Gators Buillied Jessica Price, so ArenaNet Fired Her

Don’t tell me how to do my job, dude 9_9

Gators have literally had it out for her since before she was hired. Jessica Price has more skill in her pinky finger than the average “member of the GW2 community” has in their entire family.

Nothing JPrice has said comes across as sexist. But the response from gators certainly does. Ask yourself why?

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… I think you meant to say REEactionary, bucko. :wink:

If not wanting to be talked down to by random twitter assholes is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

TotalBiscuit’s dead. Good.

It’s weird that Gators don’t attack me for saying that, but only attack women. :thinking:

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This topic is staying closed. I’m not inviting the redditverse into a non-frontpage topic. If BB covers this, then we’ll discuss further.

My $0.02: I completely understand JPs reaction. Pent-up anger and frustration over so many asshats treating her as less-than-human for daring to be a female game dev in the gamergate era, resulting in her response to criticism in a forum she considered “off the clock” and casual.

But as we’ve seen on BB time and time again, social media (especially discussing work) is anything but, and ArenaNet really had no choice when one of their employees got into an argument with one of their partners in such a public way that it made the Reddit frontpage.

I don’t fault them for having to do what they did for the good of the business. I fault a system that expects quiet respect from those that are repeatedly discriminated against so that one “overreaction” is enough to essentially end a career.

In the end, everyone loses except the asshats who pushed JP to become so reactive and combative on social media in the first place.

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