“Straight Male Gamer” told to ‘get over it’ by BioWare

BioWare logoAnd if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don’t see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what’s everyone’s fuss all about? That’s the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want.

The best thing is that if I’d not mentioned “gamer” in the title you’d have no idea that this quote was from a a video game company message board. Read the full post @ feministing.com.

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