Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)A studio "didn't hire women because women don't play first-person shooters"
Ah... Maybe that is why you SHOULD hire women. 🤦♀️
Boiling Steamyou typically hire people who are more likely to know and understand the end users.
Like, you don't really focus on hiring men to design TAMPAX.
Robert Petersen 
@boilingsteam @grumpygamer absolutely absurd take.
Tim Shannon
Steven@tshannon @Sonikku @boilingsteam @grumpygamer did Boiling Steam wake up and decide to role-play a misogynistic video game executive in the early 2000s?
Annie Hsh 
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@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Ridiculous take. You would hire gynecologists, or generally anyone with expertise on the bodily function of menstruation to design products for people who menstruate, regardless of their gender.
On top of that, leaving aside the fact that quite a large number of women already play FPS games, it is to the interest of any company to increase the demographic interested in their products and appeal to a larger audience, because, spoiler alert, this is how profit is made.
uwu1ba@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Fediverse will remember that
Xerz 💗@boilingsteam @grumpygamer you say that as if there weren't trans men or enbies who menstruate, or women of any kind playing ridiculously popular stuff like Overwatch, Valorant or even CS:GO/CS2
that's not even to mention the fact that you don't need to have a vagina to know how to make things that absorb
that's not even to mention the fact that you don't need to have a vagina to know how to make things that absorb
DFYX@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Even if your assumptions were correct and women didn't play shooters (they absolutely do) or there were no men involved in designing tampons (there very likely are), your conclusion doesn't make sense. You hire a diverse group of people to broaden your audience. Hiring a woman won't make the game less attractive to men but they might have ideas that make them more attractive to women and in the end you sell more copies. Nobody says you should *only* hire women.
@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Also weird to compare a target audience formed by social norms with one formed by anatomic necessity. Last time I checked, shooters weren't controlled with a penis.
(Also, trans women are women, trans men are men and nonbinary people exist but I wouldn't expect you to even consider that)
Woedenaz@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Posts like this make me wish there was a downvote button...
This is a ridiculous statement.
Variskuu@boilingsteam @grumpygamer "you typically hire people who are more likely to know and understand the end users"
Well the mentioned company could apparently use even one of those, and the first one could as well be a woman.
Sam Thurston 
@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Earl Haas invented the tampon in 1931. Any more brilliantly wrong observations?
Serjor@boilingsteam @grumpygamer clearly you don't understand your audience, and that is why you are losing a follower.
If your sentence were right (which isn't), that only would mean that there should be women designing FPS games, so the genre would be interesting for more people (i.e. me, a 40 yro male that finds FPS like CoD and the likes super boring)
And not only that, but a toot is not enough to explain what is so wrong in your way of thinking, so, simply, good bye.
Thom Holwerda@boilingsteam @grumpygamer Tell us you've never (consensually) touched a woman without telling us you've never (consensually) touched a woman.
David Fleetwood - RG Admin"Earle Haas, D.O. (1888–1981) was an osteopathic physician and inventor of the tampon with an applicator, marketed as "Tampax". He graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1918 and spent 10 years in Colorado as a country general practitioner, then went to Denver in 1928."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Haas
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