• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        6 days ago

        I think because they find it culturally threatening for there to be prominent, popular, critically-appreciated video games that don’t reinforce and endlessly recapitulate their misogynistic worldview via the contorted and objectified depiction of women. That means there will be more gamers who maybe don’t like it or think it’s weird, and suddenly their boys’ club has been disrupted, and maybe it’ll get undermined further if it spreads . . . So there’s nothing to do but howl at the moon and send death and r— threats to hold the line.