{"id":9771,"date":"2011-02-01T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-28T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:11:55","slug":"god-of-war-director-responds-to-allegations-of-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9771-god-of-war-director-responds-to-allegations-of-sexism","title":{"rendered":"God of War director responds to allegations of sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Jaffe is an entertaining fella. Just yesterday he was comparing the PlayStation Portable 2 (aka Next Generation Portable) to a lady’s squishy bits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon my initial reading of this bit of \u2018news,\u2019 I laughed, as I\u2019m sure many other netizens did, and then resumed my daily online routine without giving it much thought. Apparently a small internet controversy broke out while nobody was watching and David Jaffe has been accused of making sexist remarks. This isn\u2019t the first time such mud has been flung, as a similar allegation arose when he once professed a desire to \u201cbone Sarah Palin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Climbing onto the soapbox that is Twitter, Jaffe<\/a> and fellow vulgarite Jim Sterling<\/a> of Destructoid and GamesRadar fame, defended Jaffe’s remarks comparing the NGP to a lady\u2019s pink canoe.<\/p>\n

\u201c@JimSterling, thanks for the defense against some of the peeps saying I was sexist. Much appreciated. I am intentionally crass and lewed at times because I think 2 many people are hypocritical uptight bizzy bodies. But sexist? Not at all. There is a BIG BIG BIG difference between using a vulgar term for a vagina and using hate speech such as using ‘gay’ as an insult, saying ‘bitches’ (which a Dtoid user pointed out to me, and I’ve since stopped), and using the ‘N’ word As for lawsuits because of being vulgar: if ANYONE at my company told me they didn’t like it and said I should stop, I would in a heartbeat. However, no one has said a thing- man or woman- and so it doesn’t occur to me. But I respect the workplace and the talents of the team way too much to lose amazing talent just so I can be lewd at times,\u201d said Jaffe.<\/p>\n

Sterling adds his opinion on the matter: \u201cI manage to upset people all the time with my own comments. I don’t get it. I was amused. Didn’t think it was sexist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Jaffe accused of sexism in wake of remarks comparing the PSP2 to a lady\u2019s birth cannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38585,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/38585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}