getting people to not convince people to buy a game doesn't harm the terf cause particularly much, when the alternative is all the people shilling the game who would otherwise be propagandizing. sure, the second worst person in the world gets even more infinite money.
let's keep things in perspective. this is a campaign, not singular skirmishes, and the fact that no one good agreed to either the game or the movie shows how much we've gained as a moment in just a handful of years. they're panicked and reacting but even with whipping up their base they still couldn't convince enough people to defect
that's why i think the wired review is good. because, well, it points out the most key fact: trans people have established themselves enough as a movement in industry (and as individual achievement) that so far, it looks like having the reputation of affiliating with a vocal transphobe means you can't hire anyone worth a damn
that wasn't the case even in 2019.
do not focus so much on the huge amounts of money -- it rarely goes to movement when it's hateful people. they like never having to worry even more than they hate us, generally and historically. its the institutions that act as force multipliers, and, well, trans people are in every discipline, as are queer people, these days.
things used to go so slow. they're faster now, but the peaks are still the same.
I do not know how to tell you the perspective from 2007 but... things have come so far even in the forces of reaction. we are so much stronger than we were back then, as a gestalt, and not easily dismissed anymore.
disabling shares because I know I'll get yelled at for talking about how powerful trans people are like this, but yelling at people is pretty low value in terms of where all that energy could be going, even just for outreach or counter lobbying. there's only strength in numbers, and only if you can act together to do things like withhold high quality labor collectively, or get thirty of you to attend municipal council meetings etc. but online on social media you don't control, we're easily blockable randos just yelling at people, so collectively focused on the cheese that we miss the snap trap.
