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On December 12 2010 06:56 ZlaSHeR wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2010 21:16 nath wrote:
i wish cammomile and jasmine teas were popular in the US so girls could be less bitchy.
i will be a lemming and /adore FakeSteve's response, he took a lot of time to completely deconstruct the fallacies in peanut's statements, although a lot of the refutations were slightly subjective -- i can't help but agree with it. Don't think that was the point, the point is that NOBODY said a thing til a red posted a long rant, and all fo a sudden YEAHHH CLAPPING GIFS AND AGREEING WITH FS.
Nobody said a thing about the boring blog post until somebody made an interesting post. People can get upset about anything if they want to.
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On December 12 2010 10:08 Jpizzle wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2010 06:56 ZlaSHeR wrote:On December 11 2010 21:16 nath wrote:
i wish cammomile and jasmine teas were popular in the US so girls could be less bitchy.
i will be a lemming and /adore FakeSteve's response, he took a lot of time to completely deconstruct the fallacies in peanut's statements, although a lot of the refutations were slightly subjective -- i can't help but agree with it. Don't think that was the point, the point is that NOBODY said a thing til a red posted a long rant, and all fo a sudden YEAHHH CLAPPING GIFS AND AGREEING WITH FS. Nobody said a thing about the boring blog post until somebody made an interesting post. People can get upset about anything if they want to.
wut r u talking about me and coag both said it was dumb before fs said anything
ur just a sheep
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5: An "I hated this blog before it was cool to hate this blog" bandwagon.
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On December 12 2010 10:13 Lemonwalrus wrote:
5: An "I hated this blog before it was cool to hate this blog" bandwagon.
you're going to start a bandwagon naming bandwagon if you keep this up LW
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Infinite bandwagon recursion incoming o.o
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lol all I said is I am friends with fakesteve, and am openly male, so how the heck am I a "sheep"? At no point did I state whether I agree or not with his post, or the OP's. Maybe u should read my post before becoming some holy crusader of message boards.
And for the record: Since when is agreeing with somebody a bad thing that should be shamed by others? If somebody raises a good point and people agree with them, why would you try and belittle them by saying they are lemmings or sheep? I really hate the internet sometimes.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
a bandwagon is when people unite and follow something merely because the majority is
this is certainly not the case here
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On December 12 2010 06:56 ZlaSHeR wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2010 21:16 nath wrote:
i wish cammomile and jasmine teas were popular in the US so girls could be less bitchy.
i will be a lemming and /adore FakeSteve's response, he took a lot of time to completely deconstruct the fallacies in peanut's statements, although a lot of the refutations were slightly subjective -- i can't help but agree with it. Don't think that was the point, the point is that NOBODY said a thing til a red posted a long rant, and all fo a sudden YEAHHH CLAPPING GIFS AND AGREEING WITH FS.
Thinking something is one thing, but if you can't articulate it well enough or don't care enough or can't be bothered to read the blogs you're not going to fuck it up with a 5 line post.
I think you're just jealous whatever you probably posted didn't get any love!
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konadora
Singapore66072 Posts
i cant keep my mouth closed
that was amazing
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I finally got around to reading this post because it keeps showing up at the top of the blogs page, and I disagree with SO much of it that I really don't know where to start. First things first, Rosa Parks and Susan Boyle? How in the fuck do you mention both these people in the same breath? This is so ridiculous that it's actually sickening me, and your problem with them being mentioned as examples of women leaders because they're not "gamers"? What the fuuuuuuuuu? How in the hell does this apply here? Gaming is a hobby, it's something you do for fun, it is not an identity, it is not a skillset, it is not a job, and it is not to ever be compared to being a civil rights hero or even a CEO of a company.
Playing games regardless of gender doesn't translate into some heroic thing we need to discuss and champion. Being SUCCESSFUL despite some adversity on the other hand is something worth mentioning, but being a 'girl' is not enough to be considered adversity. Being a girl who happens to play games is also NOT adversity. Girls who play games aren't some hero martyrs, and being a gamer isn't something to use as a crutch or an excuse. It's just a hobby.
Edit: OK I scrolled down and read FakeSteve's post and I ended up deleting everything I was typing because he basically perfectly articulated most of what I wanted to say. Man.
Edit2: Alright I guess I am pretty late to this but I always read the OP before reading the entire thread and I had to reply immediately.
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On December 12 2010 11:59 Zim23 wrote:
I finally got around to reading this post because it keeps showing up at the top of the blogs page, and I disagree with SO much of it that I really don't know where to start. First things first, Rosa Parks and Susan Boyle? How in the fuck do you mention both these people in the same breath? This is so ridiculous that it's actually sickening me, and your problem with them being mentioned as examples of women leaders because they're not "gamers"? What the fuuuuuuuuu? How in the hell does this apply here? Gaming is a hobby, it's something you do for fun, it is not an identity, it is not a skillset, it is not a job, and it is not to ever be compared to being a civil rights hero or even a CEO of a company.
Playing games regardless of gender doesn't translate into some heroic thing we need to discuss and champion. Being SUCCESSFUL despite some adversity on the other hand is something worth mentioning, but being a 'girl' is not enough to be considered adversity. Being a girl who happens to play games is also NOT adversity. Girls who play games aren't some hero martyrs, and being a gamer isn't something to use as a crutch or an excuse. It's just a hobby.
Edit: OK I scrolled down and read FakeSteve's post and I ended up deleting everything I was typing because he basically perfectly articulated most of what I wanted to say. Man.
Edit2: Alright I guess I am pretty late to this but I always read the OP before reading the entire thread and I had to reply immediately.
Bandwagon left the station days ago
this is now a thread about bandwagons.
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On December 12 2010 10:32 Rekrul wrote:
a bandwagon is when people unite and follow something merely because the majority is
this is certainly not the case here
I agree. I don't think it's a bandwagon. It's more like independent discoveries of the same thing, like paper making or the printing press. Just, one guy made a bit better paper than everyone else.
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Don't like this whole victimizing of an entire gender you're pulling throughout your post, don't like how you somehow come to the conclusion that just the mere fact that you're a minority of a community makes respect and praise something that should be a given.
I do hope you tune in next week though. I'll make a blog where I talk about being "openly male" working as a nurse, the hardships and struggles i have to go through being a minority.
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disagree, who says everyone jumped on the bandwagon behind fakesteve because hes red and has lots of posts. proper research would say for that to be confirmed this experiment would have to be replicated many times, some of them where a similar post to fakesteve's in terms of depth and language is made by someone with few posts and a regular, unfamiliar name.
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this blog is so fucking confusing. Rosa Park, Susan Boyle, FakeSteve, Banwagon and lemmings
i've read all replies like 3-4 times now and im still confused, way to derail everything
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Haemonculus is a girl? WTF when did this happen?
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On December 14 2010 09:45 synapse wrote:
Haemonculus is a girl? WTF when did this happen?
At the end of the first trimester
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I really get the impression that theirs still a lot of muted hostility towards women in the SC2 scene from this thread lol. I've seen people make posts along very similar lines concerning Cuban gamers, gay colorblind gamers, all kinds of different "gamer minorities". The same criticisms in this thread were all equally valid there.
Think some people here are just feeling threatened. Nobody likes changes in status quo.
I mean in a sense I see where its coming from. Some people are afraid of a community where ones gains prominence through the lone virtue of having a vagina in a figurative room full of nerds. I get that But at the same time, often its just plain petty.
Some of these posts in this thread seem like downright personal attacks lol.
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