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There’s a certain unrest in the games industry at the moment. Companies and CEOs are being held accountable for the way they’re treating their employees, and especially employees that are marginalized. Some may think that holding an entire company responsible for the statement of one or just a few employees is a bit harsh. Experience... Continue Reading →
Believe it or not, but this is a phrase that I’ve actually used in a professional context. Suffice to say I was very angry at the time, and I have since apologized to the individual I aimed it at. Not because I think that they did take responsibility and were accountable, but because it was... Continue Reading →
Note: I will be using the term "woman" a lot in this post, in part because articles and research tend to use a gender binary. I do however recognise that the biases women face are biases all marginalised groups face in equal or greater measure. Stop me if you've heard this before: "Yeah, he's an... Continue Reading →
[..] for the purpose of this discussion I'm more interested in the kind of attitude that underlies and perpetuates mansplaining. And my answer, in short, is entitlement: entitlement of the epistemic variety, which relates to knowledge, beliefs, and the possession of information. - Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Mann Raise your hand if... Continue Reading →
Gaslighting is a colloquialism for a specific type of manipulation where the manipulator is successful in having the target (a person or a group of people) question their own reality, memory or perceptions. There is often a power dynamic in gaslighting where the target is vulnerable because they are fearful of losses associated with challenging... Continue Reading →
CW: Harassment, exclusion. This is a difficult set of posts for me to write, because they admit to my own complicity in a culture I desperately want to change. To understand gaming, the games industry and the gaming culture it’s necessary to understand some of the backstory of the nerd culture. We’ve been considered underdogs... Continue Reading →
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