Thread by @skrutsick

Love when people tell those of us affected how they’re going to support us by ignoring the ways we ask them to support us and by just doing whatever they want so they can feel righteous somehow. Thanks for the support and allyship. 👍

I’M JUST SO TIRED, Y’ALL

Using us as an excuse to cancel a sub that you (according to your own shit) were going to cancel anyway isn’t the supportive gesture you think it is. Especially when most of us are like, please, support and play and enjoy our work made with blood, sweat, and literal tears.

Like, GG making it clear the contributions of assholes are more important and more of an impact to you than the contributions of all of us women and marginalized people and non-assholes. So much so that you want to ignore our efforts and erase our work to feel righteous yourself.

Lift up the work of the people who are crying out for change, who poured their hearts into it, who endured all that just to bring online the games you play. Why should those predators’ work be deemed of more impact? Why should they overshadow the efforts of so many others?

“Oh these guys really suck. Let’s just go ahead and erase and ignore and not play the content made by all the women and other marginalized groups and not terrible people who poured all their passion into them, despite those shitty guys making it even harder.”

“These guys and that culture made it really hard for you to do these things, but you did them anyway, you still put your whole soul into them, but nah… their impact on it was greater and more important than yours in my mind, so I’m just not gonna play them.”

“I’m not gonna be vocal or write letters to lift up marginalized voices or take real action in my daily life of donate to causes that help defend women against sexist practices or make sure I’m changing the culture in real ways by calling out toxic behavior and examine myself.”

“I’m just gonna boycott because I was probably gonna cancel anyway the content sucked anyway lol”

How about find the women responsible for the content and give them praise. How about donate to RAINN. How about call out toxic rape culture online and in real life. How about …

*or donate

How make clear via your vocal and public outcry that you are supporting the women and other marginalized groups who have had to fight ten times as hard to get their work recognized - and that you appreciate them and want to play their content, use their services, recognize them.

I’m just so goddamned tired, y’all.

Stop being performative and symbolic so you can feel like you’ve been righteous and actually do righteous things. Actually support women in the games industry and their work by consuming it. Actually make real change in your real life.

*how about make clear

You’re gonna let shitty cis men who are predators & conveyors of a toxic culture dominate the women and marginalized folx who contributed the majority of the content? Really? You’re going to let their work overshadow the others’? That’s all of world history. Don’t continue it.