@Itsthinking
I don’t browse SJW-stuff as much as some people here, but this thread does make me feel a little less alone in my attachment to the issue.
The thread has surely escalated numerous times, making me wish I could lock it, and the discussion is a bit lacking in people who hold more contrary ideas, but from what little I’ve observed in my inconvenient time zone, it’s been more civil than a lot of places.
On a more personal note, it seems that I’m finally catching a break in life, so I can afford to participate in this discussion more.
Though maybe I shouldn’t, I don’t know. There are a lot of better things I could do, whether or not I will do them probably does depend on the
lockedness (#wordoftheweek) of this thread
@Zennistrad
I’d agree that the reactions against some SJWs have been blown out of proportion at times. I have even seen some Tumblr users – who I wouldn’t consider extreme enough to be an SJW – get a disproportionately large negative backlash from anti-SJWs. The responses tend to not be as extreme as some infamous SJWs, I assure you, but regardless, both ends of the discussion are very much guilty of twisting each other’s words, playing victim, rantic rebuttals, favouring sass over substance, needless insults, ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, immaturity, the whole 9 yards.
This is the state of the discussion from what I’ve seen. Hell, I am probably guilty of one or two of those myself, and a lot of the popular anti-SJW bloggers probably are also. People like Tena in my opinion are more similar to their SJW couter-parts than they’d like to admit. Arguably PlebComics too, though that’s a topic for another time.
Both sides have flaws and have lost it, and admitting that is what I think is important. It’s just the way it is, and considering how immensely easy it is to share things on tumblr, the ridiculousness of some extremists is more easily seen. #SadButTrue
@twistedmetalero
I don’t think they’re really SJW-material. The way they see it Papers, Please seems fair enough. It’s not like they think the game should change or anything. Sure they seem to be more loose in their use of the term transphobia, but I still wouldn’t associate them with the people who actually do deserve the SJW label.
Look at the tags too, seems fairly understandable imo: “dont tell people definitely not purchase this game because of some transphobia, theyre not trying to promote or encourage it or anything, im pretty sure the world wasnt really educated on trans people back in the 30s, like they are today”