themarysue:

Tauriq Moosa: “I am getting more hatred for wanting more colours in a fantasy game than I did writing about the death penalty.”

So, I know the articles about this hashtag have mostly focused on how predictably bad the conversation has gone so far, but I’d just like to stop and say how happy I am that we’re actually starting to have this conversation. Industry-wide discussions on diversity in gaming have focused almost exclusively on gender, sexism, and sexuality, while gaming’s other huge tentpole “-ism” has gone (relatively) under the radar. Obviously people have been talking about the games industry’s problems with race, but by and large those issues have been much less visible than those surrounding gender and LGBT+ issues.

So yeah, asshats may be acting like asshats, but I’m still happy we’re talking about this. And besides, between the first wave of abuse against Anita Sarkeesian and GamerGate, we’ve seen plenty of examples where asshats blatantly exhibiting their asshattery has accelerated positive change, both by forcing uncomfortable discussions and by viscerally demonstrating the problem, such that people on the sidelines are no longer able to pretend it doesn’t exist.



(Source: themarysue.com)