I'm angry about the Sarkeesian/McIntosh Anti-Violence rants At the e3 2012, when Last of Us was announced there were several people, that began talking about the amount of violence at the e3, even of Gamasutra the Kris Graft asked his colleagues what the loud cheering and applause from Journalists at every headshot during the Sony press conference says about video games in general.(https://archive.is/uXvDT) It seemed, like a discussion about violence in video games was about to start, a discussion not fueled by calls for game bans and censorship, but a civil discussion about which way the industry is heading. Then two mass shootings happened, first the Aurora shooting in July 2012 and then the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012. and suddenly the discussion was over. The same Kris Graft, who complained about to much violence in June 2012 said in January 2013: https://archive.is/JyLNB#selection-1655.0-1652.1 From this on not only Gamasutra, but large parts of the gaming media circled the wagons again, suddenly every criticism on violence was dismissed as a call for censorship. Instead of violence now sexism became the hot topic, it's astonishing to see the rise of sexism articles during 2013/2014 leading up to GamerGate. And now, that the people the industry who catered Sarkeesian and McIntosh see that the 2 start to complain about the violence in Video Games besides their usual rants about sexism in Video Games, people start to complain. And I can understand their compains, because the femfreq/radicalbytes style of discussion about violence is the same as the discussion about sexism, it's an authoritarian discussion that in the end aims at banning/forbidding/shaming away games. I am angry about it, because in 2012, we could have had a much calmer and more fruitful discussion about violence. I am mostly done with hyper violent games like MK, Hatred, etc. and I found the "no russian" mission completely unacceptable and would have loved to see Journalists not dismiss every criticism with the words "It's a game - grow up". I am not for banning or censoring games with violent content, I just don't want to play them, but on the other side, I want to be free to express my distaste just like I can do it for everything else. I don't stand on the side of Sarkeesian/McIntosh in this, but I also don't stand on the side of all the sheeps, that followed the two since 2012 with glowing admiration and who now suddenly seem to realise for the first time, what they are saying. The whole situation is fucked up if you ask me.