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Pong: The Original Source of Video Game Bigotry Similar to Polygon's statement that "all video games are stupid" I'd like to state that "all video games are racist and sexist." All of them. You see the problem stems from the very first successful video game back in 1972. While there were games before Pong, it can be said Pong is when the industry truly begun. It's massive success lead to video games exploding in popularity. Without Pong it is reasonable to assume that video games would not be as popular nor the industry be as large as it is today. However, while video games since have copied Pong's formula for success, in doing so they have also brought over Pong's awful bigotry resulting in all modern video games having horrendous social issues. Let's start with Pongs horrible racism and diversity problem. In Pong you can are either one of two white protagonists. There are no people of colour in this game at all. Diversity is non-existent. It's as if this game was designed by Stormfront. Not only are you two white men (more on that later) you are playing over a "black" background. This is obviously a metaphor for the white man completely running over black people as if they were nothing. Think about how much whites stand out when black people are put in the back. This was all purposely done to symbolize white superiority Now in regards to Pong's sexism problem you may wonder how anyone could assume that the player characters in Pong are male given their complete lack of detail. Well if you are wondering that you obviously don't possess a progressive mind like mine, that can find bigotry and outrage in even the minutest details (it truly is a curse). The two Pong "paddles" are clearly two phalluses which are a representation of male sexuaity. This also re-iterates the white male patriarchy Now you may assume that this game has no female representation which makes it sexist but the truth is actually far worse. You see as Jonathan McIntosh, and later Anita stated (it's uncanny, it's like they're the same person!), "In the game of patriarchy, women are the ball." So that ball that you're hitting around is actually a woman, a woman being passed around from one male to the other by being slapped around by a hard white penis. Children were being taught at a young age that passing a woman around like currency was fun Even more horribly sexist is the scoring system. If you manage to hit the woman so hard she avoids being r---- by the other player you get a point. Do this enough and you win. It demonstrates that the most important thing is the patriarchal domination of females. You are meant to own that woman/ball and wreck her so hard that "if you can't have her, no one else can." It would have been better there were no females in the game instead we get a deplorable domestic violence simulator To further prove the point of sexism look at the controller for the home version of Pong does it remind you of anything? (Once again you may need a "progressive mind" to notice this.) The home controller is clearly two breasts that you are meant to fondle to play and have fun. The twisting nob is clearly a nipple, areola and all. Even worse is the idea that you're meant to harass this controller with a friend or family at the same time. If sexual molestation isn't bad enough, Pong was teaching people that for maximum enjoyment you need to double team the woman It is no wonder that video games are the atrocious cesspool of racism and misogyny they currently are when Pong was what started it all. This appalling, ghastly piece of technical bigotry was the grandfather of all modern games so I think it is fair to blame it for the downfall of all humanity. If only Gone Home was that original trendsetting game back in 1972 then video games wouldn't need saving Read more high quality journalism on STOPGAMERGATE.com

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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