigi is a bad guy, how many skinny guys in games are tweakers?
I dont want to come off agressive but people are too thin skinned. Sometypes stereotypes are funny (basically all the time) i kinda look like a tweak sometimes, my best friends mexican i make jokes about how i want his talents come baseball season. I joke about my white trash (cousin humping, cars in my yard) or my nazi roots (my ancestors united n got stuff done). When a driver in front of me is going 20 in a 50 i laugh that theyre of course 107 years old. I dont mock or judge them i just appreciate the jokes in life.
Its funny, it doesnt have to be taken as an insult as long as you become okay with who you are. Everybody is embarassed about something about themselves. Its just that you dont know what that is.
As for getting insulted on the internet, im sorry you cant fix that. I also really dont think "fat" and "gay" are the most common i hear. A long time ago yes but not now. I hear kids say "ni---er" a lot i guess.

[ZombieGamerMan]

fuck being "progressive" I rather be rude, crude and uncensored

[gbsrnctaln]

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[Cobra951]

Linking video games to sexism is like linking Snow White to narcolepsy. These are fantasies, people--fiction. They didn't happen to any real people at all.

[bluefox755]

It's "fat shaming". I'm not saying anyone should make fun of fat people, or be intentionally spiteful and vicious, but frankly, this is less dangerous than normalization of obesity. It is the leading cause of preventable dead in the US. If someone wants to eat themselves into an early grave, more power to them. But we need to stop pretending like it's normal or healthy to live that way. There is nothing "progressive" about enabling people who are killing themselves.