Current Events > Female game developer fired for calling other women "pretty"

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http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/09/female-game-developer-fired-for-calling-other-women-pretty/

wtf is this? Women can't even call other women pretty now? When will the gaming industry stop being so cucked smh
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"There's not enough female representation!"

*hires women*
*catty bitches get each other fired*

"Wahhhhh"
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Fair, next. Women can sexually harass other women and should be punished appropriately.

Women in games is about to start! Gamedev ladies, join us and meet the pretty side of #gamedev

You think that deserves being fired over?

MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. MORE SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!!!!
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So fucking petty.

If there was issue, just ask them to be more mindful in future
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

"There's not enough female representation!"

*hires women*
*catty bitches get each other fired*

"Wahhhhh"

lol
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See Trump supporters. This is actually SJWism here, SJW doesn't mean "anyone with progressive views ".
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Fair, next. Women can sexually harass other women and should be punished appropriately.

She wasn't sexually harassing anyone. All she did was send a tweet promoting a game panel with female devs saying "come meet the pretty side of #gamedev!"
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Fair, next. Women can sexually harass other women and should be punished appropriately.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

"There's not enough female representation!"

*hires women*
*catty bitches get each other fired*

"Wahhhhh"

This isn't what happened. She made a tweet calling a panel of female game developers the "pretty side of game development"

It's not like she was fired for trying to give a coworker a compliment.
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BeautifulBlaze posted...

JustMyOpinion posted...

Fair, next. Women can sexually harass other women and should be punished appropriately.

She wasn't sexually harassing anyone. All she did was send a tweet promoting a game panel with female devs saying "come meet the pretty side of #gamedev!"

and that got a bunch of negative reception

so they axed her
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Fuck, it's so toxic nowadays. What she said was completely innocuous, and people overreacted because outrage culture reigns supreme nowadays.
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Millennials have taken Special Snowflake Syndrome to a whole new level.
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I thought women being prettier then men was a universally recognized thing. This is such a harmless thing to say and is more insulting to men than the women. Men can be pretty too!
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Yes, I do. It demeans their accomplishments. The focus is on game developing, not their looks. Fair, next

So just have a quiet word to her to be more mindful in future
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Yes, I do. It demeans their accomplishments. The focus is on game developing, not their looks. Fair, next.

Women can be pretty and* developers.
It's a tongue in cheek, cutesy inflection, it has nothing to do the the value on those women . . .
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you fucking moron
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Eventually feminism is going to cannibalize itself.
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Alucard188 posted...

Fuck, it's so toxic nowadays. What she said was completely innocuous, and people overreacted because outrage culture reigns supreme nowadays.

TRIBALISM GOOOD.
DISSENT BADDDDD.

NO dongle jokes. NO women looking. NO UN-COMFORT EVER.
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Melonfarms posted...

I thought women being prettier then men was a universally recognized thing. This is such a harmless thing to say and is more insulting to men than the women. Men can be pretty too!

Yeah, what about all the beautiful, pretty men in game development? This is discrimination!
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even if you think it would demean the women for calling them pretty, it's not the same thing when a fellow woman says it. it's quite obvious by how she said it, that she groups herself in with the pretty side. so if she is demeaning, she's also demeaning herself.

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"transgender game developers like No Mans Skys Innes McKendrick,"

hmm
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Honestly this is why I play mainly Japanese games and no longer associate myself with Americans (it's not just Americans I'm using that as an example since I live here) everyone gets way to upset about stupid shit.

I blame the internet I know people want to say everyone has a voice or opinion but most of the time it's a shit opinion that shouldn't be given a platform (including my own I've said some dumb stuff over the years)
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Tezlok posted...

it's not the same thing when a fellow woman says it

i'm glad it is, because overreach like this will lead to a more rational approach to the process in the future.

meanwhile, i'll continue to not buy no man's sky at any price
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Petty and pretty it would seem.
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This is satire
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Pathetic
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Her comment was dumb but she didnt deserve to be fired over it.

Wasn't the Daily Caller that White Supremacist website?
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How hard is it to not comment on someone's physical appearance at work? I certainly wouldnt say "here's my handsome team of men!"

Its an overreaction for sure, but it still baffles me that people cant control what they say at work. Anything relating to physical appearance can be an HR issue.
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Darkman124 posted...

i'm glad it is, because overreach like this will lead to a more rational approach to the process in the future.

This.

One thing that is horribly overlooked in any type of movement is that before you can get the other side to listen to you, you first need full support from your own side.

So while it's a great sign that more and more men get on board with gender equality and the like, none of that will make a difference if women can't pull in other women; and right now (as has been for quite some time) women down for the cause seem to be trying to drag their comrades along rather than creating a real dialogue with them that helps actually bridge the gap.

But what the hell do I know - I'm not a woman *shrugs*
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epik_fail1 posted...

See Trump supporters. This is actually SJWism here, SJW doesn't mean "anyone with progressive views ".

As opposed to BLM demanding the houses of white people?

Or calling mid-terms white supremacy?

Or making misgendering more criminal than knowingly giving someone HIV?

Or saying someone is a rapist for kissing a woman who had a glass of wine?
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Other feminists in game development soon piled on, stating that Wiznerowiczs use of the word pretty diminished their professional accomplishments.

Her innocuous tweet was met with immediate fury from transgender game developers like No Mans Skys Innes McKendrick, who assumed Wiznerowiczs gender, and demanded that she shut the hell up and listens to them.

So women have been complaining about men dominating games development, being bullied, harrassed and what not. But apparantly THEY are the problem. Holy fucking shit, reading the above two paragraphs made me think it was satire, but this bullshit is real..
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

JustMyOpinion posted...

Fair, next. Women can sexually harass other women and should be punished appropriately.

Women in games is about to start! Gamedev ladies, join us and meet the pretty side of #gamedev

You think that deserves being fired over?

MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. MORE SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!!!!

Yes, I do. It demeans their accomplishments. The focus is on game developing, not their looks. Fair, next.

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.
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Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.
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That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.

it was a woman that did it though. so it's different. and she was just joking on twitter. and she includes herself in the "pretty side". it's not the same as a man saying it at all

This is why trump won
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So she got fired for saying women including herself are pretty? What a world.
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That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.

If someone calls you pretty, and the takeaway you get is, "this person's complinent on my looks diminishes my accomplishments", then you are the problem. Because if you cannot seperate how you look, from what you have achieved, that is on you.
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That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.

That's nonsense. Praising or mentioning one quality of a person doesn't disparage or diminish their other qualities. A woman can be pretty and accomplished.

The backlash this person received over an innocuous remark is ridiculous.

What does that popular video say? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but there will always be something to offend a feminist. "
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Esrac posted...

That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.

That's nonsense. Praising or mentioning one quality of a person doesn't disparage or diminish their other qualities.

Look buddy, repeating yourself doesn't make you correct. Re-read my post if you're having trouble.
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Everyone in their blind rage to denounce SJWs is forgetting the simple fact that commenting on co-workers personal appearance is not acceptable in the vast majority of work places. Intent is irrelevant.
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That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

That_Happened posted...

Esrac posted...

Saying someone is pretty does nothing to demean their accomplishments.

It can actually, when you're supposed to be talking about their abilities. For example if you introduce a female doctor as "beautiful" then you're suggesting her looks are the most important thing about her, or the first thing worth mentioning. This happens to women regularly.

That's nonsense. Praising or mentioning one quality of a person doesn't disparage or diminish their other qualities.

Look buddy, repeating yourself doesn't make you correct. Re-read my post if you're having trouble.

Rereading your post won't make it correct.
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People get upset at the dumbest shit.
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Esrac posted...

Rereading your post won't make it correct.

Imagine if you were introduced to people as "this is my friend Esrac, the guy who loves My Little Pony." (Note, I don't know if you actually watch MLP. I'm just using it as an example).

At this point, it doesn't matter what you've accomplished, how good your grades are, how nice of a guy you are. I've just told people that you're a grown man who enjoys a little girl's TV show, and that's what is going to stick in their minds about you for a while and it's going to take a while for them to take you seriously as a person.

This is the basis for a lot of those Ricky Gervais jokes from when he hosts award shows, and why they're so funny. "Our next presenter is the only person Ben Affleck has remained faithful to, it's Matt Damon!" He doesn't say Ben Affleck is an actor or director, he says Ben is a serial cheater and that's what people should pay attention to. "When Brad and Angelina see our next two presenters, they're going to want to adopt them. Please welcome Kevin Hart and Ken Jeong." Gervais is saying "forget these people are accomplished actors--two of them make a point of adopting multicultural children, and the other two are comically short men."

If "mentioning one quality of a person didn't disparage or diminish their other qualities", then those jokes wouldn't work. But they do, and they're hilarious, because that's exactly what he's doing. When you're talking about a professional, but you talk about their appearance first, you're doing something similar.
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