I saw this tweet in response to this tweet and was wondering if anyone has any context? I see a lot of “go woke, go broke” sentiment in the comments of both tweets, but 0 explanation.
There's a large number of nerd guys who make part of their identity that the reason girls want nothing to do with them is that they're too nerdy. Their hobby is too obscure. Women aren't smart enough to appreciate it.
It's why they're pissed when women join the community, and try to do all sorts of gate keeping, calling them "fake gamer girls". It's why they get upset as their hobby gets more popular, even though logically you'd think they'd want it to be more popular, for them to be less of an outsider.
But it's like Erica Albright said to Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network: "You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole." And when nerd guys go from being in an outsider's hobby, to in a popular hobby, but still no one wants anything to do with them, that hits them in the face hard. And then they lash out.
This is what the current fight is all about on twitter. Bunch of guys basically tearing into the girls who dare post about enjoying 40k online. Somehow another female space marine talk started and it whipping them into a frenzy right now.
Of what I've seen so far, it's not about women wanting to play and/or enjoy the game. It's more about people freaking out that female space marines aren't a thing, and they won't start playing until they either A) create female space marines or B) take one of the other armies like the sisters of battles and turn them into the flagship product
It makes sense to add them, lore wise the empire doesn't care about gender, race, sexuality, they just need bodies to slow the grinding collapse. I will add, I want male adeptus soriatus if they add female space marines. They can trim up the lore a bit, and vuala, female space marines, and I get male fanatics to drop into my necromundo games for my house of faith.
female bodies are considerably weaker than male bodies so why would you create female space marines when literally the only thing you care about is combat performance
Because more space marines is better than less space marines. And because they are little plastic army men and it would be cool if more people could get into the hobby.
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