How are gamers oppressed?

[Bootes Void]

By who exactly and why? I hear this a lot and I don’t understand? Do you?

[Big Abraham]

Umm wow yikes sweaty. Let's unpack this. If you don't understand how marginalized people of gaming have literally been victimized by violence from heteronormative patriarchal systems of oppression for thousands of years, you clearly have a lot to educate yourself on.

[Devout Centrist]

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 sh**tty 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.

[Klobmentum Mutilated Herself]

Yeah, I support LGBTQIA rights.

Libertarians
Gamers
Big Tiddy Goth Girlfriends
Tankies
Queen, the English rock band
Internal Revenue Service
Abe Vigoda

[beesley]

In all seriousness, I don't understand at all. However those people who I know to be gamers were never the most 'popular' at school or in society generally. That doesn't explain why they might have any superiority complex, which I think is why they see themselves as oppressed even if being unpopular is not remotely comparable to genuine oppression.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

In China gamers are oppressed

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/31/tech/china-ban-video-games-minor-intl-hnk/index.html

[Mr. Reactionary]

I dont think oppressed is the right word for it. Gamers are however a subculture that is among those wrongfully demonized by fundamentalist wokies. Even going back to gamergate where somehow the gamers were the ones demonized for merely pointing out that a bunch of gamer journals traded positive reviews for sex with an awful creator. Apparently its cisheteropatriarchy to say that its unethical to sleep with game creators then leave a 5 star recommend for a schitty game. The woke march through the institutions includes our hobbies to deprive the nonwoke of safe spaces.

[dead0man]

as a gamer, I don't feel oppressed.  Maybe mocked a little more than is deserved, but that's true of a lot of groups.  And it's not like gamers don't mock everyone (gamers and non-gamers alike) all the time too.  Plus, a lot of gamers are truly horrible people as anyone who has ever played CoD online for 20 seconds can tell you.  On the other hand, those are mostly just pre-teens trying to be edgy.