They are religious nutjobs, they don’t care about causation.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic. Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.
If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.
Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I thought they were a feminist group
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I believe they’re a religious group under the guise of feminism and child protection. If you look at their affiliate page, they list quite a few religious groups.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Feminism isn’t a religion?
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In what way is Feminism a religion? Do feminists pray to Lilith? Is there a Woman Church? Is International Women’s Day the Christmas of this religion?
Think before you say silly things.
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
TERFs are as feminist as Nazis are socialist and North Korea is democratic. It’s in the acronym; that’s it.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sadly from my experiences with feminist groups, TERFs have historically been the norm not the exception.
You should really look into what the Daughters of Bilitis were up to, and books like the The Transsexual Empire. A book I cannot say the full name of for it contains a slur.
Historically feminist groups have attacked transgender women and gay men for “Infringing upon what it means to be a woman.”
aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have examples today of the real harm of this, like in Afghanistan. It’s interesting that western societies are overall less religious as ever, yet religion keeps getting shoved down our throats… and winning.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If I’m not mistaken it’s not a religious group doing it because Jesus, it’s a feminist group doing it because they blame porn for the existence of transpeople
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Porn and prostitution do have historical correlation with the existence of trans people. Namely that when we’re kept from all other means of making money these industries help us continue to afford food and shelter.
That’s one of the things that pisses me off most about all this. By calling us pornographic they’re calling for us to be forced back into an exploitative relationship with the porn and sex industries.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Furthermore…
Their decision to target the payment processors - not the developers, or itch.io, or steam, is some of the most cowardly and authoritarian things I’ve ever seen in the gaming space.
It’s economic coercion; a playbook used by religious bigots and authoritarians for decades. Financial censorship by proxy.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Even Furthermore…
Wanna censor it? Good fucking idea /s
Shoving that shit into the shadows doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it untraceable, unmoderated, and unaccountable.
If you care even remotely about preventing harm, you don’t force taboo communities off the grid. You keep them where they can be seen, tracked, and contained… preferably behind legal firewalls, age gates, and content filters.
If you push them into the dark web, and congratulations: you’ve just built a Petri dish for escalation, radicalization, and actual predation.