Post #4237744

@danirabbit@mastodon.online I have such bile for the idea of "apoliticism" and the things it carries water for out of cowardice. I used to care about the games industry and follow it, and that was a place where the pattern really was laid bare in what gamer culture complained about. A protagonist can be a man, or political. A protagonist can be white, or political. A protagonist can be straight, or political. A protagonist can be cis, or political. A protagonist can fine with mass-murdering brown people in the name of American interests... or political. And many of these still apply for non-protagonists. In fact, female characters usually aren't, but are held to their own standards of attractiveness, because anything that doesn't pander to cishet whiteboy gooning is _political._ It's always been a farce that the participants were too stupid to mask - and that brazenness has traditionally been the only thin, perforated line between Gamer Culture and how power works everywhere else.