>>317587
>Seriously, these people are promoting the notion that there's a feminist conspiracy to censor your Japanese video games.
I know. Crazy, right? (this move is also known as "it's totally not what's going on, I can explain honey")
But this one time, it's actually true: pretending someone is going for your games is a flat-out lie. like anyone would wiggle their way through an argument not calling "censorship" censorship… come on.
>"In Japan, we see this as the exporting of Japanese culture," she observed. "While culture can be exported, sexism cannot. We always need to consider the impact exported games can have on the community as a whole," Sarkeesian continued.
>Do game companies have any moral or ethical obligations? After a brief pause and a laugh, Sarkeesian responded: "I would love for companies to have moral restrictions, but they don’t."
http://archive.is/BOQ8O#selection-1293.0-1293.344
http://archive.is/BOQ8O#selection-1329.109-1341.127
Regulating freedom doesn't restrict freedom, you're still free to create whatever you want. That would be censorship otherwise, and nobody likes that right?
>Aaaand another email reads: "Social justice warriors are all literally silencing reddit, SA, GB, 4chan and most other outlets out there."
>@femfreq well, we can dream, anyway
>@gamoid @femfreq We can only dream.
>etc.
http://archive.is/wkfdm#selection-723.0-723.137
…okay, maybe the whole "conspiracy" thing sounds crazy because you're making it too specific. "Japanese video games". That's too specific.
A few "innocent" articles on the Dead Or Alive spin-of Extreme Beach Volleyball surely won't have any effect on their sales… I'm also positively inclined to believe those "top-x" articles are only covering the exact same games by the most incredible coincidence, and not by some kind of parrot game (implying they wouldn't do their own original research? that's slender, how dare you sir?)
http://archive.is/56Y0q#selection-1115.0-1117.0 (2011)
http://archive.is/u6sWz#selection-427.0-427.41 (2012)
http://archive.is/wjD7P#selection-517.0-517.230 (2012)
http://archive.is/VHcIg#selection-317.0-317.85 (2012)
http://archive.is/LumOf#selection-2419.0-2427.35 (2013)
http://archive.is/9uhCu#selection-1073.3-1073.41 (2014)
http://archive.is/4Jbc5#selection-2353.3-2353.31 (2014)
http://archive.is/JfwmA#selection-383.0-383.58 (2015)
And of course, no, it didn't have any effect whatsoever:
http://archive.is/Bq1BB#selection-435.0-435.58 (2015)
http://archive.is/XAqMm#selection-621.0-621.54 (2015)
As you guess, a well established and respected franchise such as Street Fighter is completely safe.
http://archive.is/qqSFJ#selection-1401.0-1401.303
Come on, would you imagine if they censored art books? Ahah. No way.
http://operationrainfall.com/2016/02/26/localized-bravely-second-art-book-receives-edits/
Nothing to see here, so let's move to the west. Remember this tele-seminar by some self proclaimed feminist critic/scam artist?
>Returning to the Grand Theft Auto franchise, you can buy a prostituted woman, use her for sex, gain the health and stat boost, then murder her to get your money back.
>In this way these systems work to facilitate male violence against women by turning it into a form of play, something constructed to be amusing and entertaining.
>It is fuelling the epidemic of violence experienced by so many girls and women in Australia - and globally.
http://archive.is/Y2gKO#selection-1021.0-1021.166
http://archive.is/Y2gKO#selection-1035.0-1035.161
http://archive.is/f1Elm#selection-539.1-539.108
It was followed shortly after by a petition to get GTA V banned from Target, and it does bare an odd resemblance to the previous argument:
>It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get "health" points
>options to kill women by punching her unconscious, killing with a machete, bat or guns to get their money returned.
>Sexual and domestic violence is at epidemic levels in the real world
http://archive.is/f1Elm#selection-461.71-461.186
http://archive.is/f1Elm#selection-477.0-483.108
http://archive.is/7GXN0#selection-841.0-841.68
And of course, the game is still available, as repeating almost word for word a misrepresentation didn't have any effect:
http://archive.is/I01LN#selection-347.0-347.40
In definitive, there's nothing happening, and people are reacting over non-happenings things. They are just promoting the notion that there's a feminist conspiracy to censor things at large.
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/12/street-fighter-5-censorship-sees-gamers-angry-with-sjws-for-ruining-gaming/
…
Seriously?
The kind of media I enjoy is my own fucking problem, not yours.