Yeah if that’s the shirt, that makes a BIG difference. I’m surprised they didn’t include that part in the article, suspicious.
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this is websters definition of COPING.
you’re literally giving them a pass dude. take a hard look at yourself lmao
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gotta get that spotlight time before the curtains close.
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Yeah that’s some sneaky journalism. I’d expect better from Vice, or maybe I have too high an opinion of Vice.
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vice from the early days isnt the vice of today 
People who touch grass are the kinds of people who will make in-kind comments to people because the presumption of getting someone hooked into a conversation is to appeal to things the person clearly likes. If someone is wearing a Yellow Jersey and I’m interested in sparking up a longer conversation because I’m trying to sell something or get them to apply, I’m asking them about the Tour de France, cycling, Lance Armstrong, etc.
If someone is wearing an obnoxious joke shirt, I’m going to play along.
If someone is wearing some kind of band merch, I’m going to appeal to phrasing directly within that subculture (some of which can be pretty offputting to outsiders).
No, it is basic logic you silly zoomer-wannabe. You haven’t the foggiest idea what you’re talking about and you want to act like the experienced adult expert while talking like a prepubescent child as you judge video game developers for not being mortuary levels of austere professionalism.
VICE has been bad for some time once they started catering to particular political interests. Ages ago they were fun because they filled the gaps MSM wouldn’t fill and didn’t mind getting into the grit and muck of stories, but now its meh.
At least they gave us a link, a lot of outlets won’t even do that, meaning you’d have to go search it out separately to fact-check the article.
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Fasc, you’re giving a pass to sexual harrassment because they are “young and male adolescents!”
You’re literally defending rape culture. I’m telling you to go touch grass, cause youre literally simping for a videogame company that treats you like fecal matter.
And whats more, is youre defending them hitting on nearly underage women because of something the shirt says?
And go ahead, call me a zoomer. Born in 88 bro so it really doesnt bother me, if anything its refreshing to know that a rape defending skid like you views me as so distant that we cant be from the same generation.
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I’m well over this story.
Next please.
Did you see the shirt, bad hill to take a stand on.
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Common sense say’s that if i wear a shirt with something that someone could construe as lewd people may make a joke about it.
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Big problem with anyone supporting Blizzard’s behavior, if it is unacceptable today it was also unacceptable in the past. Look, 23 years ago I received a felony charge because a police officer drug me out of my home and punched me in the mouth and I bled on his gloves. Me bleeding on his gloves was cause for a felony charge. I was 18 years old. It ruined my life. I have been considering suing the State and PD, today I would win. 23 years ago beating people and giving them bogus felonies was the norm. No one batted an eye when an adult beat the snot out of a child. Was that ok? It’s not. Stop defending people because “that was old”. Our negative behaviors sometimes leaves permanent scars on the people we interact with.
I dont care what her shirt said, one crack in a joking way - Maybe IF she responded in kind ONLY because her shirt said what it did but a bombardment of harassment and complete dismissal is not acceptable. Don’t blame her clothing, these guys hung out in the “Crosby suite” with the great Coz.
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No, I’m giving a pass to double entendre jokes aimed at someone wearing a t-shirt that has a double entendre joke of the exact same kind. I’m doubly giving them a pass when, as a video game company, making double entendre jokes is not outside the realm of professionalism when they make video games that are also filled with double entendre jokes.
Or you can not read and just assume I’m making some boys-will-be-boys defense and I can proceed to treat you like the idiot you declared yourself to be.
You’re an idiot.
Claim: “This woman says 2+2 is 5, and Blizzard laughed and said it was 4”
Me: “Well Blizzard is fine to say that”
You: “HOW DARE YOU SIMP FOR THEM”
This is idiot thinking.
Oh boy, look at the goalposts move! Now she’s not an adult, she’s a “nearly underaged woman” as if that does anything other than infantilize her further in order for you to try to scold everyone. Holy crap you have no grip on reality whatsosever.
I called you a zoomer-wannabe you illiterate child. You’re a millennial in your mid-thirties trying to talk like my high school aged children talk, but only when they’re being idiots online. You’re literally the Steve Buscemi meme “How do you do fellow kids” and it is embarrassing.
It is acceptable today. You wear a sex joke t-shirt in public and talk to people, they have every right to make sex jokes in reference to your t-shirt. If you get mad about that, you’re an idiot.
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No, he is acknowledging his own experience in light of events that nobody here was privy to and therefore nobody can corroborate. One thing you need to do when approaching most news stories is admit one simple thing: you weren’t there.
If anything, that shirt can be considered a form of sexual harassment and any employees wearing it should have reached out to HR about wearing them. From what the article has lead us to believe, the woman was readily wearing that shirt and using it to advertise for her company. The fact that this woman was clairvoyant enough to “notice” when Blizzard is doing something sexual but not when her own company doesn’t throws a wrench into the gears of her story.
Why do you keep using this word? All it does is signal you’re being obtusely hysterical. You’re not thinking about what you’re writing. You’re being ideologically possessed.
Most folks here are just remarking on the double-standard. Since we weren’t there, there’s no way of knowing what actually went down. According to the Vice article, Blizzard offered them a chance to do an internal investigation and to talk with their lawyers and that was turned down.
Only thing left for them to do is turn to the ever-invasive hashtag Twitter moblins and go the “cancel culture” route.
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In 2 years from now if my 16 year old wears a “sex joke” shirt in public and someone talks to her the way these guys talked to this woman they better change their name, face and area code. A joke is one thing but there is a such thing as taking it too far. I’m never surprised to read such responses from certain people here. I’m sure you’re a pillar of your community.
Maybe I need to reread the article, but wasn’t the inappropriate joke literally quoting her inappropriate shirt?
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“No one talks to MY princess about inappropriate jokes while she is wearing inappropriate joke-wear…”
Nice.
And that is entirely subjective, and while jokes can and do go to far, a joke going too far isn’t an immediate obliteration of why anyone was joking in the first place. Also:
This.
My children don’t wear “Punch me!!” t-shirts and expect to never get punched so I have that going for me… which is nice.
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Doesn’t even have to be as on-the-nose as that.
Imagine a mother sending her kids off to Elementary or High School with shirts that say, “Mommy’s Little Angel” and then coming before the principal asking, “Why is little Billy being bullied so much?! I can’t understand it!”
And, if I were the principal, I’d say, “Yes, of course! What a mystery this is…”
Point being, it’s just being situationally aware, reading the room, etc.
I wish I could find the quote now, but Camille Paglia made some comment about how women purposely wearing a low-cut top shouldn’t act surprised if people’s eyes journey there. Her metaphors were far more crude, but the principle still stands. You wouldn’t walk into your workplace wearing your undies and think that telling everyone not to look is at all appropriate.
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But there’s nothing wrong with this? You can’t wear a shirt like that and not expect people to make jokes about it. People talk about how no one believes women. Well, when you think situations like these are sexual harrasment then people have the right to question your definition of the term.
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She’s got some brilliant observations to be sure, always good for some snappy retorts for a variety of situations.
There was a Quora question that made the rounds, veracity of said question never confirmed but Poe’s Law certainly applies, where a supposed mother couldn’t understand what she had done wrong. According to the post, the mother had sent her 12 year old son to school in a dress, against his will, in order for him to combat gender stereotypes. The son came home quite upset, desiring to never return to that school and being fiercely angry with his mother.
The best part is the amount of discussion it generated where people were celebrating the mother’s courage while others attacked her for being viciously stupid and cruel to her son, and everything in between.
The “I can do whatever I want cuz freedom and that means NO unwanted consequences” mentality is just pure brain-rot.
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People wake up looking for something to be angry at.
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