(megapost incoming, careful on 56k!)
So this is disappointing...Radical Reggie (most known for his involvement on MetalJesusRocks' channel) recently did a video on the viral footage of the Gamestop tiff with a transgendered woman.
With this thumbnail:
With the title "Transgender person* threatens gamestop employee"
*later changed to woman
...yeah
And of course throughout the video he misgenders her repeatedly. He seemed to come at it from the angle of having worked in retail and not liking staff treated poorly, which is fair...but it still come across as clickbaity and exploitative, especially with the emphasis on the customer being a transgender person.
Of course he got a little bit of blowback (and I do mean little, this was alongside a mountain of unbelievably gross transphobic comments as you can imagine), and the MJR crew responds as such:
Credit where credit's due, Kinsey+both Johns were very reasonable and supportive here, Kelsey was too although I couldn't find her reply (EDIT: Here we go). MJR seemed to tackle it more from a PR angle, which further felt a bit gross with this tweet:
"I was saddened to see how many people took the opportunity today to try and create drama and try and tear us apart. "
The only concern he seemed to express from this is having to exert any kind of damage control, with no consideration seemingly given to the topic at hand. Framing it as someone just trying to cause drama feels super disingenuous, and of course that rallying of the troops has lead to the video's critic receiving a death threat.
Reggie's doubled down himself, not really making much of an effort to apologise, liking tweets that agreed with him which usually bemoan people are too sensitive these days (yep, including an SJW dropping one ._.) and then tweeting this:
So yeah, bummer eh? :/ Probably not as extreme as many examples posted in this thread but as a big MJR fan I'm really disappointed with how this was handled. Was super hopeful on Reggie tackling it with grace as he always seems so chill...
So this is disappointing...Radical Reggie (most known for his involvement on MetalJesusRocks' channel) recently did a video on the viral footage of the Gamestop tiff with a transgendered woman.
With this thumbnail:
With the title "Transgender person* threatens gamestop employee"
*later changed to woman
...yeah
And of course throughout the video he misgenders her repeatedly. He seemed to come at it from the angle of having worked in retail and not liking staff treated poorly, which is fair...but it still come across as clickbaity and exploitative, especially with the emphasis on the customer being a transgender person.
Of course he got a little bit of blowback (and I do mean little, this was alongside a mountain of unbelievably gross transphobic comments as you can imagine), and the MJR crew responds as such:
Credit where credit's due, Kinsey+both Johns were very reasonable and supportive here, Kelsey was too although I couldn't find her reply (EDIT: Here we go). MJR seemed to tackle it more from a PR angle, which further felt a bit gross with this tweet:
"I was saddened to see how many people took the opportunity today to try and create drama and try and tear us apart. "
The only concern he seemed to express from this is having to exert any kind of damage control, with no consideration seemingly given to the topic at hand. Framing it as someone just trying to cause drama feels super disingenuous, and of course that rallying of the troops has lead to the video's critic receiving a death threat.
Reggie's doubled down himself, not really making much of an effort to apologise, liking tweets that agreed with him which usually bemoan people are too sensitive these days (yep, including an SJW dropping one ._.) and then tweeting this:
So yeah, bummer eh? :/ Probably not as extreme as many examples posted in this thread but as a big MJR fan I'm really disappointed with how this was handled. Was super hopeful on Reggie tackling it with grace as he always seems so chill...
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