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

Post memes on Twitter making fun of #GamerGaters, get death threats.
Post memes on Twitter making fun of #GamerGaters, get death threats.

The memes above? A fan of indie game developer Brianna Wu made them, using the text from some of Wu’s acerbic tweets about #GamerGaters. Wu thought the memes were funny, and posted them to Twitter.

It turns out that #GamerGaters don’t really have much of a sense of humor about themselves.

Over on 8chan, the regulars decided to take over the meme.

It got nastier — TRIGGER WARNING for what follows for explicit, violent threats.

And nastier still.

Oh, but #GamerGate isn’t about misogyny. …

Then, believe it or not, it got worse:

And then it escalated to death threats:

All this because she made a few fucking jokes on Twitter. About #GamerGaters. While being a woman.

Oh, but #GamerGate is about ethics.

But guess what, assholes:

 

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blahlistic (@blahlistic)
blahlistic (@blahlistic)
10 years ago

…Not a fan of MRA’s. Fan of WW2 stuff. Sorry, we are strange people in this head.

vaiyt
vaiyt
10 years ago

I mean, that worked so well for racism! The solution for racism, as we all know, is to just stop talking about it. It went away immediately, in 1877, when Congress decided Reconstruction was over and it was time for everyone to just stop talking about race and move on from the Civil War. The United States has been a postracial paradise ever since, with people of all colors and backgrounds living together in perfect harmony, with no prejudice or discrimination to be found.

I’m not American, and this feels sooo familiar…

blahlistic (@blahlistic)
blahlistic (@blahlistic)
10 years ago

And for someone who claimed that we can’t take jokes, how on earth did he get sexual prowess out of that? Talk about missing a joke.

welll…if he’s laughing at us, that’s funny. If we’re laughing at him, that’s totally not funny!
#manlylogic

weirwoodtreehugger
weirwoodtreehugger
10 years ago

The latest troll is too much of a dipshit to even bother arguing with. The rest of you covered it.

I just want to know one thing. What the fuck is a new age feminist? Is he misusing the word new age and really meant 3rd wave? Or does he think we’re all into crystals and astrology? Maybe some Mammotheers are new agey. That’s cool. But it sure as hell doesn’t accurately describe me.

blahlistic (@blahlistic)
blahlistic (@blahlistic)
10 years ago

I’m not new agey. I’m a fluffy-white-lighter igniter.

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
10 years ago

Yanno the Poor Man song? It’s sung to the tune of Kokomo and it begins: Enormous mendacious disembodied anus, and gets better as it goes along.
When the trolls bring the pretentious that song becomes an instant earworm.

Bina
Bina
10 years ago

I just want to know one thing. What the fuck is a new age feminist? Is he misusing the word new age and really meant 3rd wave? Or does he think we’re all into crystals and astrology? Maybe some Mammotheers are new agey. That’s cool. But it sure as hell doesn’t accurately describe me.

I have no idea what a “new age feminist” is. I’m Wiccan, and all that Pyramid Power shit totally did nothing for me. I never did manage to channel a 10,000 year old “enlightened one” from my bowels, either.

Calling on Nemesis or Hecate to fix dumb dudes’ little red wagons, though, is another story.

katz
katz
10 years ago

…That one poster has the Kalashnikov with the drum mag…has ooh shiny…

It looks like a PPSh-41. The Soviets knew how to make a good-looking SMG.

…Not a fan of MRA’s. Fan of WW2 stuff. Sorry, we are strange people in this head.

Same here. (But you are following me on Twitter so you know that.)

Bina
Bina
10 years ago

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.

COOL STORY, BRO.

Meanwhile, out here in REALITY, a woman just recently got shot to death for refusing to give some complete stranger her phone number. Her three children are now motherless because some horny dude couldn’t keep his goddamned massive fragile ego in his pants. Or his gun, either.

Yeah, tell us again how “threatened” you’ve been. It seems the only truly threatened men you deign to mention are guys who were actually famous, and famous for being professionally inflammatory. Not one of them was ever doxxed and stalked and threatened for (allegedly) being sexually promiscuous, as Zoe Quinn was.

As for you, I don’t know you from Adam, and I don’t CARE to know you. Especially since you say shit like this:

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.

Dude, we “can’t take jokes” because YOUR SHIT IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY. Don’t bother trying to foist it on us and then haw-hawing at how “humorless” we are. Our funnybones work just fine, but you don’t know how to tickle them. You couldn’t tickle your own arse with a feather — or a whole damn chicken, come to that. You have no sense of humor. Please, don’t quit your boring day job. It suits you perfectly. And I hope, for the sake of all the women in the office, that you’re not allowed to talk to them, because shit like this…

The fact that you have cats whose sexual prowess impresses you is unsurprising to me.

…isn’t funny either. It’s a seriously creepy boner-note. You projected your own yuckiness on a complete stranger, idiot. NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR STUPID BONER, capisce?

cloudiah
cloudiah
10 years ago

@katz, You made my evening with those. :: standing ovation ::

katz
katz
10 years ago

I can’t imagine why the MGTOW haven’t done anything with this poster yet.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_z559U9elTTQ/SQZ2p-ud9QI/AAAAAAAAABA/xiIZ3y5RlBw/s1600/Poster_Kissing_Soldier_Peas%5B1%5D.jpg

Bina
Bina
10 years ago

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.

Tell ya what, Timmeh. How about you go first, so I can giggle at the sight of you, impaled groin-first on a Swiss Guard’s pikestaff? Because nothing would amuse me more than to see some would-be macho hoisted on his own petard by a fabulous dude in poofy pants.

blahlistic (@blahlistic)
blahlistic (@blahlistic)
10 years ago

I can’t imagine why the MGTOW haven’t done anything with this poster yet.

@ Katz: you could fix that, or someone could?

I mean…it exemplifies the brotherly love of men, right?

blahlistic (@blahlistic)
blahlistic (@blahlistic)
10 years ago

(…Just noting that poster being a great example of an act in one culture having a totally different meaning in another culture…Anthropological ooh shiny…)

indifferentsky
indifferentsky
10 years ago

To the person who said, “if I moved every time I got a threat”

Question: Why are you focused on who is moving where? Is that really pertinent here?

General Question: What is wrong with people’s minds? They don’t appear to function properly many times.

This was a horrible horrible post. I wish I could do something to help these people.

Fibinachi
Fibinachi
10 years ago

Wait, cats licking themselves is an example of sexual prowess?

I don’t normally say this, errh, but, hum,, tim? You might want to lay off the porn. Just for a bit. Sorta warping your ability to comprehend sentences and sling “I got’chas” at people.

@Katz:

You are a goddess. Thank you for the laughter.

katz
katz
10 years ago

@ Katz: you could fix that, or someone could?

I mean…it exemplifies the brotherly love of men, right?

I wanted to say “Men going their own way. Except not you guys. You’re making us uncomfortable.” but I feel weird putting homophobic slogans on posters, even if I’m just mocking MGTOW views.

(…Just noting that poster being a great example of an act in one culture having a totally different meaning in another culture…Anthropological ooh shiny…)

Exactly so. For instance, I doubt this would have happened when American lines met, no matter how happy they were to see each other.

http://ww2db.com/images/battle_leningrad35.jpg

strivingally
strivingally
10 years ago

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/55250585.jpg

I’ve been flooding the meme generator to push the GG-made ones off the front page. Here’s one of my favourites. 😀

strivingally
strivingally
10 years ago

Ahahahahaha. Dishonest fuckers.

Now they’re trying to claim picture is of an autistic kid, it’s been used in a presentation about autism, and OMG isn’t that proof that SJWs are the TRUE bigots?!

Except that a fucking 30sec reverse image search pulls up the bigstockphoto.com link

http://static7.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/2/6/4/small2/4627527.jpg

So who’s the ableist pieces of shit trying to score points using autistic people?

strivingally
strivingally
10 years ago

And now the memegenerator has been deleted. Wondering why.

creepy cupcake
creepy cupcake
10 years ago

most people online are all mouth and no trousers. i have had all kinds of threats on yahoo answers and i just humour them. i usually just use the line ‘oooo sounds kinky. must go dildo myself’. and its not the reaction they expect. they want me to get mad but im broken enough to find it amusing…

weirwoodtreehugger
weirwoodtreehugger
10 years ago

Strivingally,
That’s rich considering how often these assholes use the “what if he’s autistic?” excuse to justify the creepy and invasive behavior of someone they know damn well is neurotypical and knows exactly what he’s doing when he violates women’s.

vaiyt
vaiyt
10 years ago

@creepy cupcake
Good for you. A lot of people don’t have that luxury.

Hyatt
Hyatt
10 years ago

“It happens all the time” doesn’t make it okay. Instead of mocking people who take online abuse and threats seriously, we should be working to make them unacceptable.

Kizone kaprow
Kizone kaprow
10 years ago

JOURNALIST HAS AN OPINION ON RAPE, LIBERTARIANS WANT HIM DEAD
What is it about journalist Ezra Klein that makes the gossiping hens in this libertarian chicken coop lose their shit in an orgy of vicious, clucking hate-fantasies?
https://plus.google.com/107239622986962459167/posts/H7yQ7LBFhPJ

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