Do many gaming companies struggle with sexism?
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html Personally I can see how certain games with toxic communities might also affect the work culture at specific companies. I personally think EA is fine, but wondering if other companies have this issue given all the stuff going on at riot recently.
From my brief stay at thq before they went bankrupt, I'd say they had issues.
Apparently they do
Riot is an SJW company so “sexism” is subjective. I’ve met many people from Riot. They hire tons of far left Twitter activist type people at that company who would take a guy saying “you look nice today” to a woman as a sexist comment and get angry they can’t sue their company over it.
Can't say you're wrong, but there is definitely a large portion that don't fit that mold and just want to make cool shit. They are just quieter
MS isn’t much different these days. Currently there’s a huge “scandal” over an email thread from a women@MS DL highlighting stories about harassment at the company and demanding action. But if you’re a guy, you’re going to have a hard time finding this thread and just get told “that type of behavior won’t be tolerated here” with no reference to what is being alleged.
It has for a long time. What do you think happens when a bunch of gaming nerds that haven’t had much social education start getting in close contact with women? And not only that, have power over them?
Stay away from gaming companies if you can .. it’s just too volatile
I think most men might make off-color jokes because they’re a product of internet culture, but really, most of us are just socially awkward and socially stupid. That includes the women to some extent, but when “normal” people are hired into roles it can be a bit of a culture shock for both sides. Think this is really the problem with tech in general, I don’t find many people who are racist, sexist, etc. nobody actually, just people who need social adjustment and the solution is probably to meet in the middle between the culture clash But yeah, i doubt the scope of the whole -ism “problem”, its way blown out of proportion everywhere. Of course, I don’t think arbitration for legitimate sexual harassment claims is a good look either.
If you only knew
Not here. Just sayin.
Coming from the normal business world prior to Riot, it's about the same imo. People just didn't speak up in "normal" jobs for fear of becoming unhireable.
Yes. A majority of them.