2023-05-01 00:32:21
It’s a simple tweet that launched a controversy of which only Twitter has the secret. Seen 3.2 million times, this simple tweet provoked a wave of protest against journalist and host Samuel Étienne. ” Is gaming sexist? It’s terribly stupid to invite four guys to answer this question anyway, what a joke, “said the Grink account, referring to Samuel Étienne’s show on the Twitch video social network, “L’hebdo est tienne with Laink, Moman, Zack and Julien Chièze, all from the world of video games.
In the process, hundreds of Internet users fell head over heels for the host, accusing him of sexism. Many feminist accounts retweeted the original tweet or pointed to the already “sexist” pedigree of the quartet of guests and of Samuel Étienne himself. “Samuel Étienne has distinguished himself with trivialized sexism”, even insists the streamer Nat’alise Lucet on her twitter account.
Even Valérie Damidot scratched the presenter of Questions for a champion in a tweet with flowery language. “Too many coucougnettes to talk about sexism”, thus tackled the ex-host star of M 6.
The journalist, however, also benefited from hundreds of messages of support such as that of the twitcher Carole quintaine. “If it was a group of women talking about men’s problems, it wouldn’t bother anyone. On the contrary, to see guys reacting like this to this subject. And great show, ”supported the young woman. But it wasn’t the majority of the genre on the Elon Musk-owned network.
The journalist from France Télévisions had already explained at the beginning of the show. “I call the guests 15 days before and I sometimes decide on the topics of discussion the day before,” he explained by way of introduction to his program. He then responded to criticism directly on the social network Twitter, which has been read to him more than 1.4 million times. “Message – which is intended to be appeased – to all those who have grabbed me by the collar in the last 24 hours to call me sexist and / or misogynist, after my Friday show on Twitch in which I return to the news of the week with 4 guests”, he writes by way of introduction.
“The world of gaming is characterized by sexist behavior”
He then explains that it was “the chance of the programming” that made his set exclusively male this Friday, since it is a commentary program on current events, not just that of “gaming”. “I find it consistent to ask them what they think of the Ifop survey which confirms figures to support what everyone knows: yes, the world of gaming is characterized by sexist behavior on the part of importance of the players”, he adds in his explanation in 18 acts. The journalist had already been banned from Twitch a few months ago, he may have preferred to put out the fire quickly.
“Gamers and streamers have suffered from this for a long time. I know this all the better because I have already received on my Twitch channel many female streamers and gamers as well as female journalists who have been able to testify to it, in my La Rencontre Est Tienne or L’Hebdo Est Tienne meetings. still assures the multi-card journalist from France Télévisions. “Naïvely, I believe that those who quickly and sometimes violently condemned me in the Twitter tribunal would not have done so if they had taken the trouble to read the programming of my past shows”, said he still justified.
He then defends himself against any sexism in his work and in his personal ideas. “Sexism is too serious a thing for boys to not be able to grasp it, understand their possible wrongs, think about solutions. It is not by denying half of humanity the right to express themselves on the subject that we will advance” he allows himself to conclude.
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