Today, a quick quiz to see how closely you’ve been following controversies in the world of video gaming. Well, a quiz that’s sort of been shoehorned into a poll. The correct answer(s) come after the bump. Enjoy!
ANSWER: The only quote from Sarkeesian was the final one. The rest of the quotes come from disbarred attorney Jack Thompson, the infamous anti-videogame crusader who, in one of the more headsmackingly ironic twists in the whole #GamerGate saga, is garnering plaudits from #GamerGaters because he said a few negative things about Sarkeesian in an interview with Jordan Owen for the allegedly forthcoming alleged documentary The Sarkeesian Effect.
Here are a few Tweets I’ve borrowed from a Storify collection put together by the indefatigable @a_man_in_black.
https://twitter.com/JakALope044/status/534823156641312768
In retrospect, Jack Thompson doesn't really seem like that bad of a guy.https://t.co/gUnoRssTpZ #GamerGate #OpSKYNET #NotYourShield
— BenLuke (@ben_legion) November 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/VesuvianPrime/status/534821409810546688
https://twitter.com/Dyucks/status/534821715915046912
Can't you just smell the irony of Jack Thompson signing up against corruption? Maybe the media lied?#Solution6 #GamerGate #OpSKYNET
— Mr.Bones (@40KEKS) November 18, 2014
The things Jack Thompson is saying are reasonable. He just never upheld them as a lawyer. #GamerGate
— Jackie Brown (@GOBBBluth) November 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/Pugnodigranito/status/534825645550104576
https://twitter.com/thewtfmagazine/status/534826963706576897
Bobby K and Jack Thompson just go to show that people are more complex than how we demonize them. #GamerGate's been amazing, man.
— 華胥の亡霊 🍥 (@saigyoujisama) November 18, 2014
>inb4 this thread gets screencapped by man in black to prove we totes love jack thompson pic.twitter.com/HFRC1O0dCD
— zaratustra (parody account) 🍉 (@zarawesome) November 18, 2014
Boy, it seems like only yesterday that Sarkeesian’s enemies were comparing her to Jack Thompson in order to make her look bad. Oops, my bad. It was the day before yesterday.
For the sources of all the Thompson quotes, see here. Sarkeesian’s quote is from here.
Is it against FHC rules to force a man to do my misandering? Or is that technically more misandrist? *can feel misandrist of the year award slipping through fingers*
Hahaha, I STAND CORRECTED MAMMOTHEERS.
I’ve come close to making scented candle jokes around non-Mammotheers before. But I stopped myself.
Shaun: exactly. And what on earth is he expecting people to do when they hear that? “Aw shucks Julien, we can’t stay mad at you. 🙂 You’re too adorable to be a rapist!”
sunnysombrera, or perhaps “we’re so sorry Julien not-a-misogynist-at-all, we know we were wrong, please don’t be mad at us, we’ll do better next time, and every time, please forgive us!!!!!!!! You can still teach men in the States to be violent cock juggling douche canoes, does that help, look I scrubbed the toilet I’M SO SORRY *creys*!”
There’s only one possible way this can end.
Anita Sarkeesian must denounce Anita Sarkeesian. Then we see if GamerGate will endorse Anita Sarkeesian for denouncing Anita Sarkeesian.
Katz: considering GlitterGoat’s lack of intelligence, it just might work.
“There’s only one possible way this can end.
Anita Sarkeesian must denounce Anita Sarkeesian. Then we see if GamerGate will endorse Anita Sarkeesian for denouncing Anita Sarkeesian.”
Why that’s…BRILLIANT! *bows in deference*
I found this on Etsy. Note the shop name: https://www.etsy.com/listing/208960073/male-tears-ironic-misandry-glass-bottle
pallygirl it’s so beautiful…
“Male tears are actually a mixture of aqua glow in the dark pigment, glitter, mica, and resin.”
I knew it!
@Molly Ren, “Let he who hasn’t got their own in-jokes and memes cast the first stone.”
This site does have its own in-jokes (which I don’t understand a great number of either), but at least the people on it use actual words! 😉
Off topic but have been following the story about Don Lemon of CNN victim blaming one of Bill Cosby’s victims during an interview?
http://jezebel.com/don-lemon-non-apologizes-for-thickheaded-rape-comments-1660782600
Davidknewton, did you ever get your Welcome Package?
It explains some of the jokes. 🙂
I went to that etsy expecting something funny, but… FORTY DOLLARS? For three bottles of glitter and some store-bought findings?? (I really hope the price is part of the joke…)
On topic: I eagerly await the day when Gators gain the tiniest glimmer of self-knowledge and collectively collapse in despair. The howling and gnashing of teeth will be audible from here to Australia.
Come sit by me. When I saw that for the first time, I felt like reaching through my laptop monitor and grabbing the d-bag by his deep V shirt (Jeebus H. Christ, why do they all wear those?) and yell, “Dude, you’re not Adolf Fucking Hitler. You’re just a shit who needs to shave and grow the fuck up!”
“Vidya” might be a reference to Hank Hill from King of the Hill who would slur “video game” into “vidyagame”, usually while ranting about how bad they are for his son.
Mr. Blanc thinks he’s da most hated man in da world. Prof. Dawkins thinks he’s being muzzled because people are free to criticise him.
What a bunch of delicate flowers.
this says it best:
Hold on to the end for proof of evil feminist SJW conspiricy in action. His autotune rebuttal of C.H.Sommers got posted here a while back and he has some great GG vids up there; my personal fave is this though:
ETHICS!
Whoops wrong links:
ARG so sorry! can i get a mod to delete those….
Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
I mean, I can grab one of those tiny tubes of glitter, some tape and yarn and ta-da! DIY male tears!
Oooh, or better yet, food sprinkles, that you can eat!
GamerGaters clearly don’t care about gamers being harassed, as long as SJWers are being harassed more.
“I get one aspect of what they were trying to do… they were trying to show Barbie as inexperienced in the field, to act as an avatar of girls who aren’t experienced with computers but would like to be.”
They could easily have shown that in a non-sexist way be having Fatima and Eve help her in techn instead of Brian and Steve. Not to mention all the other pro-women messages depicting women helping women would have given. But as always, Barbie is the special snowflake, the lone female intruder in a naturally male industry.