A peado apologist, cam model that shits on their audience is exactly what Nintendo needs for their family friendly image and customers ???

Its really more complex than that. There were many other factors at play, and no one can agree on what role the different participants had played.

I think Disney would have acted a bit more smartly, in terms of reaction. A stern warning to her, a public statement, and nobody would have to lose their job while a lawyer aims a (metaphorical) shotgun at the entire GamerGate issue, due to being an equal rights company.

Before you ask: No, Nintendo isn't an equal rights company in any capacity, and I point to Metroid: Other M as all the evidence I need.

Ah ok my bad, I thought it was somehow linked to the Fire Emblem "translation" fiasco.

Lawyering up against an amorphous internet movement? GG isn't even a legal person.

Worker rights are reflected in the games they make? Thats a good observation. We must push to make it legally actionable for companies producing games that in the opinion of self appointed critics ''represent women poorly'' to be sued for gender discrimination.

It kinda is. You see, some gamergaters took part in the campaign against her too, and everyone in GG is / was very angry about the FEF fiasco. That is why you can see some journalists pinning the whole blame on GG instead of a more accurate part. Official response to the FEF was Op.Torrential Downpour which is much more constructive.

On the whole Alison Rapp thing I began to have conflicted feelings from the moment some GG supporters suggested she should be fired for her views. I mean, I never liked when she stood in defense of Treehouse's botched localization, but I thought the ones who deserved to be fired were the ones who localized the games. The problem is that they are still at large. None of them got a fair punishment, none of them got even a slap in the wrist. And then we have the moralfag elements in GG and in anti SJW movements in general doing exactly the same shit SJWs do because Rapp said she was all OK with cheese pizza. Now listen.

I have stated several times here I have nothing against sexualization of fictional children, pubescent minors having a sex life that may or may include adults as long as the minor is the one in charge, and adults feeling attraction to pubescent minors. Where I draw the line and Rapp stated she does not, is the act of recording in any form sexual acts with minors in order to make money out of them or to distribute said content and against real life sexual acts with prepubescent minors. However that does not mean I think she deserves to be fired for being stupid, she deserved a call for Nintendo asking her to shut up about that, but not getting fired.

As I said, everyone lost, or at least GG lost with this one. We are being linked to it even when most of us are against firing people because a faction within us decided to support a witch hunt which is actually in conflict with some of our supposed core values.

And in fact some GG supporters have spoken against that. For example Mundane Matt. He said this was unfair.

Its for the greater good, so people do it.

couldn't resist

Such concepts of duty and personal responsibility are ironically hugely alien in today's society that gives lip service to all sorts of larger than life causes. The personal is political. Personalize, polarize, etc... Tolerance is support. Allowing free speech is agreement. Yadah, yadah...

I keep saying it's all mostly caused by an almost fetishization of individual subjective perception over objective universal reality. We need more community, more tolerance, more honest communication, more transparency and openenness.

Alternatively we will collectively move towards removing a lot of the democratic and individual empowerment that accumulated in the past decades. Whether that will take the form of contraceptive limitations, speech limitations, movement limitation, or whatever else... is too relative and dependent on specifc sociopolitic and geopolitic factors.

And not surprisingly most of pushback I always got in these topics was always for pointing out how the rejection of objectivity in journalism was the core truth of GG. The fact that Ethics in Journalism became ridiculed almost from the get go was tragic as hell - sure some people use such keywords pejoratively, just like the other side can use SJW pejoratively. But fundamentally it shows a huge disconnect on the premises, a gap I try to bridge by attempting to highlight how deep the chasm actually goes, more often than not only causing vertigo and nausea to all involved. :(

Look no further, it's all in this thread...

You are, once again, sorely mistaken. :(

From Alison Rapp's thesis conclusion: This is exactly your position, I would assume.

Sounds refreshingly sane.

I must admit that you are right. Our positions are very similar if that is what she said (Which is quite different to what others claim she said), however I do believe there should be some sort of penalty to those who own the real thing. I mean, not treating them as we treat molesters, producers and distributers, but maybe a lower penalty and using them to track the source. In the end the distribution of the real thing and it's production for monetary purposes as well as all sex acts with prepubescents are what I can't tolerate. That is where I set the limit.