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holsta | 7 months ago

> Both extremes want the same thing.

Citation needed. The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around identical pay, being able to walk down the street without getting assaulted or being able to work without being harassed or discriminated against.

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pseudo0|7 months ago

Feminist groups also regularly try to get games banned from Steam, typically for sexism or violence against women. Eg.

> Women in Games CEO Dr Marie-Claire Isaaman has called on Valve to “act urgently” and remove the game from Steam, saying the game’s content “is not only vile and dangerous, but also actively promotes the dehumanisation of women and girls.”

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/women-in-games-call...

holsta|7 months ago

When you start digging past their marketing material, you quickly discover that these organisations are just right-wing fronts, against trans-people, against abortion.

Here's a 38 minute video that walks through some of the recent major incidents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk

Feminists would not campaign to take down games (with zero sexual content) about queer lives made by queer people.

zahlman|7 months ago

>The 'extreme' feminism & LGBT tends to revolve around

There are countless statements from feminist authority figures that are impossible to reconcile with this claim. But HN is not the place to have this argument, or even to attempt to turn it into a discussion; and elsewhere on the Internet, I have repeatedly seen people persecuted as misogynists simply for collating such evidence.

Forgeties79|7 months ago

It’s very easy to make everyone you agree with sound incredibly reasonable when you don’t have to give any examples of when they showed their true colors.