Did Professional Sarkeesian-hater Davis Aurini Commit Felony Wire Fraud? Hell if I know, but he’s definitely an unethical dick.
Davis Aurini, doing his best impersonation of a cartoon villain.
On Friday, expat woman-hating woman-chaser Roosh Valizadeh put up a post on his Return of Kings blog with the sensationalized headline “Did Anita Sarkeesian Commit Felony Wire Fraud?”
Roosh breathlessly “reported” that
Two independent journalists have confirmed with the San Francisco Police Department that Anita Sarkeesian, a video game social justice warrior, may have used false pretenses to raise money for her non-profit entity. The police have said that she has not contacted them as she claimed after receiving a Twitter death threat in August. Under Federal law, this may put her on the hook for felony wire fraud.
The two “independent journalists” in question are tech journalist and self-described “fan of 4chan” Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart, and Davis Aurini, the cigarette-smoking, scotch-drinking, Anton LaVey-looking blogger who’s trying to raise money to make a “documentary” about the evils of Anita Sarkeesian and “social justice warriors.”
Both journalists – well, the one dude who writes for a sleazeball right-wing site and the other dude who’s not actually a journalist at all – did indeed contact the San Francisco Police Department and were told by a media spokesman that he couldn’t find a record of Sarkeesian contacting them about the threats she received in August.
This bit of “news” sent #GamerGaters and other Sarkeesian-haters around the internet into a bit of a frenzy.
But it turns out they got worked up over nothing. The police spokesman just hadn’t looked hard enough. A day after Tweeting a number of accusatory questions to Sarkeesian, Yiannopoulos had to backtrack, noting in a series of Tweets that he’d had another conversation with the SFPD, who told him that Sarkeesian had in fact reported the harassment to the FBI.
Another writer posted emails he’d gotten from the police spokesman that seemed to confirm Yiannopoulos’ updated information. In the emails, SFPD Public Information Officer Albie Esparza said that Sarkeesian had indeed contacted the SFPD in August but that the case had been handed off to the FBI. (I’ve confirmed this with Esparza .)
Given that the main “proof” that Sarkeesian was lying about the threats she said she received had just vanished into thin air, you might expect that Roosh and Aurini might, you know, correct their now-clearly incorrect posts on the subject and retract their accusations. Well, not so much.
Roosh’s post remains up, with only a brief “update” at the end, noting that “the police have changed their story and now state that they were contacted.” Aurini’s post remains unchanged, and as I write this he’s posted nothing more on the subject.
Even considering the people we’re dealing with here, the hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Roosh ends his post by declaring that
these new revelations concerning Sarkeesian show that no form of media is safe from the SJW and feminist agenda, and that we must do all the fact checking ourselves. The entire media establishment in the United States is potentially corrupt. Proceed accordingly.
Yet he refuses to frankly acknowledge that the “new revelations concerning Sarkeesian” were based on faulty information, offering instead a weasel-worded “update.”
Aurini, for his part, claims in his post to be “fight[ing] for openness and integrity within Tech and Video Game circles.” But he hasn’t bothered to update his post.
When ethical journalists discover that they were wrong about something, they acknowledge their errors and post straightforward corrections. When they get something spectacularly wrong, they apologize.
Somehow I don’t think we’ll be getting apologies from either of these guys.
And thus we get to the whole wire fraud thing. In his post, Roosh repeated a claim made by Mike Cernovich of the “game” blog Danger and Play, who tweeted:
As it turns out, there’s zero proof that Sarkeesian lied about anything here. And she made no direct connection between the threats and her Tweet asking for donations.
Indeed, by Cernovich’s logic it’s Davis Aurini, not Anita Sarkeesian, who’s guilty of felony wire fraud. Why?
Because in his post, he made a direct connection between his accusations against Sarkeesian and his own fundraising efforts. Here’s how he ended his piece:
Personally, I’d like to see a lot MORE documentation on Sarkeesian, because this isn’t the only claim she’s made which I suspect is fraudulent – and not just her, but all of the individuals hiding behind the shield of Social Justice, and the journalists who have been aiding and abetting them, culminating in outrage known as #GamerGate. That’s why Jordan Owen and myself have started a Patreon page, so that we can create a feature-length documentary about these people and their methods, and how they bully and victimize the very people they claim to support.
So please help us get this documentary made, so that we can fight for openness and integrity within Tech and Video Game circles, and expose the professional victims for the con artists that they are. Please support our documentary, The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors.
Given that Aurini now knows that his post was based on faulty information, and given that he hasn’t corrected his post or retracted his insinuations, could he now be guilty of felony wire fraud?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think so. While admittedly I’m no lawyer, Cernovich’s logic seems to me like a bit of a stretch.
I do feel safe in saying, however, that neither Roosh V. nor Davis Aurini should be lecturing anyone about ethics.
UPDATE: I confirmed with the SFPD that Sarkeesian had indeed called the SFPD and that the case was handed off to the FBI; the post has been updated to reflect that.
Posted on September 15, 2014, in #gamergate, $MONEY$, antifeminism, entitled babies, evil SJWs, expats, false accusations, harassment, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, no games for girls, no girls allowed, nonpology, PUA, reactionary bullshit, red pill, rhymes with roosh, sarkeesian!. Bookmark the permalink. 566 Comments.
“Who died and gave you the authority to hand out Real Gamer cards? Nobody gives a shit what you think – and Anita only became this giant bogeyman thanks to your own ilk’s attempts to bully and silence her. Good fucking jorb.”
Whatever you say mate.
My personal evaluation of a real gamer is merely what I think, not some sort of objective truth on the concept. I however do not consider her to be one and therefore dismiss her opinions on the subject.
This doesn’t mean you have to. It’s just what I think on the matter.
“Everything is an opinion.” Jeez, postmodernist bollocks much? Get out of your ivory tower.
I’m so fucking shocked at this, I might have to go lie down.
You weren’t really fooling anyone before your big announcement, bro.
Well, I think armenia4ever is actually a talking aardvark. My personal evaluation of a real aardvark is merely what I think, not some sort of objective truth on the concept. I do however consider him to be one and therefore dismiss his opinions on the subject of gaming.
Doesn’t mean you have to. It’s just what I think on the matter.
Aardvarks also don’t get to express an opinion on feminism.
Anyway, I put in my 2 cents. Cheers people. :) I’ll go back to lurking.
Feel free to dissect, critique, point out the lack of logic, how stupid I am, terrible, should be banned from the gene pool, small dick, misogynist, ect.
I also do enjoy ad hominem attacks, but make them unique and interesting.
@hellkell: Do we need to fetch the fainting couch? Clutch your pearls, it may help.
/snark.
I have other things to do with my time than conduct a free logic class for trolls.
…and he sticks the flounce!
Judges?
Don’t flatter yourself. Your opinions are worth far less than that.
You’re right. Everything is personal. That’s because feminism is about people. You have been commenting to some of those people right now.
What is hard about that?
Have fun lurking.
I would be nice if one of them understood what ad hominem actually means in terms of an argument.
And somehow I think the gene pool is safe. Just a guess. Purely a beta, this one. Not likely to score any high-value female, and too afraid of any other woman to allow his precious man-juice to be stolen.
It would be nice if they understood what logic means at all. You know, that “words, put together in some kind of sequence, by a man” is not the definition.
This means she’s not a gamer (HTH):
Wait. What logic? I know I missed a lot, but logic?
Do trolls even know what the word really means? And how incorrect conclusions are sometimes completely logical but based on flawed premises? Or how perfectly correct conclusions can be drawn without logic?
Logic is a system! Not a perfect thing that must be worshiped!
I think Paul Elam and Thunderf00t have teamed up to pioneer new forms of logic. One (so I’ve heard) is called ‘The-Convoluted-Pretzel-Logic-Crazy-Making Razor’. It puts Occam’s Razor to shame. If your opponent isn’t actively stabbing hirself in the eye by the time you’re done, you get your money back.
Women aren’t people anymore because Anita Sarkeesian isn’t a real gamer? Makes sense.
So what this one was doing was attempting to help people fill in all the squares on their bingo cards, right? He’s servicey!
You know, the more I think on this, the more I keep thinking about how it should have been ‘seems fishy’ or ‘smells fishy’. Sounds fishy? Glub glub? Or is it actually a silent mouthing… I need Argenti’s expertise on this.
And yes, this really is the thing I found most interesting in the aardvark’s commentary.
My first reaction was “Why is the media spokesperson for the SFPD telling random creeps about whether a person has laid charges anyway?” My instinct would be to say “Who are you and why do you want to know, oh and I’ll need ID before I tell you anything Mr Alleged Reporter, oh and there’s no public interest involved here, FUCK OFF you sleazy creep.”
Interpretations I can think of:
-You are actually against women having political, social, or economic equality to men.
-You don’t really care so much whether women have full human rights or not, but you want those damn feminists to shut up about the concerns of women.
-You don’t really care about other human beings that much in general.
Pfffft yeah sure dudebro was a lurker. He pretends to lurk, trots out the standard bullshit misogynists always do, then affects surprise at being called out for it.
Just another lying troll.
armeni4ever: Sounds fishy. How does a police spokesman fail to dig deeper the first time? It’s pretty simple to access the database and find the reports.
You work the the SFPD? No… so how do you know that any cop on the phone can access every report ever made in the time it takes to complete a phone call?
Fact of the matter is that finding a specific police report is a non-trivial task.
But you, in the arrogance of declaring who is, or isn’t credible, based on your (completely unbiased, and objective, opinion. One I’m sure you’ve based on your in depth personal knowledge of her habits, gameplay, etc.) opinion of her “gamer” status figure she’s absolutely not worth paying any attention to, which is why you came here to tell us how much you don’t care.
That seems kind of fishy to me.
armenia4ever: I’ll be honest about one thing. I now dismiss feminism entirely – regardless of who is espousing it or the validity of some of their points. (A position is either valid or invalid, regardless of who advocates for it).
I’m throwing out the baby with the bathwater, which isnt exactly rational
You said it.
Did he miss the part of the class where it was discussed that one does not need to be a self-professed “gamer” or given a “gamer” card by a member of the International Gamer Identification Association to play or witness being played a game that features a shitload of misogyny and then remark upon it? In an academic format? There are a lot of academic critiques of a lot of things where the writer isn’t a whatever-she’s-critiquing and it’s still acceptable critique.
I mean, I feel like we already went over this.
Shorter armenia4ever – I’m having a tantrum and you can’t stop me!
My personal evaluation of a real gamer is merely what I think, not some sort of objective truth on the concept
So… why should we care? ReallY. You’ve admitted you don’t care about the truth of it, will dismiss evidence out of hand because the person is “espousing a feminist” opinion (which is actual ad hominem*), admit you are dismissing valid claims because you don’t like them.
You’ve admitted you aren’t intellectiually honest, that you argue in bad faith and will not be swayed by the truth.
Why should anyone give a shit what you have to say? Your a faker, and a liar; a moral cretin and an imbecile; worse, you admit that you know these things to be true, and still expect us to be stupid enough to consider what you have to say as if it were meritorious.
So we can also see you to be an fool and a moron.
*When you say, “I also do enjoy ad hominem attacks, but make them unique and interesting. you actually mean insults, they are different. If you aren’t getting what you think to be your fair share of interesting insults, it’s probably because you are just too boring to be worth the trouble of those whom you irritate to expend more mental energy than needed to point out your baseline lack of personal merit.
In other words, you don’t rate the good stuff.
She plays games, but she’s got a master’s in social and political thought. Her Bachelor’s is in communication.
It may really surprise you, Rob, but nobody needs a license to critique games from the High Cabal Of Initiated and Recognized Gamers in order to say something relevant about video games.
You have a right to your opinion, so does she…and a lot of people seem interested in her opinion. If that reality causes butthurt, I will play a tiny violin for you.
Milo flat out admitted to never playing games before this shit started, weird that he got his ass kissed.
Then he streams Hatoful Boyfriend after some schlub bought it for him.
A game with about the same amount of gameplay as the “NOT A GAME” depression quest, Is dating birds what defines something as a “game”?
Bob, go sit in the corner with Woody. You two will have SO much to talk about.
OT: would anyone else rather the recent comments went back to its smaller format? I don’t like this one, there are fewer to be seen and it’s harder to keep track.
Yeesh. Trolls are out in force on this thread. What is it about Anita Sarkeesian posts that draws them like flies?
Back a page, justakind’s teal dee is a whole “asshole gamer” bingo card in and of itself:
-Sarkeesian isn’t a “real” gamer
-Sarkeesian “stole footage” to use in her videos
-Sarkeesian is cherry picking
-“But you don’t have to play through that incredibly misogynistic scene in the game!”
-“Professional victim”
-Sarkeesian is a lying liar who lies
-Sarkeesian is conning money out if people
-“But think if the poor, misunderstood nerdbros!”
-Sarkeesian is out to destroy video games
-Sarkeesian made the harrassment up…
-…but she totally deserves to be harrassed
-Sarkeesian only presents the bad stuff in video games, what about the good stuff? Y’know, for “balance.”
-And of course, feminists hate men
kittehserf:
Yes. It looks awkward. I like it better the other way.
I vote for smaller comments.
Shorter justakind – I’m the good type of girl gamer, please like me, boys! Please? I’ll throw as many women under the bus as it takes, just ask.
“Did he miss the part of the class where it was discussed that one does not need to be a self-professed “gamer” or given a “gamer” card by a member of the International Gamer Identification Association to play or witness being played a game that features a shitload of misogyny and then remark upon it?”
Yeah, but those cards have really high production quality
I find ‘they’re not a real gamer’ the most bizarre argument these dipsticks trot out; in their mind, it’s trying to raise the spectre of Fox News experts who claim that the fairly vanilla sci-fi game Mass Effect is secretly a hardcore sex game. Obviously it’s a sexist attempt at gatekeeping, but it’s one that’s easily disproven by actually watching the videos or looking at how positively game developers have responded to her videos.
Has anyone pointed out goodgamers.us, the ‘objective’ gaming site started by some of the gamergate dipsticks? Their first game covered, I shit you not, was a game about omnisexual adventurers where rape is a mechanic: http://www.donotlink.com/blji (garbagegamers.us also works, which amuses me). They also put ‘being an avid gamer’ over writing well.
Also, let’s say for a minute that Sarkeesian has never been a gamer. So what? People criticize artforms that they aren’t involved in themselves all the time. Should we go back and delete all Roger Ebert’s movie reviews because he wasn’t a director?
You can’t advocate for games to be taken seriously and at the same time insist that only hardcore fans can write about them. Either games are worth taking seriously, in which case they’re going to be critiqued by anyone who find them interesting, including people outside your clique, or they’re not. Pick an option, because you can’t have both.
Merus:
Holy crap! Did those people play a few sessions of FATAL and think “hey, you know, this needs to be a videogame”?
LOL IRL – but actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some overlap.
And you care so little that you had to tell a bunch of strangers how little you care.
I believe you. *snerk*
Define “actual gamer”.
Wow, you’re an asshole.
Jeezus, this thread sure is bringing out the trolls, isn’t it?
Yes, this. If the cops are doing their job, they shouldn’t even be talking about victims of stalking and harassment, because the person calling might be the stalker/harasser. Not exactly rocket science, guys.
IKR? It’s like he’s never heard of anthropology.
Oh yeah… tighten up the recent comments… that’s terrible layout; unreadable.
So what? So Sarkeesian was lying when she claimed to be a “gamer.” But it’s not like her lies matter to you since she’s spouting the same fake feminism garbage that you do.
BTW, I don’t want her to stop making her videos. The more she exposes herself as an intellectually vapid clown, the less headway she makes into videogames, a hobby that wants nothing to do with her.
OT: Am I the only one angry that Davis Aurini isn’t doing an Elvira-esque horror host show instead of this BS? Can you imagine the public access show of him presenting things like The Creeping Terror or Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things in a cranked-to-11 John Waters schtick? Aurini, drop the misogyny and embrace the camp because the camp sir, my god, the camp.
Also, hi, first-time poster. Y’all make me less miserable about the things I read on this blog.
The icons in the list are too big, they’re spacing everything out. Feels like it’s halved the number of recent comments to be seen.
Regardless, this whole Armenia4Ever is dumb. I personally dismiss anything he has to say as I believe him to be a professional idiot and not an actual thinker.
And yes, I’m going strictly by what he posted.
Was he intending to imply that part of “this” Anita Sarkeesian would be fine, like, say, the sexy bits? Just not “this whole” Sarkeesian? Because otherwise, damn, that’s some awkward sentence structure right there.
Apparently I’m a damn good troll – I didn’t even know I was trolling. This will boost my self esteem!
Wow, some of you are really worked up.
You don’t even know the difference between derision and being worked up, do you? Halfwit.
Couldn’t stick the flounce, either. What a surprise.
You didn’t even stick the flounce, mate.
That’s nice dear.
Bina: Regardless, this whole Armenia4Ever is dumb. I personally dismiss anything he has to say as I believe him to be a professional idiot and not an actual thinker.
Friggin’ professionals are ruining it for us amateurs, who just love teh game.
Why do trolls always think that a few snarky replies to them mean that you’re actually full of table flipping hair pulling rage?
Please do. Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Halfwit. I like it. This is almost like online bullying.
Note, these insults are nothing to us trans folks. We’ve experienced much worse.
Check your cis privilege.
Just my 2 cents, but I think Ms. Sarkeesian’s piece on Hitman was spot on. She even says in her video that it isn’t relevant that you can ignore the 2 strippers for a high score. What makes it sexist is that the girls are merely there to be killed or spared by the player. They are objectified by their disposability and lack of purpose.
I have been gaming for over thirty years. I have had my fill of brothels, strip clubs, and street hookers. I don’t need every game to be aimed more at the fastest growing market (college age women.) However, I am ready or a more complicated tone and a lot less TNA.
“Teh ladies are so emotional.”
Try again, dear, that was weak.
@WWTH
Wishful thinking.
You’re a petty, smarmy dipshit, armenia4ever, and not particularly bright.
I am sure the irony of complaining about bullying while dismissing the harassment Anita Sarkeesian received, and calling her a “professional victim” while trying to use your status to deflect criticism, will be completely lost on you.
I was going to give that a 6 because of the masterful use of a passive-aggressive smiley. But then it was too long and just ended up being a plea for attention. So I’m reducing it to a 4.
Plus two failures to flounce brings us to an even 0.
This statement seems to imply that feminism and the MRM both employ these methods to equal extents, or even that the MRM is the side that very rarely has bad apples that do this, compared to the EVIL FEMINISTS. This is simply not the case. And while you are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts.
I can see how some people might be confused, as the MRM certainly raise a lot of stink any time they receive any pushback. But let me assure you that the situation is much more like this:
Feminist: There are many problematic inequalities that are built into our system and need to be addressed.
*receives a shit-ton of death threats, rape threats, slander, harassment of all stripes, etc etc etc*
Feminist: This stuff is horrible and also illegal stop that.
MRA: Women are evil worthless lying [insert slur of choice here] and need to return to their proper place in society and also [insert baseless assumptions and insults about woman-of-the-hour here]
*receives word about how they are being reactionary, misogynistic, and that the assumptions they made were blatantly incorrect*
MRA: FEMINAZIS ARE TRYING TO SILENCE ME! FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
Pffft and now dudebro tells us he’s trans and laughing at his witless misogyny is some sort of cis privilege.
Guess what, saddo: I don’t actually care if misogynist losers like yourself are cis, trans or whatever.
@armenia4ever
Not everything is a matter of opinion. the FACT is that one does NOT have to PLAY games to know a lot about them. Saying she is wrong because of what she plays or doesn’t play is a very common fallacy called ad hominem and it fucking sucks.
All it takes to know a lot about video games is research, NOT play time. And she is making a damn legit research, her points are very reasonable and that’s clear for anyone who can think logically and is not a depressing bigot who is terrified of change.
and btw, you can have your shitty opinion on what makes one a “real gamer” but that tells more about you than you would like. for instance, it shows arrogance and elitist thinking. you sound like the kind of douchebag who despises girls who play video games and tries to test people – specially girls- to see if they’re “””real””” gamers. shitty fucking culture. That’s why i love video-games, play video-games, have always played video-games and yet I refuse to call myself a fucking “gamer”, you elitists take yourselves FAAAAAAAR too seriously. arg.
so yeah, unless you can’t actually address her reasonable, though-out points and doooooooozens of examples she constantly gives, then you have nothing on her. There is nothing wrong with Anita’s critiques on video-games and she’s not a threat to it, she’s trying to make the industry grow, not shrink, like you shitheads think is the case.
Shorter Trolls: I do not believe/trust/respect w̶o̶m̶e̶n̶ Sarkeesian because of REASONS. After three months of increasing harassment and desperate flounces they
all end up back at the same place.
Oh for the love of all the My Little Ponies…
I know this is confusing, trolls, because “check your privilege” sounds a little bit like “checkmate!”, but it’s not something you can just throw out as an I Instantly Win The Argument card.
Being told to check your privilege is a call to acknowledge your relative lack of expertise when it comes to subjects that (this is the important part) are relevant to that particular aspect of privilege.
If I’m trying to tell a PoC that what they experienced wasn’t really police discrimination…
If I’m trying to tell a woman why her experience of harassment was actually something harmless she overreacted to…
If I’m trying to tell a disabled person that really, they’re just being selfish demanding accessible everything…
… being told to “check my privilege” is a desperately needed call to pull my head in and stop talking down to people who know more about what they’re discussing than I do.
If, on the other hand, I’m arguing about topic that have nothing to do with trans issues, and prompting hostility by being belligerently immune to any discussion, and then out of the blue I try to accuse my critics of hostility to trans people, for criticisms that are completely unrelated to trans*-ness and by the way, I’m trans, and I tell people to “check their cis privilege” …
… then I’m being a colossal asshole and trying to use the “NotYourShield” tactics to manipulate people into not criticising me.
tl;dr version – you can’t call “privilege!” when the discussion doesn’t relate to that axis of privilege
(just to be clear, I’m cis, and that’s a hypothetical situation in the last scenario)
YAY David has restored the Recent Comments sidebar!
No True Gamer makes me lol. Like, No True Gamer would ever give games an academic-style critique, therefore Sarkeesian can’t possibly be a gamer.
It’s very tidy – it doesn’t matter how much Sarkeesian has played games, or how many games she’s played. If she conducts a critique, she is No True Gamer.
It’s a bit different from how the fallacy is typically used, and might make an interesting topic for study.
@PoM:
The thing it calls to mind for me is the “love it or leave it!” types who automatically assume that the only two positions one can hold on a nation are uncritical full-throated adoration or utter condemnation. The idea that one can be a patriot and still think there are problems with their country that need fixing (other than lack of patriotism!) just doesn’t register.
Similarly, I think a lot of these gamebros aren’t willing to let people occupy any middle ground – they’re trying to artificially divide everybody into “loves games/gamers” or “hates games/gamers”. There’s no room for nuance.
Thanks for outlining this. It’s an idea I’ve often had trouble articulating in non-feminist spaces with vague familiarity of the privilege concept.
Good decision :D
Although I wonder whether it’s just wordpress developers dicking around with the code. Didn’t we have something weird a few weeks ago too?
That is the stupidest definition of a gamer I’ve heard. Just because you have an opinion armenia4ever, doesn’t mean you’re not objectively wrong. Because you are. That it’s “just your opinion” means you have wrong and stupid opinions.
@armenia4ever
You seem to be another one of those “My lack of emotional investment in the subject obviously makes me more qualified to express my opinion about it than people whose lives are affected by it!” douchebags. You know what? Refusing to empathize does not make you a superior person. It makes you an asshole.
To me, “professional victim” sounds like a sort of modern equivalent for “hysterical”. Both exist to dismiss a woman’s experience because she’s irrational and overtly emotional and her actions don’t make sense because ladybrain. In other words, misogynistic shit.
Again with the “this is my opinion” bullshit. Discussing problematic issues that affect peoples’ lives on a daily basis is not the same as comparing ice cream flavors, asshole. If you think that an attitude that condones actions that actively harm others are a matter of opinion, you have no business to expect people to respect said opinion. You are allowed to share it, but other people are allowed to call you a terrible human being for it. That’s how free speech works. It’s not freedom of consequence for saying shitty things, no matter how you click your heels and say it is so.
I love how first you’re all like “I’m dismissing feminism because feminists take terrible shit affecting them so personally” and then “Hey guys, I’m totally trans, so criticizing the ignorant, patronizing shit I say makes you a bad person!” Like being a member of a minority instantly raises you above criticism. Newsflash: it doesn’t work that way, buddy. Nobody is harassing you for being a member of a particular group. People are mocking idiots saying stupid things, not attacking a woman on the internet for… pretty much just being a woman on the internet.
By comparing being called a halfwit for saying stupid things in the comment section of a blog to receiving a constant stream of personal attacks on multiple fronts on the internet and being driven out of your home by RL harassment, you’ve ultimately proven that your personal opinion on the subject of harassment is null and void. Go grow some empathy and try again.
@justakind:
That’s nice. So sending rape and death threats to a female critic is fine since you don’t like her? Go grow some empathy and try again.
@Bob Simpson:
a) Quit with the smileys. You’re not fooling anyone with your passive aggressive bullshit.
b1) You’re one of those trolls who reads a headline and then jumps straight to the comment section to go “nuh-uh, you are!” without bothering to read the article, aren’t you?
b2) You’re five years old, aren’t you?
c) Go grow some emp…
You know what? No. Just fuck off.