Addressing criticisms of her piece about PR sexism at E3, writer Katie Williams has posted a sharp, well-reasoned follow-up on her blog. Go read it! [Alive Tiny World]
‘So What If I’m A Woman, Let Me Play The Game’
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44 responses to “‘So What If I’m A Woman, Let Me Play The Game’”
Not this again. Seriously.
“I’ve had some shit experiences by a group of people that amount to 50% of the population, there’s something wrong with .”
We all know there are absolute arseholes out there. Does everyone need to write a blog post every time something unpleasant happens?
It’s absolutely boring. People are shit – we get it.
I’d be pissed if the game was taken away from me too.
The only thing I object to is this comment
“Maybe every one of the hundreds of people you met at E3 was unquestionably polite, and maybe not a single male attendee attempted to hit on you or check out your ass while you weren’t looking.
You might be incredibly lucky: none of it may have happened to you.”
Guys will look at females, (if they are straight), to see if they are attracted to them. It’s human nature, we want to be loved and procreate. For most guys that means looking at a girl to see if they find her physically attractive and then trying to talk to her in some way where a conversation may start and they can see where it goes. Just saying, I thought this line watered down the whole thing a bit. Lets face it, getting hit on, rejected, looked at and sometimes hooking up are all part of, (almost everyones), life that won’t go away until humans are extinct!
Why not say to the bloke “hey I can handle the game myself”, why not stand up for yourself at the time instead of writing an article a week or two after? Katie had a job, it was to review games for PC Powerplay and she couldn’t even do her job properly simply because she couldn’t say a few words. Sure you can say “she shouldn’t have been treated like that” or “she shouldn’t even have to say it”, but there are misunderstandings all the time when you’re dealing with others. We aren’t mind readers or telepaths.
I know people will disagree with me but it just seems like she’s being a f***ing princess 24/7 and has a hissyfit just about every single time she’s wronged by a male. Who cares if people think you’re a “bitch” just for standing up for yourself. Is that more important than the job you’re supposed to do?
How can you seriously hope to stand up for feminism and women if you can’t stand up for yourself?
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Should have stopped at “telepath”. The rest is garbage and generally unintelligent ragedribbling.
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Yeah you’re right. I guess I’m just tired of her complaining. Everything she writes about just seems like a killjoy to me and I couldn’t help it.
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Wow were you really treated that badly in Uni? From ALL the guys??
I’m sorry that happened…and there’s really no excuse for talk like that.
I don’t know you personally and from your writing I do think you’re a straight up nice person, but just to share an experience. In my uni days I’ve had a fair few people who were unbearable…one girl in particular would hold up the class for an extra half hour trying to debate with the lecturer. We never abused her of course, verbally, or otherwise, but I sure wanted to say something.
Of course that’s just one example, working with her in a group is a bigger nightmare. She thinks of herself as the champion of women everywhere and that all women should follow her example.
Garbage. But in the end, she was disliked not because of her gender, but because of her personality. Again not implying anything about the author, but just thought I’d share.
Also….did you ever think that maybe the PR guy was just trying to hit on you? And the best way to talk to you was to do a game demonstration? 😛
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