They really need to hire more of these people because I'm sure that having super tight controls on what is said and put into the game will be great for a creative company. Also, I'm sure this will be great for hiring and retaining creative people since they love hardcore highly complicated rules of censorship.
There has to be a certain amount of civility enforced but that can be done by a few human resources people and the legal department, not a person subscribing to an ever expanding universe of rules that has gone beyond good manners to mental illness levels of censorship control.
That sounds like an extremely important and influential position, I'm happy for her!
(I hope that she identifies as "her", truly I do; if I made a mistake, I didn't intend to misgender anyone, please don't cancel me.)
Everyone knows but you get banned for taking about it.
Suffice to say that this site is not politically neutral.
I think what’s a bit odd to people is why such a large part of the interviews and such are now with lgbt+ people. If representation was core they would be like what… 2% of the company? Even less?
Top Blizzard management knew about all of this and did nothing other than punish and silence those who had the courage to raise the issue. That's a bad corporate culture. People were fired for it. Top people at that.
For all the complaints about Blizzard's corporate culture, what did you expect them to do to ward off more lawsuits and try to placate California in theirs? The obvious answer is to visibly show "Hey, we're attempting to fix the stuff that allowed this to happen" and create positions to do just that.
Was Jessica hired because she was a woman? Perhaps. Is she qualified? Clearly, yes. Was she maybe the best person that ticked off all the boxes they need to tick off? Probably.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
First of all, more than 2% of the population is LGBT+. It's more like 7%.
Second of all, those numbers are higher in California.
Third of all, those numbers are higher with young people.
Fourth of all, those numbers are higher with people interested in video games.
So you are looking at a subset of a subset of a subset of a subset and asking why it doesn't reflect the general population. It's like asking why Muslims are not well represented in the community of Caucasian hog farmers in Alabama.
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
You realize all of those things can be true? You can be perfectly qualified for a position, but hired for a different reason. Or vice versa.
She was clearly hired mainly because she's a woman - and Blizzard needs the PR spin badly at this point.
She could also be supremely qualified for the job as well.
This isn't a complex concept. Happens every day.
It's not particularly interesting in the least, actually. In fact, the absolutely predictable elements of the story make it mundane, if anything.
Blizzard has hired plenty of people in that role and other similar departments, but they never made any big announcement over them because they never needed to spin PR or to prove anything. In fact, imagine if the person they hired for this position was an equally qualified 45-year old white man. Do you think they'd made a huge post bragging about it? No. And even if they did, can you imagine the backlash they would - rightfully - get across the internet? They know what they're doing. Look at the very opening lines of the statement:
"Blizzard Entertainment is excited to announce Jessica Martinez as our first Vice President, Head of Culture. This comes as part of our ongoing initiative to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture where people at every level can learn, grow, and bring their most creative selves to their work."
Do you think they would write that if a man was hired? Of course not. They revealed their motives right at the start. Which, if I was in charge of hiring for Blizzard, I'd do the exact same thing.
She got hired primarily because she's a woman. (Which doesn't mean she wasn't also qualified.)
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Do you have any proof to this?
Mostly thats its 7%, that they are inflated in cali and that the numbers for some reason would be higher for people interested in videogames.
Interested in videogames is also a bit of a stretch when it comes to getting a developement job.
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Very few of the people you see in these videos are developers. They are usually artists and designers. Those are different fields that attract very different demographics.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/332522/...cans-lgbt.aspx
Do you need me to justify the idea that California has a higher rate of self-identified LGBT people than say.... Alabama? I think it is fairly obvious. If the rate is 7% nationwide, it stands to reason that places which are known for having things like gay neighborhoods and progressive rights for LGBT people will have higher rates of self-identification in that regard.
Similarly, do I really need to justify that people who are interested in video games and nerd culture will in general have higher rates of self identification as LGBT than, for example, elderly people?
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
While developers usually refers to programmers when i said game developers i meant the people working on developing the game overall. That means not HR people, support staff and such but programmers, artists and so on.
Even if we are generous and say 10% of developers are LGBT that still way, way less then what we are presented at in dev interviews, and those are only counting the people who are visibly lgtb(as the article you linked says, most lgbt simply identify as bisexual).
Also you are double dipping when you say gamers are more likely to be lgbt because they are younger since you already used the being younger as an argument.
If you frequent any social media these days you will also see many girls identifying as bisexual without actually being it. Just saying. Might be a good indicator why lgbt numbers are rising specifically within the bisexual statistic.
Last edited by ClassicPeon; 2022-05-17 at 09:11 AM.
Its easy to pull things out of context, act offended and then brush everything else off as if it didnt exist. The women i am talking about identify themselves as bisexual while self admitting that they would never have sex with a women. Its not something i am guessing too its themselves saying it. Tiktok is a strange place.
Being offended does not mean you are right.