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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 But you can see an archived version of the page here.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
Oh, yeah, and making birth control more accessible for women, especially the IUD variety, means the men don’t have to worry about if their partner was irresponsible and forgot to take her pill that day, and he won’t have to worry about having to support any unwanted babies, right?
And the light thing? The video specifically said that this problem affected men (in fact it affected the male who came up with the solution), but that is severely disproportionately affected women, which is why they included it in the “for women” listing. Yet, all the men in the same room will benefit! How is this misandrist?
Help save the lives of babies and young children by assisting with birth, or by assisting with the caretakers (mostly women) giving them their medications? Well, you know fully half of those babies are MALE!
Nutrition – Yes, the women are the ones doing the cooking, but I guarantee you that males are doing a whole lot of that eating.
Therefore, helping the women with their specific, direct problems really helps everyone, indirectly.
HOW IS THIS A BAD THING?
I can’t believe those comments. Why did I read the comments?
Snicker – “a more balanced person.”
Oh, and on the topic of butt-wiping, can I just say that I am tired of reading/hearing people saying really obnoxious stuff like “fat people can’t wipe their own butts.”
Ummmm, yeah, we really can the vast majority of the time. It is incredibly rare to be so fat that the fat, itself, is what prevents you from wiping your own butt.
Flexibility, on the other hand, can be a problem. Injuries can be a problem. These are both issues that can be problems for people of ALL sizes.
Someone who is fat is not necessarily going to be smelly or unhygienic, with dingleberries and fungus growing in their rolls of fat. Because, amazingly, fat people tend to wash themselves with the same frequency as thin people.
Granted, the rolls give more places for fungus/bacteria, etc to grow. But it is by no means a given that we’ll just leave it alone to become a breeding ground.
Also, I have recently learned that some people are simply more prone to bacterial infections, and guess what? Their skin is the same, regardless of weight. The sensitivity of the skin, and their immune system is not based on their size.
Yet, fat people get judged as being “too fat to wipe their own butts,” and “so fat that they grow *stuff* on their skin.”
Meanwhile, the (thin) MRA twit actually complains that he is *expected* to wipe his own butt, or deal with the smelly bacteria that tends to grow in underarms.
Not on topic, I know. Sorry, but I just had to say it.
Wow. I really got on the Fat Activist bandwagon tonight, didn’t I? Huh. I wonder what sparked that.
Sorry about that.
Well, off to bed. Goodnight, all.
As small children, we want what we want when we want it. As we mature, we learn that quite often things we want can be had only with a substantial amount of effort, and some can’t be had at all. When I hear Roosh complain about having to wipe his butt or misogynists complain about women not putting out for them, I hear the voice of a small child: “Why do I have to wipe my bottom, Mommy”, “I want that toy [woman] — I want it [her] right now”. It’s not being able to understand that just because you want something the world isn’t necessarily going to give it to you, particularly not right this instant. Talk about arrested development.
When they demand sex they sound like kids at the supermarket checkout throwing a tantrum because mom won’t let them have a mars bar. Not exactly libido-enhancing for the women on the receiving end, that.
That’s it, isn’t it – not only the arrested development tantrum-wise, but the whole inability (refusal, rather) to see the fucktoy they want as a living, breathing human being.
I wonder if they also feel entitled to and demand close friendships with other men and then yell slurs at them if they get acquaintance-zoned.
This has more truth than you think. In some developing countries while the wife is 100% in charge of childcare and housework the husband is 100% in charge of the money (even if some of that money has been earned by her, yes it’s that fucked up). It’s not uncommon for the men to buy alcohol and luxuries for themselves (including prostitutes, way to help with the AIDS crisis) while leaving little for their families to live on.
Actually, similar shit happened in 1930s Britain as well, it’s why Child Tax Credit was created and given only to mothers.
I don’t suppose the YouTube commenters will be placated if we go over there and clarify: “It’s okay dudes—you are totally free to go buy some economical, locally-made maxi pads from the entrepreneurs running those machines. You can even wear them if you want equality so much.”
The not wiping the butt thing also seems like an extra way they want to be able to degrade their sex partners. It’s all about defiling virgins and diminishing their SMV, and making sure that the sex is as nasty as possible for the girl. If Roosh is able to “persuade” (force) an HB10 to accept his penis despite it being located next door to a toxic sewage non-treatment plant, it means he’s super duper alpha. There’s a lot of erotica to that effect, where pure young girls are forced to perform sex acts on disgusting, filthy, smelly men.
But mainly he’s just a lazy douchehose who thinks hygiene is for chicks.
A douchehose sounds like exactly what Roosh needs.
Or a
firehose, garden hose, possibly.{I edited that ‘cos of nasty non-creep association I just thought of after hitting post.}
Buttercup: Believing that the more you ‘defile’ a woman the more alpha you are is toxic masculinity at its worst. Seriously, nobody should be basing their self esteem on how much you can traumatise others. It’s sick.
Also a lot of hazmat suits and a secure lead-lined landfill.
Maybe he has a point – his personal hygiene actually IS harder than the average person’s, because he’s such a revolting biohazard. His beliefs literally ooze from his pores.
how much *they can traumatise others.
@sunnysombrera – yes, yes, and yes. It’s a deeply broken sexuality that’s not only actively harmful, it’s evil. Even the conservative Christian “family values” crowd looks down on them. Under the traditional gender relations contract, men are supposed to protect and provide for women, and these sorry excuses for men can’t even do that. They’re doing the exact opposite of protecting women, all the while whining about how oppressive their end of the bargain is.
Anybody who gets off on harming other people belongs behind bars, or in intensive therapy with close monitoring. Their right to their “sacred nut” < women's emotional and physical well-being.
Buttercup: true. But even in the darkest corners of Christian fundamentalism there are some who turn a blind eye to wife abuse and/or commit it themselves, while preaching about how hard it is for men because they have to take charge and be in control of everything. Misogynists’ “white mans burden”, basically.
Honeybunches, having a tyrannical stranglehold on your family is not a “divinely imparted responsibility”, it’s a choice you made out of your own corruption. Shut the fuck up.
Man I definitely want to write that novel about the female serial killer who preys on men now, if only to see GGers and their ilk shriek with rage about the awful misandry.
@sunnysombrera Isn’t it interesting how all these “divinely imparted” rules just happen to coincide exactly with asshole authoritarian men’s sexual desires?
Because the omnipotent creator and overseer of the cosmos is very, very, VERY concerned about boners.
Cyberwulf,
It’s not exactly a serial killer story, but there’s an Italian horror series called “Men Rapist.” I’ve only seen the first one so far, but it appears to be about a demon that’s controlled by a woman. The demon rapes men who are rapists. I’m actually surprised that the MRAs haven’t discovered it and whined about it yet. It’s got misandry galore! But they’re probably too lazy to read subtitles. So maybe it isn’t such a surprise.
Eurgh. All the more reason why these guys deserve never to get any sex at all. EVER.
I don’t trust a pastor whose idea of God’s will sounds very similar to his own.
Oops that was aimed at Buttercup.
Cyberwulf, there’s a movie where Christina Ricci plays a serial killer who exclusively targets sexist men. She even gets to live happily ever after (albeit with a man)! So misandry.
Cowards can actually be very dangerous, since they’ll always pick on someone weaker than themselves.
Almost all of GG’s targets are young women working in small indie fields: in other words, people who are unlikely to have the power, money, or connections to fight back. The older, more established women on their hit list have a history of being harassed by other Internet cesspools, so GGers know they can summon backup. A lot of their targets (including their most notable male target, Phil Fish) are known to suffer from depression or other mental illness. Quite a few are gay or trans.
They don’t go after the many celebrities who have criticized and mocked them. They don’t go after NFL players who cuss them out. They did dox Felicia Day, which I think was them getting bold enough to think they could terrorize any woman; once they realized it could get them in real trouble, they ran. And of course their concern for ethics in the gaming industry doesn’t extend to big companies; instead they focus on grinding Kickstarter-backed indie developers into dust.
Cowards can be very dangerous to the people they think they can get away with hurting.
“I don’t trust a pastor whose idea of God’s will sounds very similar to his own.”
Good luck finding a pastor you DO trust, then. Apparently it takes balls (pun intended) to believe that you know what god wants and it happens to be just exactly what you want. “God wants me to have the primary power” is a fairly transparent belief.