GameSpot TV (TV Series)

Sexism in Gaming (2022)

The Black Hokage: Self - Host

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• Self - Host : So, when this originally happened, and my gaming grievance was actually going to be about Red Dead Online, so the subreddit for Red Dead Online. I'm a huge Red Dead Online player, I love Red Dead Redemption II, I think it's probably my favorite game of all-time. And, right now, the Red Dead Online community are trying to get this hashtag going called #savereddeadonline, and they've got it covered by Kotaku, Polygon, um Gamerant, Forbes I think also did coverage of it, and they think this will get Rock Star's attention, and Rock Star will come back to them, and give them exactly what they want. And we can actually scroll this down. I'll tell you when to stop scrolling. Good, stop right there. But, I'm here to tell you, and you're gonna have to cut this b-roll in a second, because, it's uh, it's done. And for what I think, I do think there is a larger discussion about Red Dead Online, that we need to have, eventually about game design versus immersive experience, and comparing the Red Dead Online multiplayer experience versus the solo player one... But, I actually want to talk about something so much more important than Red Dead Online - Sexism in Gaming. In joining G4...

  Self - Host : This is not where I thought we were going, but I'm here. I'm here.

  Self - Host : Yeah.

  Self - Host : I'm listening.

  Self - Host : In joining G4, I was ecstatic to be part of something that I grew up watching as a child, but every time G4 is brought up in various channels, even in this YouTube channel; we have the chat in front of us, I can see you; without a doubt, there will be backlash, because I'm not as bangable as the previous hosts. It's somehow...

  Self - Host : Talk to 'em, Frosk!

  Self - Host : It has somehow been expected that you can talk about how much you jerked off to women as a compliment. It's not a compliment!

  Self - Host : That shit's weird. It's weird!

  Self - Host : It's de-humanizing, and it's weird. Women do not exist to be nice on the eyes for you. Morgan Webb, Olivia Munn did not exist to be nice on the eyes for you.

  Self - Host : She cookin', y'all.

  Self - Host : And that's just obvious sexism. You don't need to explicitly objectify women, or declare that you hate women to be sexist, just go ahead and check out Thorin's latest meltdown on Twitter for some spark notes. Now, here at XPlay, our reviews are written and produced by a team of people. There are too many games for one person to shoulder the burden, so we divide and conquer. And when we use language like "we", or "I", that's the reviewer, that's coming from the mouth and experience of the reviewer reading that review. And that's not to say Jirard, TBH, Adam, or myself don't contribute to the reviews, we absolutely do, but it'll always be in varying degrees, and take a whole team behind us. That's why we're XPlay, and not AdamPlay. We have done the experiment, and controlled for the variables. Adam will read a script written by the same writer that I will read the other half of the script for, but I'll be the one flamed. And, yeah, it also happens to Jirard and TBH, but that doesn't discount the sexism of how it happens to me when it does. Both things can be true, that there is a general hatred of any change that isn't Adam, and that I'll receive special flame just for being a woman. And I wish I could turn the camera around, so you could see the incredible team that make XPlay. Half of our producers and writers are women. Emily, Abby, Megan, Joe, Jake, Zipper, Gabby; it goes on and on and on. Former writers that are now on AtoS, like Vanessa. When you're in our DMs, or on those YouTube comments, or in Twitch chat right now, those reactionary threads thinking that I'm somehow ruining your current XPlay experience, because you can't objectify me; how you previously did to Morgan, or how I'm somehow less qualified to speak on something, but you can't quite put your finger on why, even though I'm reading the exact same script as Adam, but you have no problem when he's part of it. You're letting your unconscious biases ruin my day, and you're gate-keeping the gaming space. So, maybe, for 2022, we be a bit nicer, a bit more self-reflective, and we enjoy the fact that people are working hard to make free content for you. If you don't like it, don't watch it! Peace!

  Self - Host : Eh, eh, I gotta dop you up.