Zoe Quinn has had it.
Yesterday, fed up with the equivocating bullshit that’s constantly being said in the media and within gaming circles about #GamerGate, and pissed off at all those who think of themselves as good people but still refuse to see the hatred and misogyny and harassment and doxxing that has been central to GG since the start, Quinn posted a series of (justifiably) angry tweets calling out the cowards in the profession who know that what’s going on is deeply evil but won’t say anything, and documenting the unending harassment she and her boyfriend, and her family, and his family are still getting.
Was that even a sentence? I don’t know. The point is she’s STILL getting harassed. She’s STILL getting “prank” calls. She’s STILL getting death threats. People are STILL digging around in her personal life and the personal life of everyone connected to her.
And she’s not the only one. The newest target of #GamerGate wrath? Indie game developer Brianna Wu, who, as I noted in my last post, got death threats … for posting memes on Twitter.
Meanwhile, two creepy obsessed assholes are still begging for money to make a documentary they hope will ruin Anita Sarkeesian.
Oh, but #GamerGate is about ethics.
I’m just going to paste in a bunch of Quinn’s Tweets here, because they pretty much speak for themselves.
to the "moderates" of gamergate: how do you think you can get rid of corruption in journalism when you can't rid your own movement of it?
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
and to those who are anti-gg and silent – the more people who speak out the less vulnerable those who do speak out are.
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
If you are just watching this from the sidelines, scared, I don't blame you. But it does force the burden of fighting this on those targeted
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
"How do you fight it?" – Condemn it. Offer moral support to those targeted. Signal boost the stuff that debunks the ridiculous claims
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
If you are still remaining silent or saying "but both sides have points" I am losing more and more patience for you as this continues 🙁
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
I make a post saying I refuse to talk about my personal life? Hacked and doxxed. Phil stands up for me? Hacked and doxxed.
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
We all keep being told none of this is happening, people and websites still treat the movement with skepticism about what it is
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
Meanwhile *I* had to do the investigation into gamergate and blow that shit open with the IRC while watching them talk about raping me
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
I followed up on the IRC log here and here, but I wouldn’t have known about it if she hadn’t been there first collecting screenshots.
Anything but scorching the goddamned earth on gamergate is turning a blind eye as more and more women & feminists are targeted
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
if you have ANY shred of decency and consider yourself part of gamergate, stop asking us to suffer for your movement. Leave and start anew.
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
I don't care how many enemies I make now, this shit needs to stop. If you've just watched and let this happen, you should be ashamed
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
There is no "both sides" here. People against GG's actions are not organized, or campaigning, or using a hashtag.
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
There's a mob, and their targets
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
If you are choosing to stay silent, let me ask you this – how shitty would you feel if one of these people made good on their threats?
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
How can you be comfortable letting people like alex & I, who are combatting the IRL fallout of GG, fight the online fights too
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
god damnit I hate being angry and going on twitter tirades but fuck this has to stop
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
Take the time to enlarge the pics on these tweets:
for those of you keeping score, on the 16th it will be two months of alex and I living under shit like this pic.twitter.com/S1HC1DVph2
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
stop defending this pic.twitter.com/GzO9BKMDas
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
stop defending this pic.twitter.com/XNuNcD3dx6
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
stop defending this pic.twitter.com/poVhGZGGjc
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
stop pretending this isn't happening in your front yard pic.twitter.com/HhueTH4tV8
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
I have a 16 fucking gig folder of this shit
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
And then there’s … this:
Literally getting accused of killing gamers pic.twitter.com/km6GXoiIVc
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 8, 2014
Also, she gets phone calls:
cool dude with a soundboard who has been calling me around this hour for the last week periodically is back at it again
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
between that and the pizzas they tried to order to me with my dox I think we may be dealing with real actual 12 year old, folks
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 11, 2014
Oh, you don’t believe she gets phone calls? Ta da:
.@Kheapathic @the_moviebob oh I'm sorry, did you just say this didn't happen? Bad news we recorded it https://t.co/LE0CQj8Upe
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 2, 2014
As the MRAs say: Always Be Recording. Except that Zoe Quinn actually has a good reason to do this.
It’s kind of amazing that Quinn manages to retain a sense of humor in the midst of all this.
whenever gamergate is finally over and the dust settles, someone's gonna go "The aristocrats!" and it'll all make sense
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
because the last two months have been the grossest, longest drawn-out-est joke I've seen in my entire life
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
and it's not even a funny joke. it's just sad, absurd, and has destroyed a lot of peoples' lives
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
Gamer inside joke!
every time a creep yells at me for something anita did I delay half life 3 another year
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 8, 2014
Also, kitty:
to make up for my grumpyass, here's the cutest twitter feed. It autotweets when a cat comes home through its catdoor https://t.co/StWNbK8Q8d
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) October 10, 2014
“This name, in any of its forms, is a common colloquialism in Russian for a bear, because it is similar to the standard name for bear медведь (medved).”
*faceplants with joy
I feel your pain. As for me, if that event ever happens, I’ll make sure to watch it, and then I’ll mock away. Besides, the ludicrously mislabelled “journalists” on Fox & Friends are highly mockable no matter what they’re making us facepalm over, and they deservedly get mocked often, especially by the late-night comedians.
Even though the Pentagon’s been heavily subsidizing the whole FPS genre since they commissioned America’s Army for the US Army back in the ’90s. I suspect that’s why most FPSes since then are military. I won’t be surprised if the GamerGaters turn out to be not just pro-military but pro-war.
Nah, this is exactly the kind of conspiracy Glenn Beck would conspire in, if he conspired with his good buddy the MRA preacher Mark Driscoll, naturally wearing their matching trilbies fedoras. No, these GamerGate MRA clowns don’t surprise me one bit; Beck and Jones schooled them, after all.
(Uh-oh, looks WordPress failed to cross out “trilbies” even though I used an <s> tag…)
WordPress likes the del tag here, for some reason.
Belated Hi, btw. 🙂
GamerGate is vile. If you think it’s about ethics in games reporting, you haven’t studied:
a) ethics
b) journalism
c) GamerGate
Seriously, nothing’s stopping Gaters from making a push for more objective games reporting. Get a journalism degree and change the industry practices yourself. Promote the games you love by playing them, buying them, and writing about how awesome they are. Explain what makes these games so great. Start your own review site and build it to be the industry beacon for passionate, well-researched games journalism.
GamerGate is not the way. It’s a terrifying, violent hate group. If that’s not how you want to identify yourself, get far the hell away and gone from GamerGate *now*. That filth is gonna stick.
Ahhh, good to know. I thought it looked a little too even-handed and level-headed to be those guys. (Also, it was late here, and my eyes were buggy.)
I know I posted this already in the other thread, but I should also put it here: this doesn’t look like a conspiracy theory to me. It looks like a plan to physically assault ZQ, with this “a friend of a friend said” business released ahead of time so that when ZQ shows up somewhere injured from the assault, she won’t be believed.
I would take this as a threat and a plan of violence.
Goes to show how far out of touch he is on this one. It’s NOT about “censorship”. Death threats and rape threats are NOT free speech. He ought to understand that full well, since he faces a possible death sentence for espionage. The layers of irony are getting too many to count.
I joined twitter several years back purely to play Fallen London. Just sent out a tweet on #gamergate. Lets see what happens.
Bina sez:
Not to mention, the threats are an attempt to suppress the target’s ability to speak freely.
Somewhat off-topic. I’m a twitter noob; how do I enlarge pictures enough to read them? For example, in one of Zoe’s posts linked up there, there’s a long thin picture of what looks like a Tumblr inbox. But I can’t enlarge it nearly enough to read it; twitter insists on fixing its height to the height of my screen and I can’t zoom in 🙁
Good point. And none of these chumpions of freedumb are criticizing the US Army’s use of online games to lure kids several years too young to enlist, either.
It’s almost like this “journalistic” integrity of which they bleat is just a red herring for the persecution of women gamers, developers and media critics!
So I went to the link provided in the Thunderclap campaign and what did I see? Right on the front page is one of those “see!? We’re totally harassed too!” stories that has pictures of tweets from some guy threatening to go to the address of a known creepy cyberstalker and murder him. You know what was missing? Any kind of black box or other covering of the address in question. There is no way this is an oversight: they just really don’t give a shit about who gets hurt because to them, an “anti-GG” person getting hurt = false flag and a pro-GG person getting hurt = “THEY’RE DOING ALL THE BAD THINGS THEY ACCUSE US OF DOING!” Keep in mind one Thunderclap participant has 355,000 followers.
No, I’m not linking to it directly. The guy they “accidentally” doxxed may be an asshole, but I have standards.
So y’all know how this fabled Gamergate is about “ethics in journalism”, and disclosuring connections and definitely absolutely not about corruption and being cozy with creators, yeah?
Funny how this happened, then:
https://twitter.com/TheQuinnspiracy/status/521357384682586112
I approve. Looks a bit Cheburashka influenced.
http://s1.hubimg.com/u/5175654_f520.jpg
Oh god, the Gor RPG. You had to go and remind me I live in a world where someone is trying to make Gor RPG, didn’t you, skiriki?
skiriki: I really don’t think there’s a problem with people who went into VG writing because they love games backing a crowdfunding project because … they love games. The way GamerHate trolls try to hold that up as some kind of GOTCHA is stupid – the hypocrisy of not having a problem with it if it’s someone from “their side” is staggering.
Fibinachi:
I’m just hoping it’ll get the same kind of review as FATAL got back in the day. That was legendary. I might have to buy it for Darren MacLennan and Jason Sartin for reviewing, if it goes down to that.
@skiriki…did he seriously just back a fundraiser based on the Chronicles of Gor? SERIOUSLY? What in the name of hagfish?
@strivingally — I confus. I mean, TheQuinnspiracy account belongs to Zoe Quinn herself, and she’s the one pointing out how, funnily enough, this stuff gets a pass. 🙂
Goddamn that Olympics mascot has a terrifying face.
I’ve read James Desborough stuff (the “humorous” RPG supplement “The Slayer’s Guide to Girl Gamers”) and frankly, his Gor RPG wouldn’t be make a good epic review, because it would be offensive in a terribly commonplace way, rather than several hundred pages of vile and crazy.
Yup, that Gor thingmajig sure convinced me there’s no misogyny in gaming! And that tweet sure convinced me that this is all about teh journamalistic integriteeeeeee…
I am not myself a gamer (my wife and son are, to some extent), but in the course of chasing around the various right-wing attempts to claim that Obama is deliberately bringing Ebola to the US (or in fact ordered the current strain of the virus to be engineered), I came across a couple of commentaries on Gamergate. I don’t think there is anything these people say that hasn’t been said many times here, but I thought people might be interested that there seems to be fairly strong support for the opinions that are generally expressed here.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/8/6919179/stop-supporting-gamergate
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/10/11/serious-question-if-you-are-concerned-about-journalistic-ethics-why-are-you-a-part-of-gamergate/?__lsa=1b31-19ec
Gor RPG. This is the kind of thing the GamerGaters want to destroy casual games and women-in-gaming for. Gor represents what MRAs want women to be. Figures.
FATAL on the other hand — now there’s something completely off the rails (I mean like, roll 20d100 to injure a man’s vagina without breaking his skin — wtf?). Kinda like GamerGate itself…