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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 But you can see an archived version of the page here.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
Bina
They want a medal for everything that they do including wiping their butts as what Roosh the Doosh said in his other post
Actually I think my favorite was the bit about being forced by this cruel misandrist world to trim his nose hair.
And put on deodorant! Oppressive misandry! A man’s boogers are SACRED!
So lets go down the list, hmm?
1) Solar light–“Man may work from sun to sun, but women’s work is never done”. This helps anybody who has to work in the dark, including male students. Women may be more affected, but that is because men didn’t have to work in the dark as much. DO NOT FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS.
2) Solar oven–yes, women are more likely to be cooking, but they are suffering from it to feed the men in their lives. MRAs wouldn’t complain about a technological leap in a male-dominated field, would they?
3) Gardens to prevent children’s malnutrition…. Do I really need to explain this?
4) Periods suck ass. Also, when women don’t have access to sanitary pads, they can’t work to support their family, and they are likely to develop fertility-harming infections. How is any of that good for anyone?
5) The birth device saves mothers and also babies–50% of whom are male. Also, most birth complications are more fatal for the babies than the mothers. Also, MEN GENERALLY DON’T LIKE SEEING THEIR WIVES DIE YOU SELF ABSORBED ASSHOLES.
6) This is to prevent women–who already have HIV–from passing it one to their children. Do not fucking complain about this, assholes.
7) Hollaback–allows women to document and hopefully avoid street harassment. Okay, this doesn’t really help men much, but it is awesome. Suck it up, assholes.
8) Anti-harassment and anti-sexism mobile game–this is awesome. I am glad I heard about this. Go step on a lego if you don’t like this.
9) Tools to prevent infections at childbirth. See number five. Keep seeing number five. See number five until it bleeds into your brain.
10) Water roller–both women and children use this, and women are only more effected than men because women got stuck with the shit work that doesn’t pay. Also more clean water = more good for everyone.
11) Malaria is equal-opportunity. DO I NEED TO FUCKING EXPLAIN THIS SHIT.
12/13) IUDs. If you don’t think women deserve birth control, swan dive into a lego pool. Also, when women have fewer children, they ones they have grow up healthier and better educated. INCLUDING THE BOYS, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.
So on my final count: 1 is 100% equal, 3 only affect women more because of pre-existing labor disparities, 2 mostly benefit children, 2 help in childbirth and will help loads and loads of newborn boys, 2 are about sexual health with roundabout benefits for men and children, and 2 directly address sexual harassment and discrimination.
And this is what you rage about?
If anything, MRAs should be pissed that inventions that primarily benefit children (the HIV-med one, malnutrition) are considered women’s business, but no.
Wasn’t there that meme that tried to illustrate how hard it was for dudes to look nice for dates, so they listed about ten different things that mostly fell under basic hygiene for the man, and listed something like “don’t be too overweight” for the woman? They’ve got a pretty warped sense of the general standards people and society have.
More communist Christmas Carols (from my hands-down favorite Christmas album to boot).
And if you feel like crying like a baby:
This. But other MRAs are whining that the video is sexist because by saying that the ovens will benefit women it’s suggesting that men don’t cook. Or that it’s sexist by failing to mention how the inventions will help men as well blah blah blah. Absolutely none of these toddlers have any knowledge of patriarchal culture in developing countries, or the fact that in the third world women do 100% of childcare, housework and most of the water fetching.
Nope, the conversation has to be about men always, else NO FAIR.
“And put on deodorant! Oppressive misandry!”
Well, you could argue that natural human smells like those of armpits are only offensive because we have been trained to think they are to benefit the cosmetics industry. But brushing teeth is clearly a necessity — recall the discussion about oral health issues we had a few days ago. And as to wiping one’s butt …. I suggest that someone send Roosh a box of corn cobs so he can learn an appreciation for toilet tissue.
Failing to properly wipe one’s butt can result in nasty infections, which may require surgical intervention if left untreated long enough. (please, God, let no one ask me how I know this)
Kirby: I don’t know bout the meme, but I know it was the theme of Rooshie’s tantrum about having to not look and smell like shit if he wants to get laid.
I’ve defintely been reading too much pirate stuff lately. I ‘heard’ that as “Because ARRRR women aren’t doing it anymore.”
@ grumpyoldnurse–I am just hoping it was in the context of your job.
Grumpy: I’m going to assume it’s because you’re a nurse and then leave it at that.
Yes, a professional horror rather than a personal one.
Because your’re a nurse and so you get to know everything that everyone else doesn’t want to know …
I was just thinking: if Roosh got a nasty infection in his rear, wouldn’t that make him a more balanced person?
::snicker::
He can’t wipe his butt because then he’d have to start washing his hair too. He’s just trying to maintain a consistent appearance.
Or a consistent malodor.
Between Roosh and the skidmarks YouTube rant guy I really have to wonder what the connection between misogyny and refusal to wipe your own ass properly is.
I’m pretty sure my dad would be put out if Mum started doing all the cooking.
Not to mention the connection between “Why should I have to wipe my arse?” and “Waaah those sluttyfrigidwhoreswon’tfuckme!”
@Cassandrakitty: Refusal to come to terms with reality? As in , there are some things you just gotta live with.
A belief that there should always be a woman to do things for you, maybe. Mum wipes your bum, your wife does your laundry…
You know what? Even if the men in these developing countries never cook, the solar oven still benefits them, because they, as a family, can save so darned much on fuel. That means that the man’s hard-earned money can go to other important things, like that Ferrari he needs for his mid-life crisis.
That’s right! Woman! Cook that meal with the solar power, so I can have my fine set of new wheels, and pick up some younger babe!
See? Even an MRA/PUA can totally get behind THAT benefit for men.