Why should you care? Because this 'logic' is rampant, and these people are gaining power.
I am FIRMLY team
I'll save you the time of suffering through this infuriating article written by some fascist, Orwellian, femininazi loon and just offer the story highlights, the real money quotes, and my thoughts.
"In 2010, Penny Arcade posted a comic strip that involved a character describing being 'raped to sleep by dickwolves.' The rape joke wasn’t the point of the strip - it was an illustration of the screwed-up ethics implied by the quests in videogames like World of Warcraft, where after a player has rescued, say, five hostages or slaves, there’s no real impetus (and sometimes no mechanic) to save any of the others."
Supposed rape victims and other oversensitive causeheads and their useful idiot supporters complained.
"Whether or not the strip was offensive isn’t really relevant at this point: More than the comic itself, what made the most impact was how Penny Arcade responded to the readers - including rape survivors - who said it upset them. First, they mocked their critics with a series of posts and a flippant non-apology. "
They should have said, 'Stop raping me with your stupidity. Seriously? A multi dicked wolf in Hell triggered you? Seek help.'
"Penny Arcade even monetized the discomfort over the rape joke by making and selling 'Team Dickwolves' shirts and pennants."
Translation to rational adult, they monetized the outrage of idiots. GOOD FOR THEM.
Eventually Penny Arcade and others involved pulled the merchandise and it all cooled down.
" on Monday at PAX, in front of an audience of thousands, Krahulik told business manager Robert Khoo that he regretted pulling the Dickwolves merchandise"
HOW DARE HE?!? You see, this is defiance. That MUST not be allowed.
One idiot offered the feedback, "'It’s like he never got the point of growing up having been bullied as a kid.'" <- These feminazis are incapable of understanding they are the bullies. They are thugs demanding a company not print a product they don't like, and that attendees not wear it. Because of their feelings. And here I thought dictating what people wear and saying 'they had it coming' was verboten.
Douchebag continues, "'I really want to let them know that not everyone in webcomics is scared to stand up to them.'" Because, apparently, having to pull money making merchandise due to the bullying of a legion of these psychos didn't clue them in? Translating douchebag to rational adult, "They regret their previous obedience and capitulation. THIS CANNOT STAND!"
"Christine Love wrote that, despite not feeling safe or comfortable at PAX, she was afraid to pull out of the show because it was a rare opportunity to showcase her independent work."
SHIRTS about a CARTOON JOKE made her feel unsafe. She has the choice not to attend, but chooses to stay for profit, and that makes the con evil and oppressive. Got that?
"'I don’t feel comfortable attending PAX,' Love wrote. 'If I felt like I had a choice in the matter'"
This is insanity.
"Still, Sampat told WIRED, 'A lot of positive stuff' has come out of her post: colleagues expressing solidarity, assault survivors thanking her for speaking up. For some readers, her post was a wake-up call, a series of incidents easy to ignore on their own thrown into sudden and stark context; for others, it launched an extended conversation about how to make PAX less critical to the success of independent games."
Translation to rational adult: Causeheads are gathering in numbers to be able to bully PAX. That will be cosnidered okay, because feelings.
Another douchebag: "'The unexamined privilege in [Mike's] viewpoint is sort of breathtaking - the fact that a straight white male'"
How does one reason with this? Answer: You can't. The target is automatically guilty and must shut up because non-gay non-minority non-female. This is a lynch mob. It is a roving lynch mob of psychotics who ARE what they claim to hate.
"Mike Krahulik is not a brave upstart defending freedom of speech, even if that’s a defense Penny Arcade has hidden behind time and again. Freedom of speech is not and never has been in danger here"
Yet this entire piece and all of those in this movement have the goal of silencing their opposition. There is no law, just a lynch mob of bullies.
"And that means that if the gaming community’s going to keep moving forward, the time has come to leave PAX behind."
If they don't comply to our feelings, destroy the business. "For fairness."
This kind of thing will only get worse while it is tolerated and enabled. Don't be complicit.
Why I’m Never Going Back to Penny Arcade Expo Witness, arguments from intellectual or emotional children, all too common in our society, and it's getting worse. Bask in the catch phrases.
**[A SHIRT]** "made many potential attendees feel uncomfortable and unsafe."
"a situation where **inclusion** mattered more than proving that they had the power to do whatever they wanted."
"merchandise he had created as **a 'screw you' to rape survivors** who had had the temerity to complain about a comic strip."
"I could get over the original comic if they’d just moved on or apologized, but they had to **make merchandise out of rape** just to poke back at people"
"despite **not feeling safe** or comfortable at PAX,"
"“The **unexamined privilege** in [Mike's] viewpoint is sort of breathtaking - the fact that **a straight white male**"
"Krahulik has every legal right to be **shitty to rape survivors** and **trans*people"**
" It’s about understanding **power differentials** and the difference between criticism and **bullying"**
**"It’s about caring** more about not harming other people than about whether their subsequent upset inconveniences you."
This garbage will come to a con or the real world near you if it hasn't already. It'll be called Hollaback, or it'll be their allies the gaystapo, or some other name for the same leftist control freak trash seeking to bully and silence while calling others bullies.
I'd never heard of most of this before tonight. I only knew the Penny Arcade name. Now I'm a fan.
GO TEAM DICKWOLVES!