I know that it can be fun to mock people by mimicking the irrational things they say or the irrational ways they act, but it can produce the same effect as people saying it without the sarcastic tag. Saying something sexist sarcastically and saying the same thing seriously is still saying the sexist thing one more time.
You're welcome to keep doing it if you want to, of course, and I'm not saying that you're intending to put something sexist out there. But is it really adding something of value to say something sexist and then say the equivalent of "just kidding", any more than it would be to say something racist and then "/s" afterwards?
The /s is really there to be sure no mistake this as being the position I stand on.
What I was trying to convey is that the people who go all "I can't criticize these women or I'll be labeled as a bad guy" are really something that should read as "They're beneath me, I don't respect their opinion because of who they are and I won't lower myself to debating their points".
It's the very same things you see every time Obama open his mouth on some channels.
I don't think I need to explain why that's not a behavior I condone.
I've thought similar about this consistent bringing up of "didn't she sleep with a journalist for X" falsity. An idea already expressed in this topic is that if this was simply about journalism, the fault for any conflict of interest would lie with the person breaking their responsibilities, i.e. the journalist in question. Yet Zoe is painted as the evil succubus who used sex to manipulate a journalist into writing about her game and almost 2 and a half years later, it's still her that is on every gater's lips as the instigator and the reason for ruination of the industry. I'd think if you're so fervently against Zoe based on this non-truth, barely paying any bit of the responsibility to the person with the job that will be compromised, it's possible that you are fully aware of how easily you'd drop your responsibilities if sex was on the table. I don't know whether it's true or not but I've seen this same "my hate hides my true nature" phenomenon too much outside of gaming to not think about it.
This whole point is such a thin veiled BS it would be deemed inappropriate clothing for a porno.
Especially when days later a huge publisher did the very thing they claim to be against and they go all "yeah, it's not important. We need to focus on the real issue here".
I was highly skeptical of game journalism, this movement basically proved to me that the issue really was overblown.
