I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
time to report this to valve
Until the curator gets shut down, their list is a great reference of games to buy
Not a bad idea, now I kinda want them. Update: I did find some cool games, and had a laugh at what some people get upset about.
“there’s a guy knitting in the trailer”
They did not recommend it cuz of that
WHY IS DEI BAD
Diversity Equity Inclusion. Some businesses have some people to try to make sure their hiring practices aren’t discriminatory, and that’s referred to as DEI.
But racists are against all of those things so to them DEI is a bad thing. And as these things go, DEI has become a codeword they use to express anger at anyone non-white having a job or represented in any kind of media. Like most dog whistles they pretend that they’re cleverly avoiding being overtly racist but it doesn’t fool anyone.
It’s state sponsored racism/sexism.
We should strive to give everyone the same shot, through universal free education, healthcare, etc.
Equality begins at birth, not when you’re just out of high school.
Instead we do a shit job at being a functional society and decide after the fact that none of it matters and you gotta get them quotas going.
As long as DEI, Affirmative Action, Positive Racism w/e you want to call it exists, you will always have people questioning the reason behind a minority person/woman’s employment, and their performance will always be scrutinized harder. Are they actually talented, or are they here to fill a quota? That is a valid question no matter what anyone will say.
While I see where you are coming from is it not possible that such reviews might ironically benefit the LGBTQ+ as it helps to identify content that might resonate with the individual? Admittedly “Woke Watch” has fascist connotations.
We can just have curators bring focus on those games in a positive manner then. We really don’t need to give fuck wads like these any ground to stand on, they’ll just use it as a staging ground to push from. Besides if even hypothetically we entertain the idea of us getting something positive out of this it’s not worth it. We’re not painting a mountain range, there’s no happy accidents with bigotry involved.
I get not being interested in games that have strong lgbtq+ themes or story. I’m not, but I’m also glad they exist and people can find games that represent them. I’m also not opposed to playing as an lgbtq+ character in the same way I don’t mind playing as a female character.
Being so close minded you can’t stand for sandbox games to allow you to make a pride flag, or an RPG allow you to make a non binary character is just hateful.
