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Every time you think they can’t go any lower, they go lower. This morning game designer and #GamerGate target Zoe Quinn discovered that someone was selling, er, “erotic fiction” about her on Amazon. Which is to say: a Kindle eBook apparently filled with explicit descriptions of her being gang-raped by five “upset” gamers trying to “teach her a lesson.”
Here’s the author’s blurb for the book:
Zada Quinby is a controversial video game designer who may have stepped the line…
When her latest game offends the nation, five upset players decide to teach her a lesson. This gang of gamers decides to give Zada of piece of their mind, and much more!
Things are about to get incredibly rough when these five men unleash their pent up anger on poor Zada. It’s an experience that she’ll never forget.
As Quinn, a rape survivor, put it:
having your trauma be fetishized and sold to people who wish they could revictimize you is not an occupational hazard I signed up for.
— zoë “Baddie Proctor” quinn (@UnburntWitch) December 19, 2014
Apparently I was a character in the “book” as well.
I say apparently because I haven’t read it. Few people have. In the one silver lining to all this: Amazon took it down shortly after a reporter for Raw Story called them to ask about it. But you can see an archived version of the page here.
Unfortunately, not everyone on Twitter thought the book was a bad thing. Here’s how one terrible person responded when #GamerGate opponent Ian Miles Cheong posted about the book being on Amazon.
.@stillgray @PixieJenni Hahaha, that's brilliant xD Sad, but brilliant.
— MilesVork (@MilesVork) December 19, 2014
@MilesVork has complained that this tweet was taken out of context, but that is the entirety of the exchange, and he has since refused to apologize for it. He also, for what it’s worth, claims not to be a #GamerGater, though if you scroll back through his tweets you will see a number of nasty attacks on another of #GamerGate’s main targets, whom he describes as an “absolute cumbucket” and “a bigger bucket of crazy than all the stupidity in GG combined.”
When @PixieJenni posted a screenshot of the above exchange on Twitter, this conversation ensued. Some highlights:
I think it’s safe to say that @DieHardDante is a #GamerGater, if his dozens if not hundreds of Tweets on the subject are any indication. He also seems to think anti-Semitic cartoons are hilarious.
There is no bottom to this barrel.
H/T — r/GamerGhazi for some of the links above; thanks as well to those who alerted me to this on Twitter
Wait, this is the wrong post. Sorry! >_<
Ethics. It’s now fully clear that they don’t have any (like they had any to begin with).
I have no words, actually. Just… too stunned and disgusted for words.
Funny, but isn’t that the reason they went all rapey-doxxy-punishy in the first place? Because she “fooled around with five guys” and “cuckolded” her poor widdle asshole beta boyfriend?
No, “Valeria O”, you’re not at ALL transparent!
Just when I think Vox Day is the worst infected pustule on the arse of humanity, somebody proves me wrong.
Hey rape apologist #gators:
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131216162021/epicrapbattlesofhistory/images/b/bf/Mr-rodgers-middle-finger-mister-rogers-flips-bird.jpg
In the context of erotic fiction published electronically through amazon, as I understand it it’s mostly a necessity of the genre because Amazon won’t publish “erotic” fiction about rape, so this kind of thing is done to get around that restriction.
Also, I’m no fan of the “flip the script” gimmick. It’s lazy and annoying as hell.
And now, some brain bleach:
This kangaroo is doing to a drone what I’d love to do to the person who wrote that dreck.
The whining about the “gamers are dead” articles is made even stupider considering that the video games board on 4chan has always had a hatred for the Mountain dew+Doritos only plays Call of Duty dudebro gamer, the EXACT SAME PEOPLE that the article they clearly didn’t read says shouldn’t be considered as the primary market.
I think Bina’s kangaroo just won the thread!
They go on about how it’s not about harassment, it’s not about Zoe Quinn or Sarkeesian-then we get this! GooberGobblers are the most disingenuous pieces of shit in the galaxy!
I think Vox read your post and is taking it as a challenge.
I want all our kangaroos to destroy all the goddamn drones. Then they can move on to the RapeGamers.
ya know, dogs hump as dominance behaviour, too. The difference is that dogs are smart enough to be trained out of it.
An actual game-related bit of brain bleach. I’ve no idea what the real thing is, but I’d play this version! 😛
http://41.media.tumblr.com/dfa6e5a0dcfcfb8f6366915f80b356e8/tumblr_nfjf4algCu1spaqpio1_500.jpg
@kittehserf:
I’ve heard good things about Dragon Age: Inquisition. I’ve only played Origins, and it was alright. It’s kind of like Skyrim meets The Sims in terms of combat, and the story line’s not bad.
For Origins, you get recruited into a group called the Grey Wardens, who are specialized warriors that fight during something called the Blight (evil taint takes over a dragon, the dragon calls forth an army of blighted warriors, and all the races have to band together to fight it every so often. The Wardens are the front line.), well, you’re fighting the blight when one of the king’s men betrays him and lets the king (his son-in-law), and your mentor die right after you get initiated. You then become the evil guy’s patsy, and you have to go and prove your innocence, while rallying troops using ancient treaties between The Wardens and the other races of Ostagar to stop the ever-growing blighted hoarde (But, of course, every place you go to to get allies needs your help with something before they’re willing to help you any). Lots of political intrigue and stuffs. Very fun.
I got a little hung up on the romances though. I told myself I was going to romance another character for my second play, and I picked a roguish elf named Zevran (who sounds a teeny bit like Antonio Banderas playing Puss in Boots), and I ended up getting confessed to by my first character’s love interest, and then a lovely female bard confessed to me as well, and I had to stop because I couldn’t take the glass box of emotions. : (
Fictional romance is hard.
Eeep!
Even if I were into games I’d never want to play something where I was caught up with regicides!
In other news, the YouTube channel MentalFloss released a video on 13 inventions that will help women in developing countries e.g. machines that make cheap maxi pads, medical instruments to help with childbirth, “water rollers” so the women don’t have to damage their spines carrying heavy containers, solar powered ovens so the women don’t have to breathe in wood smoke.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_zr_uUSAk
The comments section is packed with MRAs whining that the video and inventions are sexist and how dare we focus on fixing one genders specific problems when we should be focusing on fixing problems that affect “both sexes”! That’s true equality doncha know!
Oops, let me actually embed the video:
Yes, because anything that benefits women automatically makes things worse for men!
Well, unless you count women being less ground down by labour and able to live healthier and easier lives as harming men.
Oh wait …
Literally the only reason those inventions target women is because they make jobs that women do easier. Jobs that have benefits for the men in those women’s families.
They literally just snapped at the “for women,” didn’t they?
They sure do put the JERK in “knee-jerk”, those morons.
I can call them anything that I want but all of them would be insults to the words themselves I can’t think of anything other then ‘demon spawns’.
I’m sorry if I’m dehumanizing them or whatever I just can’t understand on how anyone can do or think like this.
I seriously can’t think of anything else because I’m so angry and sad. I feel extremely sorry for what Zoe and other women in gaming are going through and I just want to cry.
http://youtu.be/gQQD6nDVO5Y
http://youtu.be/WRVfHb0FSrA
http://youtu.be/GuNJzJngFeQ
Building better ovens? That’s terrible, that is. Shouldn’t be allowed. Please ignore the fact that the only reason this “doesn’t benefit men” is that the men in question are too damn lazy to cook.
And just tonight I saw a Menz Rightzer meme on Facebook: “MEN COOKING — Because women aren’t doing it anymore.”
Lazy fucking gits, it’s always women’s work, so when men do it, they deserve a fucking medal.
This calls for more brain bleach, in the form of communist carolling kitties.
sunnysombrera
That video is awesome
Oh, I left out a word…should read “MEN COOKING — Because ARE women aren’t doing it anymore.”
These gits are so lazy, they can’t even spell. But women should be castigated for allegedly failing to cook.