There's a saying about assumptions that I can't be assed typing that sums up this situation pretty well.this is just stupid.
legitimate people going through all this bullshit cause of bad assumptions.
OMFG what a joke.
Then everyone sees multiple tweets about something happening and assume it's true and start talking about it. I think I remember reading an article about this phenomenon after someone was tweeting fake information when Hurricane Sandy hit New York.
I think most of these guys assume that if an attractive woman is talking to them, they were probably paid to do it.
I think most of these guys assume that if an attractive woman is talking to them, they were probably paid to do it.
Uh.. You obviously don't even know what feminism is, so your post is the laughable one here.Male feminists are hilarious.
Holly Green said:If you don't inherently understand why paid companionship is problematic, go home. The grown ups are talking
her and Gies would make a great coupleWow. That's more than a handful of self-righteousness.
Notice how she's using the word "paid companionship" when she really wants to use the word prostitution. She has a problem with women being paid for specifically being women, that's what it all comes down to.Wow. That's more than a handful of self-righteousness.
Looks like simping to me.
hipsterWhich is so ironic that I actually have a hard on right now
Which is also ironic.
Exactly.So is what actually happened that a couple of people saw some attractive girls and started yelling about social injustice on twitter and reddit about it because they thought something must be up?
So is what actually happened that a couple of people saw some attractive girls and started yelling about social injustice on twitter and reddit about it because they thought something must be up?
I feel like this Internet craze is just setting women's rights back at this point.
Why? Drugs are cool in moderation.
https://twitter.com/notch/status/317725886919081985
I'm confused about this. I'll give Notch props for trying to reach out and find out what happened, but I don't really see how this conversation is going to develop beyond "Did you hire women to stand around?" "Nope" "Okay then."
Plus, I feel like she would not be the person to talk to about it, since she wasn't even there. If Notch wanted to find out about the event he should talk to the people who first made the claim, not the person who fiercely defended it.
https://twitter.com/notch/status/317725886919081985
I'm confused about this. I'll give Notch props for trying to reach out and find out what happened, but I don't really see how this conversation is going to develop beyond "Did you hire women to stand around?" "Nope" "Okay then."
Plus, I feel like she would not be the person to talk to about it, since she wasn't even there. If Notch wanted to find out about the event he should talk to the people who first made the claim, not the person who fiercely defended it.
Very few people lambasted Notch himself over this.Can anyone list all the journo's and industry peeps who jumped on the bandwagon to lambast Notch over this without the facts? I'd like a mental list so I know who to disregard in future.
Very few people lambasted Notch himself over this.
I guess my problem with this is how Minecraft only gets barebone updates every couple of months - if we're lucky, and yet they're paying strippers 300/hr. to pretend to be interested in their conversations?
What about all the things that the devs have promised would be integrated into MC that've been pushed back and pushed back and put on indefinite hold?
And then Notch moves onto Scrolls and his Space Sim Programming game 0x000 or something like that?
I'm starting to get the feeling that Notch got really lucky and became a millionaire on just the Alpha version of Minecraft, so now he's going to just keep starting projects, gathering money for them, and then "moving on" and dumping a B or C team in as soon as they hit a bare minimum of playability.
So can someone Lionel Mandrake this thread for people who haven't read all the pages?
If I'm to get this right:
1. Someone tweets about 'hired' women who were put in VIP section to entertain 'lonely, anti-social' developers/fans?
2. These anti social guys were being sexist, saying and doing stupid shit to them?
3. Notch says this is untrue, and then...
Is this basically it? If this is all untrue then who made it up and why? And why would people get faux outraged over something they hadn't confirmed?
Also pretty ladies in the green roompretty ladies seen in vip room.
must be "paid companions"
That's a great way to get the best staff for the job, indiscriminately hiring based on sex. If a male could ever prove their hiring practices it'd be lawsuit city.Not making this shit up:
A personal acquaintance of mine is a former editor at Gameranx and he told me that the site's EIC usually hires women (or gives women preference if there is a vacated position on the site).
Now she's blaming the club.
So is what actually happened that a couple of people saw some attractive girls and started yelling about social injustice on twitter and reddit because they thought something must be up?
So what about those two who resigned over this before the truth unraveled?
So can someone Lionel Mandrake this thread for people who haven't read all the pages?
If I'm to get this right:
1. Someone tweets about 'hired' women who were put in VIP section to entertain 'lonely, anti-social' developers/fans?
2. These anti social guys were being sexist, saying and doing stupid shit to them?
3. Notch says this is untrue, and then...
Is this basically it? If this is all untrue then who made it up and why? And why would people get faux outraged over something they hadn't confirmed?
Oh. GDC sounds like a blast
Worse, is when Misguided refused to to update his OP, even when asked repeatedly to do so. If you're going to make a thread, at least update the damn thing.Twitter "news" needs to be banned from GAF. People make up shit, goes on Twitter, someone reports it here - cycle repeats. Guess Notch got the short end of this shit stick.
Making the assumption that a group of pretty women at a party must have been paid to be there is probably the saddest (and most sexist) part of this whole debacle. The stupidity that followed afterwards was to be expected.
To me, that says a whole lot about those who originally jumped to the (false) conclusions in the first place.
Is this basically it? If this is all untrue then who made it up and why? And why would people get faux outraged over something they hadn't confirmed?
Those allegations of sexism sound pretty sexist.pretty ladies seen in vip room.
must be "paid companions"