"Some of you give weight to the notion that gamers are illiterate (male) teenagers who look for an escape from the normal world in front of screens and are allergic to any complexity being displayed on them other than explosions and good old stereotypes."
The Cost of Being a Man (Or Anyone, Realy) Who Discusses VideoGames Online.
People who don't know a damn thing about me mindlessly brand me as an illiterate teenager who looks for an escape from the normal world in front of screens and is allergic to any complexity being displayed on them other than explosions and good old stereotypes.
Basically stripping away an context or meaning to any points I might make to score some cheap points by implying I am an illiterate simpleton who just wants mindless entertainment because it's all I can appreciate.
That's FINE though. Nothing to see here.
What's hilarious to me is that yours and
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posts are actually a complete and very effective refutation of her article.
It's seems "women" are not the only ones who can't give an opinion without someone coming in to jump all over it and make disingenuous replies etc.
So you proved that she is wrong. You proved that the very premise of her article is misguided. Well done.
I mean, here you are on a website where people get ripped on for supporting Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony or for having opinions on pretty much every major game release and yet ONLY when it's a female game journalist on the end of some spicy replies does anyone think it's suddenly a bad thing.
"I'll defend her point that it's tough for women to cover videogames by, with no self-awareness whatsoever, ripping on bunch of other people giving their opinions."
Well done lads.