#GamerGater declares "the only harassers are anti-GGers." Then sexually harasses an anti-GamerGate woman

Aaand oopsie’d by David above.

Well, anyhow. The point about harassment still stands, so nyeahh.

So it seems that today the marching orders of GamerGate are as follows

I bet they just went “let’s get evidence of the OVERWHELMING HARRASSMENT against us!”

Which would produce the steps as you described them.

What is it with people trying to use a mental illness as a shield against criticism when they (or others) act like abusive assholes? Just like having a mental illness doesn’t mean you’re automatically a horrible person, it doesn’t give you a “get out of responsibility for your actions free” card.

We’re not criticizing Cameralady for being autistic. We’re saying she’s a horrible person because she is harassing and abusing people.

I’ve never read popehat before, but if that article’s typical of its output, I’m never reading it again. I’m not sure which I found more eye-rollingly pretentious: the overplay of gamerghazi (it’s totally part of an eternal war fought since the dawn of modern history!) or the smug, “let me tell you how the world works, there’s two kinds of people” biological determinism.

(There’s also the implied contradiction of citing millions of years’ worth of evolution and then calling the “kulturkampf” a thousand-year war. Urg, that whole article just riled me up.)

They’re some horrible gaslighting bastards. I think the rule is, “anything they’ve accused their opponents of is something they’re in the middle of doing”.

I completely agree. It’s nothing but projection, obtusification, and gaslighting.

And really, who are they trying to fool? No, seriously, who are they trying to fool?

Pretty much anyone who has been on the internet since the late 80s/early 90s knows about the group of trolling shitheads who troll because they’re assholes. There’s entire articles, blog posts, funny pictures, etc. about “how to be a troll” that pretty much sums up every single thing the trolls are doing. We’ve had about 20-30 fucking years to study Trollus Assholus in xie’s natural environment.

People are really tired of this shit. We were tired of it back in the 90s. We were tired of it in the last decade. We know you’re shitweasels, perhaps you might want to stop being shitweasels? Try that for a change?

Instead, they go for the old n’ moldy, unoriginal stagnating beliefs and methods that are so transparent, some guy just walked through it and wondered what that shattering sound was. If you manage to make a majority of the internet hate you, you are still a shitweasel, and no, your “Achievement Unlocked” badge will not be coming in the mail. All you win is a trophy of socks that smell just as horrid as your pathetic desperation.

She’s been around for awhile on Youtube–but, this is granted secondhand because I haven’t been willing to comb through the videos myself, but what I’ve been told is that she’s always behind-the-scenes on the Short Fat Otaku stuff, that maybe once there was a woman’s voice that was supposedly her? One instance of there being a female voice plus a lot of things in which she has no name, no voice, no videos of her own, no pictures, no identifying information, and then she’s conveniently everything GG thinks it needs to defend itself from criticism? Yeah, I don’t buy it. Not that a lesbian on the spectrum couldn’t be this poorly-behaved, but it’s awfully convenient that she’s a lesbian on the spectrum who talks like and acts like and completely 100% agrees with a bunch of straight guys about absolutely everything ever.

I mean, does anybody REALLY believe that her grudge in all of this is actually that Zoe Quinn really used an anti-autism insult against her once? And if she lied about that from the beginning of her involvement with GG, why should we believe any other word she says?

Ken is a bit of a free speech absolutist, but consistent in that position; I can respect that even when I disagree.

I don’t. Free speech absolutists are either ignorant or hypocrites, because they defend speech even when it impinges on other rights or when it’s meant to intimidate other people into not exercising THEIR freedom of speech. That kind of absolutism always ends up benefitting the already privileged.

@zoon

I totally agree with that.

Also, surprise surprise. This is just in from the Facebook page Being Feminist: https://www.facebook.com/BeingFeminist

Warning to our members: fake feminist pages

Recently some anti-feminist MRAs have been creating “feminist pages” to try and either infiltrate, or “trap” feminists by going all “straw feminist” and extreme and claiming to be the face of feminism or something.

One of these pages is “Feminists for Social Justice”, a page supposedly created by “Lauren Jenson”, a former MA and worker at the Feminist Studies Department of UCSB.

To confirm its fakeness I contacted UCSB’s feminist department and they said no one by that name had studied or worked there.

They have screenshots as well.

Are we supposed to feel confused? I feel slightly confused…

That is one of the MRA, I think AVFM, ongoing projects. Reporting Feminist pages, creating fake accounts and fake pages. Most of them are so obvious that people don’t bother with them. Although it has been frustrating for some people to have lost all their posts and pictures.

BTW, that whole Brianna Wu makes fun of autistic people tweet, that’s a fake, and this is one of the best videos I’ve seen on this whole thing. Brianna discusses, at one point, the template they have up at 8chan for this.

Luzbelitix, actually, it’s kind of worrying that they’re posting accurate stuff right now instead of clearly straw. Given the fondness for doxxing these folks have, I worry that they’ll gain the trust of some vulnerable (& probably niave) folks and do some real harm

That is exactly what they do, Skye. Once you like or join the page they send friend requests and PMs trying to find out as much as they can for their doxxing page.