KanColleWidget

[mattbk]

https://gratipay.com/kancollewidget/

@otiai10, your application be being reviewed here.

[otiai10]

Thank you! 😆

[chadwhitacre]

Interesting. A cross-cultural review! :-)

First, a tweak: I believe the homepage should be http://otiai10.github.io/kanColleWidget/, because http://otiai10.github.io/kancollewidget gives me a 404 (GitHub pages are apparently case-sensitive).

Now, applying our newly published review guidelines ...

• The Team must offer open work.
• The Team must [be willing to eventually] participate in payroll.
• The Team must not clash too strongly with our mission and brand values.

The first two criteria are met: the first because it's an open-source project on GitHub, the second because of the checkbox on the new team form (I double-checked, and @otiai10 applied after we deployed that). However, I think the KanColle brand, which KanColleWidget participates in, clashes too strongly with the Gratipay brand.

KanColle is Sexist

From my point of view, KanColle is blatantly sexist, focused as it is on "ship girls"—the ships that combat in the game are represented visually as women. An image search, and a skim of the wikia and the subreddit confirm that the women are central to the game, not incidental.

Furthermore, a viewing of a presumably representative play-through discloses that the women are gradually disrobed as gameplay progresses. The martial violence of the game manifests in the suggestion of sexual violence against the women representing each ship. Here's a couple of representative before-and-afters:

KanColle's use of hypersexualized women and sexual violence against women as central elements of its visual language constitute sexism, in my view.

Sexism Clashes with Gratipay

Sexism clashes strongly with the Gratipay brand, in particular, our values of kindness, openness to one another, and safety.

Hypersexualizing women and appropriating sexual violence as a gaming metaphor aren't kind! Gratipay wants to be kind. :-)

[otiai10]

Thank you for review, @whit537 :-)

First, a tweak: I believe the homepage should be http://otiai10.github.io/kanColleWidget/, because http://otiai10.github.io/kancollewidget gives me a 404 (GitHub pages are apparently case-sensitive).

and I apologize my mistake in URL.

I was thinking "KanColleWidget" can be accepted because it is a mere wrapper for "KanColle" and has no own sexual expressions in it.

Now, I'm very appreciating your feedback and, in conclusion, I understand the conflict with Gratipay brand you pointed and it's reasonable to reject "KanColleWidget".

A bit sad but I'll try to apply another (kind, open and safe) project someday.

(application for "KanColleWidget" can be closed)

Thank you! ありがとう！

@otiai10

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks @otiai10. Hopefully in the future there will be a project of yours that is a good fit for Gratipay! :-)

[chadwhitacre]

For the record, the bad casing on the homepage URL was our fault. Sorry! :-)

[otiai10]

Thanks for the announcement 👍