Read the recent announcement:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8iaof8/no_gender_drama_posts_for_one_week/?st=jgzs440h&sh=4e3b92ef

You can post this next week in a catch-up thread

Fuck off

no no no! drama train stops for NO REASON!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8iaof8/no_gender_drama_posts_for_one_week/dyqdp4k/?context=1

Mother's Day is a construction of 'The Man' to oppress and condition the public into mindless consumers.

Lol gay

Keep yourself safe pls.

Who died and made you head cockwomble?

Demands that men "call out" the "harassment" specifically of women is so asinine. Men deserve the same exact amount of autonomy that women have. Meaning, men should be able to show as much apathy toward the opposite sex as women do.

Women do not give a SINGLE FUCK when men are harassed, they don't even see it as harassment. So, why should a man be obliged to do anything for them?

This but unironically. Grow a thick skin and play your fucking cancerous game without all the whining and moaning.

P.S: I'm surprised how people haven't brought up gamergate yet 🤔

Overwatch players are too young to remember it.

good times though

Anyone who cares about gamergate should be hanged.

I don't but I'm hung, is thisba mix up?

Well, you just did.

The one thing I have conclusively learned about gamergate is: anyone who brings up gamergate has no life.

Oh I'm sorry. If I mentioned what should not be named in a different sub than where the tards are fighting over a game.

Yo ed, what'd you end up having for dinner?

fish and chips with a side dish of BUSSY smashing after we watched a k-pop drama, right ed?

/u/Ed_ButteredToast pls respond. how come you didnt answer my phone this morning after reading the parent comment above?

It is there. Lots of discussion of the previous threads being full of misogynist and both gamergate and anti-sjw dog whistles

Don't jinx it 😓

So, why should a man be obliged to do anything for them

whoa, let me tell you about white knights

I have literally never even heard of a woman defending a guy who was getting berated in a game. She would be more likely to feel uncomfortable because he was taking her victimhood monopoly away.

Women do not give a SINGLE FUCK when men are harassed

This is not true from my experience. Usually women are usually first to call out any harassment in the group. Did you tried to be around women?

lol wemen

Maybe you just need better friends.

Hysterical

tru tru

My OP is better, you knob: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8iak37/overwatch_drama_still_going_on/

Overwatch solo queuing will inevitably lead you to open abuse and disagreement when your team mates have very different ideas about how to play the game.

Fuck you, it's misogyny!!!!!!

what a bunch of pussies

Reddit admins could hire a bunch of trolls to call women mean things on Overwatch and they'll have server costs covered for 5 years after a week or so.

63 gold just between those 3 posts... WTF

What if that's exactly what's happening here though

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/8i7cbx/when_we_call_talking_about_sexism_in_overwatch/dyq7nbm/

The weirdest part of saying “don’t fight fire with fire”... is that actual firemen do this all the time, because it fuckin works.

The people saying don’t fight fire with fire are those who are above it all and afraid to get burnt.

/u/coyotetale

Right. When someone talks loudly in a theater, the solution is to leap up onto your seat and punch them in the mouth, along with the people to their left and right.

Then when anyone so much as raises an eyebrow, insist that you're a firefighter setting controlled blazes to prevent forest fires.

Damn that’s how I’ve been dealing with theater disputes for years, and now I learn that’s not how it’s supposed to be done. I feel like a fool

Just curious though, how do you stop someone from talking in a theater?

Light them on fire

Go to the people in charge of a theater, just how you should deal with people misbehaving in a videogame

and I'm actually really curious about where these discussions will lead us.

Nowhere, like always.

Because it's not a realistic issue, "please stop people from being assholes on the internet games".

If we could do that we fucking would've twenty years ago.

What's with all the cowardly quotes-without-pings?

I can understand if people are afraid of the insulting pinging rule, but the posts that I'm seeing wouldn't even come close to that...

Oh yeah you can ping.

You can remove "on the internet" from that reply. People are assholes in person too.

So what.

Real life is different, there are actual things you can do about it.

You'd think so, but not really. Asshole are gonna be asshole no matter what you do to 'em.

You can kick their ass, or tell them to fuck off and threaten to kick their ass.

Of course, if you're a stringy soyboy this won't prove effective, but no one cares about losers anyway.

Right, but will that make them less of an asshole? Or will it just make you feel better?

It means people think twice before being assholes to others.

Has anyone posted the Chris Avellone drama yet? If not, I might do it tomorrow, but it's gonna require some serious effortposting to do justice to it.

Here's the best advise ever for those that feel cyberbullied and harassed by these guys who have no life aside from playing solo q: Stop playing the game. Simples. Play a game that had no chat feature.

Pathetic lolcows. I've been gaming most of my life, called every name in the book and told to KMS in a dozen different ways, never thought to call it harassment. Its just shit talking, part of every competitive game/sport.

In the case of women someone might direct some of the banter to their gender because they know they'll get buttblasted over it. Why is that suddenly a cybercrime but any way you can verbally tear a man down is not?

Not even Jesus Christ can achieve this level of white-knightery

Blizzard has this unique ability to create video games that attract the most sad and toxic communities without fail. Truly a modern marvel.

It could actually take us to the moon and planets) if we utilized it effectively.

Blizzard has monetized pathetic people escaping their lives with an addictive substance, just without having to sell them illegal things.

waah somebody called me a faggot on the internet please give me upvote

Anyone who complains about people being mean in videogames should be shot.

That thread has 30 gold. Thirty.

Think of how many lootboxes they could have bought instead