Responsible Communication [The Wrench:1]
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Date: 2015-04-12

Hi!  This is the first episode of a video series on the examination, design, and refinement of constructs and language for and by the gaming community.    That's a mouthful, right?  To put it another way; I want to talk about how we (gamers) tend to talk about stuff.

Today we're talking about Political Correctness, why it's a dumb term, and making an attempt to replace it with one that's less dumb.   Hopefully we can get better about saying what we really mean to be saying so that we can argue about the things we're actually arguing about!

Anyway, I'll talk about video games themselves someday, I promise.   I don't think I've earned it yet.

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Here are some links which were used in this episode:
   Moviebob's episode on Political Correctness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQCNS4eGmuY
   Article by Katherine Cross on offense discourse: http://feministing.com/2015/02/12/i-find-this-offensive-how-offense-discourse-traps-us-into-inaction/
   Source for discussion about the origin of "political correctness": http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/uni/summary/v016/16.1.kohl.html

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Discussion on the "harm" which can be caused by certain language:

   Zennistrad's video on Pillars of Eternity and "Prejudiced Norm Theory": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEAz8EdPlo
   The article he cited in his video: http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/4925HomeComputer/Rape%20myths/Social%20Consequences.pdf

   A blogpost on FreeThoughtBlogs by "Miri, Professional Fun-Ruiner" on statistics about sexist humor: http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/2013/05/01/does-sexist-humor-matter-a-review-of-the-research/
   Articles cited in that post:
   http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018868913615
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042541
   http://www.academia.edu/266974/The_effect_of_sexist_humor_and_type_of_rape_on_mens_self-reported_rape_proclivity_and_victim_blame

Some other studies I came across while looking this up:
   http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/Chatman/papers/ASQ563975_Proofs.pdf
   http://psp.sagepub.com/content/34/2/159.abstract
   http://gpi.sagepub.com/content/17/2/178.abstract

(These last two aren't as good because we can't look at the full text, but I think the others we have are sufficient.)

The League of Legends Tribunal statistics were taken from this inforgraphic:  http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tribunal?file=Infographic_Tribunal.jpg

The infographic was gathered from: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tribunal
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Copyright stuff:
This video is published under creative commons, so you are free to use any of it's contents in whichever way you see fit as long as you attribute your source.

All images, likenesses, and art are property of their respective sites or franchises.   The following google doc contains links back to the sources for all (or most?) of the non-game assets which I used: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PZKwufBiFKrVIfvdekAcy_Xfuv3SvYyAPHdxHyvZog4/edit?usp=sharing