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she was attacked for being part of Nintendo's marketing arm (not its localization team)

I have to wonder how many of them simply didn't know, and how many didn't care as long as someone took the fall.

The Alison Rapp case is an interesting one. Because even if you accept Gamergate's version of events completely, and all they did was go after her because she wrote something objectionable...

...then what you're left with is a group of people who claim to be guardians of free speech, wrecking someone's career because she exercised her free speech.

(Of course, in reality GG's version of events is nonsense, and what essentially happened is that a bunch of gamerbabies, upon being denied cheap fanservice, googled up "women who work at Nintendo" and decided to work out their frustrations by ruining the life of whoever's name turned up first. But, you know, in the alternate reality where everything GG says is true, their actions are STILL hypocritical and gross.)

Just something I should point out, since I think it's a gross omission in the article: From everything I have read, the thesis paper was not about "child porn." It was about other countries having no right to criticize Japan for it's laws (or lack thereof) regarding animated "child porn." Basically, she was saying that since other countries don't understand the intricacies of Japanese culture, they shouldn't criticize laws (or lack thereof) regarding hentai anime involving minors. Not actual, real-life child porn. And she wasn't speaking for/against it, just other countries' responses (again, from everything I have read, I haven't read the paper itself).

@leafy Technically, the US is not a Christian country. It is a secular state (by law) with a mere Christian majority. Christianity pre-1776 was the state religion of the colonial America, so not really the modern USA.

Also, Christianity does not mention masturbation. I dare you to find one verse in the Bible talking about such a thing. Judaism does, however. Islam is probably the most sexually free of the Abrahamic faiths (which isn't saying much), but only in the context of marriage.

Although the US is rather socially-conservative when it comes to sex, that doesn't mean that Japan is socially-liberal. Every Western European country has looser porn laws. Porn is censored, which isn't socially-liberal at all. I must stress that all of these countries have had far worse strangleholds with Christianity than the USA, yet these countries are more "socially-liberal" in terms of sex. Christianity ain't the main issue. By that stance, the secular and predominately atheist country of Japan should tolerate homosexuality more than the Jewish state that is Israel and we all know it doesn't.

Most of the time the changes implemented have no bearing on the overall experience of the game, but once I hear about a removed outfit or some change in the dialogue I can't help but dwell on that fact the entire time I am playing the game and end up pulling myself out of the narrative and spoil my own enjoyment of it.

This incident makes me hopeful that somehow these GG creeps will become as loud and obnoxious as all the other overly vocal and in your face special interests groups that it will somehow eventually force Nintendo (and other companies as well, like Square Enix and Blizzard) into catering to them as well and become more lenient with their self-censorship practices. As it stands, the moment a feminazi (different from sensible feminists that have lead to positive changes in society) or outraged parent (different from sensible parents in that their children often times end up over indulging in everything that is bad for them later on in the life since their parents have sheltered them for so long that they now have an insatiable desire to experience these bad things) makes a peep, Nintendo caves and makes a change. But if GG becomes crazed enough to match them, they might second guess their actions as it may lead to another case of their employees being horribly harassed, putting their personal safety at risk.

And talking about controversial PR's, do you guys remember about Adam Orth? Microsoft fired that guy just for telling people to "Deal With It" on twitter when the Xbone was announced as always online. But nobody cared about him even when he was on a conference later on talking about how he was harassed off his job.

One of the problems with going all torches and pitchforks on people, is that the mob isn't very picky about who it destroys, just as long as *someone* is on the receiving end.

Self-censorship. Not censorship. Self-censorship.

And talking about controversial PR's, do you guys remember about Adam Orth? Microsoft fired that guy just for telling people to "Deal With It" on twitter when the Xbone was announced as always online. But nobody cared about him even when he was on a conference later on talking about how he was harassed off his job.

And you got me. It's been a long time since I studied the Abrahamic religions because I wanted to understand the real origins of some of these cultural phenomena, but I guess I mixed some of them up in the years since. What I could remember was merely thinking about sex, according to Jesus, is a sin.