As per one of the most top-voted posts in that thread [1], the same author released two mods: one that restores the shots of Miranda's behind to the 2010 release, and one removed them from the original release. I'm not sure how adding more context makes it any more misogynistic. This community is enabling people to enjoy the game however they want, both with more sexualization and even less sexualization. If your issue is specifically with "how their complaints are voiced in public, usually in an aggressive and derogatory manner" you would be much better served highlighting this particular kind of behavior rather than the community as a whole.
I think your last sentence is really demonstrative of what I'm saying: people harbor a highly prejudiced view of gaming as, "a community that already has a reputation for sexism and misogyny" and are making judgements based on this prejudice. I have no doubt that you earnestly believe this butt-mod is sexist, but the fact that you harbor this belief is precisely what leads me to feel that this group's complaints are valid.
The person who wrote the mod does not appear to be the one who linked it on KotakuInAction. Therefore that community can't take credit for the other mods and claim they balance each other out.
>I think your last sentence is really demonstrative of what I'm saying: people harbor a highly prejudiced view of gaming as, "a community that already has a reputation for sexism and misogyny" and are making very skewed judgements.
To be clear, I am not saying this about the general gaming community. I am saying this about the gamergate community. Surely not everyone in that community is sexists or misogynist, but I don't think you can legitimately argue that there is not some sizable portion of that community that is highly sexists and misogynist.
That context and context in general is important because it helps to establish the motivation behind their actions. It is just like how saying the exact same thing to your wife and a random women on the street could be loving in the former context and sexist in the latter.
> The person who wrote the mod does not appear to be the one who linked it on KotakuInAction. Therefore that community can't take credit for the other mods and claim they balance each other out.
Then by the same logic, the sexualized mod doesn't count either. They were authored by the same person. Otherwise, this is yet another double standard: the sexualized mod counts despite not being linked by the author, yet the de-sexualized mod doesn't count because it want linked by the author.
I don't think it's productive to drag this out any longer, but as an outsider to this situation you come off as highly prejudiced and it makes me sympathize more with the people you're calling sexist and misogynist over a mod.
>Then by the same logic, the sexualized mod doesn't count either. They were authored by the same person. Otherwise, this is yet another double standard: the sexualized mod counts despite not being linked by the author, yet the de-sexualized mod doesn't count because it want linked by the author.
The author doesn't matter. I am not criticizing the author as I don't know the author's intent.
I am criticizing the specific reaction of the KotakuInAction community to the work of the author the same way I might criticize how some people celebrate American History X for reasons that are not aligned with the filmmaker's intent.
I think your last sentence is really demonstrative of what I'm saying: people harbor a highly prejudiced view of gaming as, "a community that already has a reputation for sexism and misogyny" and are making judgements based on this prejudice. I have no doubt that you earnestly believe this butt-mod is sexist, but the fact that you harbor this belief is precisely what leads me to feel that this group's complaints are valid.
1. https://imgur.com/a/NKZSoEw