When will gamers understand that criticism isn't censorship?

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When will gamers understand that criticism isn't censorship?

Added: 31.01.2015 18:10 | 13 views | 0 comments

Its both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. Almost every episode of the YouTube series Tropes Vs Women in Video Games includes a variation on these clear and unambiguous words. Spoken by the cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, they provide a foreword to her discussions of the games industry and its treatment of female characters. Writer and academic Thryn Henderson. The games industry [has been] insular for so long that theres been a lot of gravitating towards the same goals and ideals, she says. The attempt to discuss or deconstruct that now is seen as censorship - because people infer from that new discussion that they arent allowed to like those things anymore.