GamerGaters sure do love their Based Mom! Christina Hoff Sommers, as you may or may not know, is a libertarian think-tanker who’s been grinding away at feminism for two decades, while still, rather perversely, claiming to be feminist. Though not a video gamer herself, she’s jumped aboard the GamerGate train, and GamerGaters have repaid her interest in their little crusade with interest, anointing her their “Based Mom” and talking about her with weird reverence.
That is, when they’re not making creepy fan art about her. Today, five of the most disturbing examples I’ve found so far.
1) Virgin Based Mom, in which an old publicity shot of Sommers is pasted onto a picture of the Virgin Mary to very creepy effect.
2) Based Waifu, in which Sommers is reinvented as an anime character.
3) Mass Effect Mom, in which Sommers becomes a Space Marine.
4) Whatever the hell this is.
5) Perfect Mom. And last but certainly not least, this tweet. No image manipulation here, just a guy expressing his opinion about a women. His really, really creepy opinion.
https://twitter.com/ItalyGG/status/537271807326572544
BONUS: The world’s most annoying Christina Hoff Sommers animated gif. Sommers finishes her ironically titled “Factual Feminist” YouTube videos, which are neither factual nor feminist, with an annoyingly contrived tagline: “Check your facts, not your privilege.” Now you can watch her smugly repeat this phrase over and over without end. Which is, I think, the very definition of hell.
Warning: Excessive viewing of this gif may give you nightmares; its smugness is that powerful.
H/T — GamerGhazi, for pointing out the Virgin Mom
Most boys figure out that emulating the creepy d00d from the romcom stuff they watched on the teevee will get them an intervention by the time they are fourteen.
Srsly d00d.
Huh. Where I come from, we understand perfectly well that when “hunters” try “goofy shit”, someone usually ends up shooting self in foot.
Case in point, above.
I love how he assumes we just MUST hand over “creepy”. In the “spirit of equality”, of course. D00d, when we GET equality, then we can start talking about the spirit of it. I’m still waiting for the letter and material of equality. >taps foot<
Someone needs to make this *cough* admiral *cough* walk the plank. It might make him STFU.
@Admiral Awesome thank you. Slogging through your blurge finally made me drowsy enough to get myself to bed. Much appreciated.
Sweet dreams, Tracy!
This looks like a job for a pirate, kittehserf!
And when creepy dudes stop BEING creepy, then they can pry the word from my cold dead hands.
Also, “faclempt” isn’t a word. Don’t try to speak German unless you’ve learned German, d00d.
Also, if in theory women stopped using the word creepy then we’d just find another word to replace it, if the behavior persisted, and I don’t think our friend here is going to like “harassment”, or “stop that or I’ll file a restraining order” any more palatable.
grumpyoldnurse, it is!
Where’s that dashing captain when he’s needed?
grumpyoldnurse,
I clicked on his name. Oh my.
He looks a little worried, to me, kittehserf!
http://media.photobucket.com/user/laurielover1912/media/Hooked/piano2.png.html?filters%5Bterm%5D=jason%20isaacs%20captain%20hook&filters%5Bprimary%5D=images&sort=1&o=25
Or, maybe the admiral is making him sea sick?
Sorry, WWTH! I really, really, really meant that as a warning! I was curious, see, and wanted to spare any other silly cats the pain!
I’m one of those people who always wants to do what I’m told not to! It’s not like I was traumatized or anything, it just sounds like that porn is racist as hell.
You’re braver than me, then! I only got to the bit where I realised what the site was, and thought of my children using this computer and then felt queasy!
Oh I didn’t click on any of it. I was just judging from the titles.
I’m now glad that I missed whatever the rest of you are talking about. It’s pretty pictures day, man, I need a day off from the creepy misters.
By Bootsy and Maru both! May all your days be creepy mister free!
The Captain definitely looks nauseated there, grumpyoldnurse!
MRAs: making even villainous, murderous pirates sick to the stomach.
Gotta say, Maru isn’t very good at the whole hunting for treats thing, Hana hoovered most of them up while he was still sniffing around.
Did he literally link to a porn site?
Yep. Number one sign of a good-faith poster right there. TOP KEK BRO. Why not go all the way and post Goatse? *rolls eyes*
There’s always one who hasn’t seen goatse. If you are that one! Don’t google it, just trust me on this.
I am that one! Surprisingly, I am not tempted.
I did see this, though, and it made me laugh:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141210055604/https://twitter.com/GRIMACHU/status/542359430160187394
Gawd, that dude’s drunk the GG kool-aid by the gallon.
I have not seen goatse. Hearing about it was good enough for me.
They oppose politicization, so there. You absolutely cannot make this shit up.