Yet another woman in gaming has been driven from her home by death threats

Is there a reason we need to let GG comments through? Isn’t the whole point that they need to not be given a platform?

Question – I’ve heard the “anti gamergate sjws have doxxed gamer gaters! Bohooooo” who? Where? Because I’ve seen Jack shit there, and feel like the projection is strong.

Agh, sorry for all the typos :/

Question – I’ve heard the “anti gamergate sjws have doxxed gamer gaters! Bohooooo” who? Where? Because I’ve seen Jack shit there, and feel like the projection is strong.

So the thing is, it seems clear that some Gators have been doxxed and otherwise faced consequences for their activities. (At least one of them was apparently fired for engaging in GG activities while at work so you know, in at least that case it was more down to his behavior than anyone else’s.) The thing is, GG is an actual semi-organized group of people, whereas the rest of us are just … everyone else on the planet who isn’t part of GG.

All we can do is continue to not doxx or harass people, condemn anyone that does doxx or harass people, and offer sympathy to anyone who has wrongly had their lives upended by doxxing or harassment. (But not that dude who was GGing at work, because dude, that’s just your own poor judgment coming back to bite you in the ass.)

Damn it, reading about this whole debacle just fills me with unconsolable rage. Why in the flaming fuck are there so many goddamned misogynistic assholes on this planet?

It’s because of issues like this one that I’m now convinced we must do our utmost to purge the gaming community of these reactionary bigoted dickheads. Give them no quarter, as they have likewise done to us!

Fuck, I seriously feel like hurting someone right now.

Actually I think Carolyn Vaneseltine summed it up well here: The “good name” of GamerGate.

To be clear: I don’t think every person calling themselves part of GamerGate is evil. I think a lot of you probably do care about games journalism, and while I think you’re misguided, that doesn’t mean you’re all monsters.

But as long as you use the term “I’m part of GamerGate” to mean “I want better ethics in video game journalism”, then you are choosing to stand under the same umbrella as the people who use the term “I’m part of GamerGate” to mean “I will harass female game devs into quitting the industry”.

And the harassers’ claim to the name is stronger than yours, because they started GamerGate.
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If you truly care about ethical journalism in video games, then now is the time to act. Don’t give harassers a shield of respectability to hide behind. State your clear, unequivocal rejection of harassment tactics and then start a new movement.

If you don’t step away… then you are part of a hate movement.

There’s still time to change your mind.

This right here?
Herp Derp, how do you know all the rape and death threats are coming from the people engaged in a campaign of death and rape threats?

It is so fucking stupid.

Misogynist fluff for brains tried that same dismissal in the atheist community. They also claimed that the women were doing it to themselves or that mysterious people outside of the community (probably scaaaaarey Christians) were doing it to make atheist men look bad. The women who are still being threatened and harassed were also accused of making atheist men look bad by talking about what atheist men (and a few women) were doing to them.

I’ve seen all the plays in the misogynist harasser playbook and none of them are smart, remotely ethical or original. It’s the same old nut and slut to shut her up, then threaten her with rape and murder tactics that have been used to discredit and silence women down through the ages. It’s the only shtick they’ve got.

There are always going to be idiots and haters. If I moved every time I got a threat I’d still be bouncing around like a BB in an empty paint can. I dare to say that the issues I faced were slightly more conducive to violent opposition attacks than an offbeat gamer spat involving some slobbering goober in his mom’s basement, operating under a pseudonym, scaring Sally with stupid tweets.

Over some insipid gamer issue? Wow. Just wow. You know there are half a dozen men in my lifetime who I can name off the top of my head and who actually had views on real issues, spoke out against them publicly and got killed because of it. On real issues that instill much more of a response than some coward pseudonymous Twitterer blasting out a vulgar missive from the bunker of his mom’s basement. Ferchrissakes. RIP Alan Berg. Peter McWilliams, et.al.

And you new-age feminists wonder why the vast majority of ‘the rest of us’ are scratching our heads, mocking you, or just laughing hysterically at the carnival show?

Tracking the New Misogyny? How about attending to the ‘old’ stuff first? I’ll be waiting for you when you put down the mouse and keyboard and log off your role as Warrior Princess Goddess of Marlarkia on WOW (or whatever polygon spewing nonsense has warped your delicate sensibilities). We’ll make a run on the Pope together. You provide cover. I’ll do the heavy lifting. Same as it ever was. I think the Saudi family is too well protected for you to free your oppressed sisters in that part of the world, but the Pope? We might be able to bum rush that old fuck.

(Because I have noted a strong feminist inability to differential humor from threat, as well as not being entirely clear on the nature of the ‘intelligence’ behind automatic threat assessment terrorist technology, let me be clear: I do not actually wish to do any physical harm to anybody, let alone the Pope.

I already know too many feminists who can’t take a joke so I thought I’d make that clear before any misshapen girls in sun dresses start reaching for smelling salts. That’s descriptive, not disparaging. I like misshapen girls in sun dresses as much as the next guy.

(cross posted to my blog (http://wp.me/pHN7O-1ix) with a link back to here since I can never (almost assuredly) count on getting my posts blocked because there’s no honest way to answer my challenges without looking even sillier and there’s nothing left you can DOX me on. I DOX myself so deep and wide that the Grand Canyon is jealous. The more you know about me the greater my gravitas.

Enjoy

I mean, I’m not even a particularly good writer, so I should leave the real fisking of that silly comment to someone like katz. But even I know that “I DOX myself so deep and wide that the Grand Canyon is jealous” is just seriously BAD writing, of the kind that can win contests for really BAD writing.

Yeah, I don’t really want to deal with these guys.

They just give off too much of an “all attention is good attention” vibe and clearly aren’t going to have anything even sort of resembling a back-and-forth conversation. So letting their comments through feels to me like giving them what they want.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2013/01/the-threat-of-rape-is-a-tool-for-controlling-women.html

thetimchannel:

“GamerGate is not important enough to care about, but important enough for me to tut-tut at you because #notallgamers”

Seriously? Who’s overreacting here? Us, or the people who have made a mountain of threats and harassment over “some insipid gamer issue”?