These are some actual Tweets posted yesterday by @FartToContinue, a fairly prominent #GamerGater.
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537391103100858368
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537402552892280832
https://twitter.com/FartToContinue/status/537396025284395009
A few minutes with Google image search reveals that two of the images are photoshopped versions of photos documenting or depicting racial segregation in the Jim Crow era in the United States; one of the signs was originally directed at … hippies.
The originals:
H/T — @PixelGoth on Twitter
The bowl of noodles I am currently eating has more self-awareness than this person.
Doing this with all the Ferguson stuff happening? It’s like they can’t resist offending as many people as humanly possible.
Yeah, doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve seen the racial comparison used a in a lot of contexts to discuss the awful misandrist stereotypes feminists use against men :/
Today I am thankful for never having come into contact with an MRA
I’m okay with someone named Mr. fart using a separate bathroom.
…I want to say I’m surprised, I really do, but considering stuff they’ve said/done before I’m not really. :/
Countdown to someone pointing out that their pathetic, immature, disgusting and failure-drenched movement is designed in such a way that anyone can claim to be a member, and therefore these do not represent the ‘true GamerGate’ begins… now.
Are any Gomers swinging like Strange Fruit from a poplar tree? Is the scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, broken up all of a sudden by that of burning Gomer flesh?
No?
Well, then.
@kamrynwhowanders “Today I am thankful for never having come into contact with an MRA”
There really aren’t that many. Being a Misogynist is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being an MRA.
Aaaaand Mr. @FartToContinue needs to step on many, many Legos.
It always amusese that these folks cause “SJWs” of “manufacturing victimhood” when they’re the ones comparing mild criticism of sexism in video games to Jim Crow laws and actual, real, harmful discrimination faced by POC.
Wait, “amuses” isn’t quite the right word. Is there a word that means both “amused” and “disgusted” at the same time?
Doesn’t surprise me that FarttoContinue is a GGer. He’s had quite the history of being an asshole.
http://www.reddit.com/r/PolarisNetwork/comments/2at2rr/pressfarttocontinue_is_not_innocent/
Your privilege is showing, White, male, middle class Gamerghazians.
So… What are “SJWs” who are also gamers supposed to do? Split down the middle like amoebas?
Because nothing says emotional maturity than a nom like FarttoContinue
Not enough face palms in the world for this.
One big difference between the struggles of Gamergaters and the struggles of African American during Jim Crow era: For African Americans, those signs actually EXISTED and were enforced.
Also, nice to know MRA’s still haven’t found anybody with graphic design skills. Typography FAIL!
Thanks Optifix for bringing up Fart’s past history with Dodger. I’ve heard about it (and I sided with her on the issue even after reading his “defense” that he patched together on his website), but Fart just likes to keep putting sub-basements in the barrel, it seems.
M. the Social Justice Ranger
I’ve been trying for months now, and nothing seems to be working. I do appear to have a second head though, so that’s pretty cool. We just had a lovely conversation about how we’d like to see more games that are about narrative of underrepresented groups that aren’t being told to cater to men’s sexual desires like Gone Home.
Amnesia
And let’s hope they never sully my career choice by actually finding one. *shudders*
A good typographer has a deft hand, an eagle’s eye for details and the ability to suss out nuance. It’s really not terribly surprising that the gaters and the MRAs are almost universally terrible at graphic design.
In mostly unrelated news: Jian Ghomeshi is arrested, charged with four counts of sexual assault, etc. Akin to PUAs, he apparently has a strong, built-in reality filter that he’s not aware of: the case file he sent to CBC that was supposed to prove that his partners were willing is now being used to hang him.
Self pity and aggrieved entitlement are a very, very toxic mixture. Fuck those guys.
Anyone who thinks that simply being a gamer is grounds for persecution or discrimination is living in a dream world. No one is getting fired because they admit they like playing Call of Duty.
Being an misogynist, narcissistic, self-centered asshole of a gamer? That… still isn’t actually grounds for firing per se, but it’s certainly a good reason for people of good conscience to cross the street when they see them coming.
I’m lost as to how the GGers parallel PoC. When the GGers go out to dinner, and need to use the restroom, how does anyone know they’re a GGer?
If they just keep their awful opinions to themselves…. ah, I see the reasoning.
Also where do go people who are not gamers but are not for social justice either?
It looks like they think all people belong to their little sad internet world.
And is that a kind of attempt at crying they’re discriminated against? Talk about self victimization. They choose to behave like sexist assholes and now they’re upset people call them sexist assholes (and that’s about all discrimination and hostility they get).
@Mewens busband and I were watching the various Gomeshi news reports today – very happy. I wouldn’t at all doubt that he believes these ‘encounters’ were consensual, as his definition of consent seems to be ‘was speaking to me’ or ‘came to my house’. Much like how the GooberGraters get their definitions of pretty much everything completely wrong.
@Sarah
They haven’t thought it through that much. If they did things like that, we wouldn’t be looking at an article like this.
@M. the Social Justice Ranger
It’s pretty obvious those of us who fit that description aren’t “gamers” to them. Only GG is gamers. If any evidence to the contrary appears they throw half-assed, fallacious reasoning at it until they feel better.
Of course most gamers I know have one of three reactions to GG:
A.) That’s terrible.
B.) I don’t give a rat’s ass
C.) Gamer-what? Huh?
But that doesn’t fit the GG narrative of them being a mighty army fighting a glorious battle for all the poor, oppressed white male gamers.
If potentially anybody can be a member of this leaderless, faceless movement, then aren’t discriminatory signs meaningless? In theory, anybody could end up in the Jim Crow bathroom.
Except women and minorities, of course, who are not allowed to mingle with GGers in their segregated bathroom. But remember, GGers are the ones being discriminated against.