Minecraft creator and Twitter provocateur Notch (Markus Persson) is a billionaire since he sold his company Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
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His status as an independent billionaire gives him the ability to say whatever the hell he wants on Twitter, thus creating the kind of drama that ensued this weekend, when he sparred with some feminists online over the term “mansplaining.”
@Gaohmee No, mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 21, 2016
@MikaelSaker @Gaohmee of course I've have seen that. I don't call it "mansplaining" any more than I call a car crash "womandriving".
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
Things quickly got ugly.
https://twitter.com/MancZombie/status/734307004664143873
Stop #cuntfusing the issue by dismissing my words with a derogatory term about my gender. https://t.co/F9iKyLVY0k
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
@MancZombie Sit down and shut up.
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
Anyone who in their fight for equality shames an entire gender is a much bigger bellend than I could ever aspire to. https://t.co/PS7g9QGe0t
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
And uglier…
@idlediletante @CranBoonitz and you're a cunt.
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
@pat_makhoul I'm not the one insulting people online. I reply when people insult me.
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
What the fuck, @notch!!? pic.twitter.com/PugQrF4cVB
— Mikael Säker (@MikaelSaker) May 22, 2016
@MikaelSaker Sorry, typo. Meant to say "dick".
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
… whooooops! I'm going to go mandrink some mancoffee and wait for this to die down.
I hope the rest of you are having a great sunday! 😉— Markus Persson (@notch) May 22, 2016
UPDATE:
I've now manunderstood the c word is way more loaded in the us than I thought. I should've manused it less.
— Markus Persson (@notch) May 23, 2016
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