Hey, Era I'm back with another thread to talk about some murky feelings I've been meaning to get off my chest.
As you know I made a massive thread that's still pinned about how poorly treated minorities on era are treated and the low key racism and bigotry that occurs on the site. Another thing that popped up in that thread is Era's obsession with brands and their loyalty drowning out voices that can directly relate to the topic at hand. We discussed how trans voices are shut down when it came to GTA5 but really the big issue is to me is that people want to cling to games like the last of us 2 and argue fiercely in favor of their game viewing their sole viewpoint as the only correct one.
This is a difficult habit to break and I find that a lot of the frustrations on the site has been linked to that on the gaming side. Now, as far as the general issue of the topic is that there is this idea that nobody is allowed to have opinions that detract from the main overall viewpoint that many users have agreed on.
This has lead to others criticizing people and jumping the gun on others when relevant information is brought to the topic at hand. You see this with game journalists with the myriad of Tlou2 threads that pop up and the outright venom folks have when some of the trans community speaks up over issues that they would be more knowledgeable of due to their own personal experience with the issue(the example here being with Lev who I feel isn't a very good addition to trans inclusivity when the problem is how harshly people deal with him in the game. This is in a long line of trans characters being mistreated in media and the lack of positive experiences makes this yet another soulless addition to the pile.) We can go further and talk about brand loyalty with excusing atrocities in favor of getting the next thing (this was especially apparent with the console thread about Uighurs being forced to produce more consoles.) Another example would be the Harry Potter game incident that has divided Era over whether they should give money to the game or not (you shouldn't) when the money directly lines the pocket of a hateful woman who thinks trans women aren't real women.
These are just one of many problems Era as a community faces on a daily basis and is exactly why I've decided to make another thread that directly tackles this issue.
I feel genuinely frustrated and I just want to vent I guess and hopefully foster a productive conversation when I genuinely feel like I don't want to post on the site(especially gaming side) because of how hostile folks can be when dealing with issues.
I will not be including links to examples this time around apologies.
As you know I made a massive thread that's still pinned about how poorly treated minorities on era are treated and the low key racism and bigotry that occurs on the site. Another thing that popped up in that thread is Era's obsession with brands and their loyalty drowning out voices that can directly relate to the topic at hand. We discussed how trans voices are shut down when it came to GTA5 but really the big issue is to me is that people want to cling to games like the last of us 2 and argue fiercely in favor of their game viewing their sole viewpoint as the only correct one.
This is a difficult habit to break and I find that a lot of the frustrations on the site has been linked to that on the gaming side. Now, as far as the general issue of the topic is that there is this idea that nobody is allowed to have opinions that detract from the main overall viewpoint that many users have agreed on.
This has lead to others criticizing people and jumping the gun on others when relevant information is brought to the topic at hand. You see this with game journalists with the myriad of Tlou2 threads that pop up and the outright venom folks have when some of the trans community speaks up over issues that they would be more knowledgeable of due to their own personal experience with the issue(the example here being with Lev who I feel isn't a very good addition to trans inclusivity when the problem is how harshly people deal with him in the game. This is in a long line of trans characters being mistreated in media and the lack of positive experiences makes this yet another soulless addition to the pile.) We can go further and talk about brand loyalty with excusing atrocities in favor of getting the next thing (this was especially apparent with the console thread about Uighurs being forced to produce more consoles.) Another example would be the Harry Potter game incident that has divided Era over whether they should give money to the game or not (you shouldn't) when the money directly lines the pocket of a hateful woman who thinks trans women aren't real women.
These are just one of many problems Era as a community faces on a daily basis and is exactly why I've decided to make another thread that directly tackles this issue.
I feel genuinely frustrated and I just want to vent I guess and hopefully foster a productive conversation when I genuinely feel like I don't want to post on the site(especially gaming side) because of how hostile folks can be when dealing with issues.
I will not be including links to examples this time around apologies.
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