GamerGate
I'm in total agreement with the ladies, but yeah, they're pissing into the wind.
The more they scream and shout the more kids and basement virgins will act out to get attention.
The more they scream and shout the more kids and basement virgins will act out to get attention.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
There's two Gamergates, and they are completely separate things. One is the Gamergate that is about the putrid state of video game "journalism", and it's spot on and an important topic. Then there's the other Gamergate that is pathetic little boys being mean to girls - sometimes to the point of threats of physical violence - on the internet. Although one grew out of the other they're essentially unrelated.
The ones trying to talk about the journalism issues need to give up on the Gamergate term entirely, it's been tainted beyond repair.
The ones trying to talk about the journalism issues need to give up on the Gamergate term entirely, it's been tainted beyond repair.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
This is still stewing. It has nothing to do with the journalist aspect any more, and everything to do with whether or not it is all right to make rape/death threats over the internet at women.
The irony of it is that the people who want something done see nothing funny about saying, "You can't threaten or insult people you disagree with just because you are another one of the pathetic man-child gamers."
This is all about censorship, and these people have gamers squarely in the cross hairs.... and to them, that means straight, white males.
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The irony of it is that the people who want something done see nothing funny about saying, "You can't threaten or insult people you disagree with just because you are another one of the pathetic man-child gamers."
This is all about censorship, and these people have gamers squarely in the cross hairs.... and to them, that means straight, white males.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
We can start by stating the obvious: It is never appropriate to use slurs, metaphors, graphic negative imagery, or any other kind of language that plays on someone's gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. Not only is such language inappropriate regardless of one's passion on a given subject, but any valid arguments that existed independently of such rhetoric should have been initially presented without it. Once a poster crosses this line, they should lose all credibility.
Wow. Your psyche is fragile.
Instead of simply viewing stories of doxing, slut-shaming, and other forms of online intimidation as an unfortunate by-product of the digital age, we should boycott all sites that publish these materials.
99% of the internet is off limits, then?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
These guys say the Social Justice Warriors lost the Gamergate War.
http://tinyurl.com/of6q32e
http://tinyurl.com/of6q32e
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I'm beginning to believe that women are just too fragile to handle a college environment. Perhaps they should be kept at home until they marry, or at most sent to single-sex finishing schools.
-- Glenn Reynolds offering another modest proposal for protecting women against rape culture and trigger alerts now rampant on campuses
"Every reputable study suggests that working age women earn less than men mostly due to the choices women make in their careers. The scientists know this, the economists know this - even the White House knows this. And so I humbly present my own proposal for closing the gender wage gap, which I hope will not only solve the problem but also satisfy voices on all sides of the argument. As a society, we must begin telling women what subjects they can major in, what colleges they can attend, and what jobs they can take."
-- Ashe Schow in A Modest Proposal For Closing The Gender Wage Gap
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I saw this journalist being interviewed on a left leaning podcast. The host was not as bad as he could have been. Not very unbiased though. At the end of the interview he asked a couple of completely unrelated questions trying to cast Milo in a bad light. What was funny though, about 1/3 of the way into the interview, Milo mentioned something along the lines of "being a gay man myself" at which point you saw the host's eyes darting back and forth as his brain processed it and his approach had to be completely recalibrated lest they revoke his PC card.GORDON wrote:These guys say the Social Justice Warriors lost the Gamergate War.
http://tinyurl.com/of6q32e
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
You know how males were getting blasted on this issue, and it was always implied that adult males were to blame and we should know better?
That always bugged me. Why would the same group that turns out in droves to help charity (countless examples of that) or turn out in droves to scold a popular web comic artist (PA) over sexual identity be the same group that attacks female gamers? We WANT more female gamers. Hell, every female gamer we've ever seen in a game has a thousand "friends".
Well, as it turns out, or according to one gaming reporter, it's teenaged boys who do all the threatening and whatnot.
Guess what she did to stop it?
She told their moms.
That always bugged me. Why would the same group that turns out in droves to help charity (countless examples of that) or turn out in droves to scold a popular web comic artist (PA) over sexual identity be the same group that attacks female gamers? We WANT more female gamers. Hell, every female gamer we've ever seen in a game has a thousand "friends".
Well, as it turns out, or according to one gaming reporter, it's teenaged boys who do all the threatening and whatnot.
Guess what she did to stop it?
She told their moms.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell