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Cancel culture appears to be losing steam

The company involved is the BBC, they just showed an antiques program 40 minutes ago with a male and female presenting team, the woman got so excited she gave her co-worker an unsolicited kiss. No one will be reporting her or making a fuss.
My wife watches Strictly and the female presenters and gay judges are constantly ogling the male dancers and commenting on their bodies. I've seen female sports presenters say stuff like that about male athletes and they face no consequences. Goggle Box is one constant stream of gay men and straight women making sexual comments about men and apparently this is all fine. But, one man does it and it's the end of his career.
 
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Tams

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The company involved is the BBC, they just showed an antiques program 40 minutes ago with a male and female presenting team, the woman got so excited she gave her co-worker an unsolicited kiss. No one will be reporting her or making a fuss.

My wife watches Strictly and the female presenters and gay judges are constantly ogling the male dancers and commenting on their bodies. I've seen female sports presenters say stuff like that about male athletes and they face no consequences. Goggle Box is one constant stream of gay men and straight women making sexual comments about men and apparently this is all fine. But, one man does it and it's the end of his career.

The main difference is that almost all men wouldn't even contemplate complaining about the attention and comments.

It doesn't register, is a appreciated, or not appreciated but seen as being pathetic and weak to complain about, let alone demand action about it.

The phrase 'man up' couldn't be more apt these days. Sadly, I've seen even boys be taught to be all sensitive and weak in schools.
 

Roxkis_ii

Banned
This thread seems hilarious to me when there is a new culture war thread on every other game in the gaming section about how people are canceling games for pronouns or SBI involvement. You can see cancel culture in full swing on neogaf itself.

The anit woke croud has become the same SJW they were fighting just a few years ago.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
This thread seems hilarious to me when there is a new culture war thread on every other game in the gaming section about how people are canceling games for pronouns or SBI involvement. You can see cancel culture in full swing on neogaf itself.

The anit woke croud has become the same SJW they were fighting just a few years ago.
Sometimes yah gotta fight fire with fire...

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excise the rot so the body can heal!

 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
This thread seems hilarious to me when there is a new culture war thread on every other game in the gaming section about how people are canceling games for pronouns or SBI involvement. You can see cancel culture in full swing on neogaf itself.

The anit woke croud has become the same SJW they were fighting just a few years ago.
People != corporations

Not buying a product != ruining someone's life
 

FunkMiller

Member
This thread seems hilarious to me when there is a new culture war thread on every other game in the gaming section about how people are canceling games for pronouns or SBI involvement. You can see cancel culture in full swing on neogaf itself.

The anit woke croud has become the same SJW they were fighting just a few years ago.

They want people to lose their jobs, and be hounded off social media.

GAF won’t buy a game.

Your false equivalence is pretty fucked up.
 
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Roxkis_ii

Banned
They want people to lose their jobs, and be hounded off social media.

GAF won’t buy a game.

Your false equivalence is pretty fucked up.

Lmao!

You don't think the people in those culture war threads don't want those same devs to lose their job or be hounded off social media!? Be serious.
 

FunkMiller

Member
Lmao!

You don't think the people in those culture war threads don't want those same devs to lose their job or be hounded off social media!? Be serious.

No. not really. That’s never a sentiment I see voiced. It’s variations on the theme of ‘ain’t buying that woke shit’.

Now go look at Reeeeeee and other social media places, and how they verbally and openly advocate for people to lose their jobs… and actually die in some cases.

I find the ‘I won’t buy it because pronouns’ pretty ridiculous, but no one here voices the same kind of hate and outright wishing for the destruction of someone’s life the way the do elsewhere.
 
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About fucking time if it dies out. I cringe extremely hard at all the ”trans people are out to get me” people, but the ones wanting to forbid free speech go against everything our free societies are about.

From simple things like punk, heavy metal and monty python to philosophy and arts, our culture would be bereft if free thinkers of the cancel mafia were to decide.
 
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diffusionx

Gold Member
This thread seems hilarious to me when there is a new culture war thread on every other game in the gaming section about how people are canceling games for pronouns or SBI involvement. You can see cancel culture in full swing on neogaf itself.

The anit woke croud has become the same SJW they were fighting just a few years ago.
What a stupid post. Cancel culture needs the ability to cancel, which absolutely no one in the "anti woke" side has, all we can do is not buy games. Getting cancelled means losing your job, getting banned from social media, losing the ability to use banking and PayPal, getting your book taken off Amazon, etc. it is a totally different thing from just not buying something. The Avowed pronoun idiot still has a job and presumably won't be losing his job no matter what he say.s
 
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Saber

Member
What is your definition of cancel culture?

From what I remember, cancel culture is a moviment of "cancelling" people whenever they go(basically ruining its life). Emphasys on people.
This have nothing to do with be against a game for its DEI practices, this is Reera wet dream low effort argument. People being against a game for DEI or pronoums is not cancelling, its just deciding not buying because of that reason(pretty much like a person being against aways online games). Nobody there is being cancelled and neither stop people like you to support them.
 
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diffusionx

Gold Member
Lmao!

You don't think the people in those culture war threads don't want those same devs to lose their job or be hounded off social media!? Be serious.
To make the point again, the point of cancel culture is that an outrage by some segment on the internet was sufficient to get this person's life ruined. Look at patient zero Justine Sacco. Its not cancel culture if a bunch of people are just whining into the void. And once that segment of the internet realizes the power they had they used it to stifle disagreement, enact censorship regimes (Yoel Roth), and destroy peoples lives.
 
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DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
There’s a HUGE difference between someone in a high up position, who makes decisions about hiring and promoting, saying “there are too many people of this sex + race working in my industry” vs just someone voicing a controversial opinion or making offensive jokes.
 

Bert Big Balls

Gold Member
this is almost entirely because of Elon buying twitter.

if the cancel-pigs still had the power they did at twitter, no one would step out of line. That sort of canceling became completely normalized and expected. Just to give you perspective twitter actually fucking banned people for saying "learn to code" they we're completely drunk on power just a couple years ago.
The internet needs to go back to being the wild west. I say this with every ounce of seriousness in my body: normies GET OUT.
 

NickFire

Member
Lmao!

You don't think the people in those culture war threads don't want those same devs to lose their job or be hounded off social media!? Be serious.
Do you see people who are participating in actual demands for companies to fire someone getting celebrated? I don’t.
 

Hookshot

Member
Things like this will solve all that, people will be speaking the Queens Kings English in no time.

 

llien

Member
You don't think the people in those culture war threads don't want those same devs to lose their job or be hounded off social media!?
Let me pretend it is "devs" and not a bunch of full time DEI overlord reps doing that to games.
 

Drew1440

Member
Cancel culture will always exist when we have social media and companies desperate for virtue signaling. It's not going anywhere I'm afraid.
Unfortunately it's still going here in the UK.

Just this week we've had an attempt to Gregg Wallace of Masterchef and Inside the Factory fame, for making saucy working-class, middle-aged man jokes that didn’t always hit right. Apparently he made some middle class, middle-aged women feel 'uncomfortable'.
The same women were awfully quiet when it comes to Hwu Edwards, or the grooming gangs. There is mostly an alternative agenda behind these.
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
Cancel culture will always exist when we have social media and companies desperate for virtue signaling. It's not going anywhere I'm afraid.

The same women were awfully quiet when it comes to Hwu Edwards, or the grooming gangs. There is mostly an alternative agenda behind these.
This is the thing I don't get. Is it just a brit term for a rape gang, or are these guys that just focus on dating teen girls? Seems like a couple of fathers could get together and crack some heads if its young men lurking around high school girls. I know its a verboten topic since it seems to be a specific ethnicity at fault but its hard to figure it out as a yank.
 
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