This long-time Microsoft exec has recently been appointed head of their Xbox division. As soon as the announcement came out, the forum posts and blogs started up, with cracks about "baking and knitting apps" and "she has no gaming experience" ('cuz she's a chick, and chicks don't game) and discussion of her MILFy hotness or lack thereof. I posted a link to an article in ''The Atlantic" about it, but another editor feels the author was cherry-picking to grind an ideological ax. Comments?
To me, it's a bit undue weight. She's got a short bio but the supposed "gamer reaction" takes up half of one of three paragraphs - and from only one source. I don't doubt that the misogynistic reaction is happening, it's just not clear to me that this has already become so relevant to her biography.
I went to see the discussion on the talk-page for this article, and to my surprise, there was none! I started one, just in case people want to use the talk page to discuss the question on-wiki.
Looks like this issue has resurfaced and a couple of editors keep insisting on removing it.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Michael J. Lowrey orangemike@gmail.comwrote:
This long-time Microsoft exec has recently been appointed head of their Xbox division. As soon as the announcement came out, the forum posts and blogs started up, with cracks about "baking and knitting apps" and "she has no gaming experience" ('cuz she's a chick, and chicks don't game) and discussion of her MILFy hotness or lack thereof. I posted a link to an article in ''The Atlantic" about it, but another editor feels the author was cherry-picking to grind an ideological ax. Comments?
Well, actually, it's quite unimportant. She wasn't appointed "head of xbox", she was appointed head of the Devices and Studios Engineering Group - of which xbox is only one small part.
I have corrected the subheading so that the undue weight focus on xbox is removed.
Risker/Anne
On 28 July 2013 13:21, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like this issue has resurfaced and a couple of editors keep insisting on removing it.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Michael J. Lowrey orangemike@gmail.comwrote:
This long-time Microsoft exec has recently been appointed head of their Xbox division. As soon as the announcement came out, the forum posts and blogs started up, with cracks about "baking and knitting apps" and "she has no gaming experience" ('cuz she's a chick, and chicks don't game) and discussion of her MILFy hotness or lack thereof. I posted a link to an article in ''The Atlantic" about it, but another editor feels the author was cherry-picking to grind an ideological ax. Comments?
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