So one Reddit GamerGater recently took offense when a commenter in the Kotaku in Action subreddit said something that maybe, possibly, just a teensy bit suggested that Gaters weren’t a fighting force as tightly disciplined as the Marines.
Ha!
You want organized? I’ll show you organized. Here is actual video footage of a worldwide conspiracy against humankind. I don’t know how they do it, but I’m telling you, THESE CATS ARE COORDINATING THEIR ATTACKS.
H/T — r/BestOfOutrageCulture and the thoughtful reader who linked me to them
@yutolia: That was something I was thinking about myself. How can they have an “organized” group, when they’ve got no structure? There’s no leaders (depending on who you ask), no game-plan, and any time anyone does anything that could be considered “bad”, they get thrown under the bus. That’s not fucking organized, that’s chaos.
Thank (insert spiritual being here, or not) that carts don’t have opposeable thumbs. If cats had opposeable thumbs, they’d seriously fuck all our shit up.
Not that carts need opposeable thumbs. and not cats either.
The vivid imagination of GamerGators will never cease to amaze me. I love how they think of themselves as the only competent ones in the whole universe or that the ability to succeed at video games suddenly grants them all sorts of new skills.
I get the impression that some of them *literally* think they live in video game.
Ha, if video games really prepared you for real life those of us of a certain age would have been running around dark rooms, swallowing pills and listening to repetitive music.
@The Knitting Cinephile:
I used to own a button that said “Imagine the utter destruction if cats got PMS.”
It allowed me to tell non-cat owners from cat owners based on whether they responded with “???” or with abject terror.
What on earth is with you people and cats?! You’re bloody obsessed with the creatures!
@yutolia
They don’t really have an organized group in any normal sense of the word. They’re all part of the same “group” by virtue of meeting up at 8chan or reddit or some other board, there are many “groups” like this with overlapping members so that most of them know a certain percentage of the people involved in Gamergate but no one really has any clue how many of them there are total. From that start, they chat with each other and pass around ideas and instructions like a old-time game of telephone, and then proceed to be assholes to people individually or working with a couple other friends.
The only reason they have any effect at all with this structure is because a few hundred to a few thousand spend more time doing this per week than you would put into a full-time job.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qyfc7
I haven’t listened to the whole thing, but it’s a repeat of what we pretty much know – video games and pornography done to excess rewires your brain.
Ooh. We haven’t had a troll get mad at our cat talk in awhile!
The message that I got was, “We can be harassing assholes while also pretending to be completely innocent. We’re brilliant because we can have our cake and eat it too.”
@WWTH
They must have just discovered the internet.
http://i.giphy.com/13HBDT4QSTpveU.gif
Welcome to the internet, maleredfem! Don’t google goatse!
@Maleredfem: Whelp, time to bust out the cat shaming pictures again!
http://www.petshaming.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pet-cat-shaming-eat-fish.jpg
Was that addressed to me? If so, then I’m sorry that you thought I was trolling. I also wasn’t getting mad, just noting the obsession that you folks clearly have with cats, more in amusement than annoyance. I apologise for coming across as an angry troll; my comment wasn’t intended to be hostile as you perceived it to be.
What’s wrong with cats?
Man does that rant/response read like the most pathetic copypasta I have ever seen.
Nothing. What is about them that makes you people have them constantly on the brain? Genuine question.
@maleredfem
It’s funny because you ask why we’re “obsessed” with cats…on a website. On the internet. The internet.
That’s like asking an editor why they’re obsessed with grammar.
If you’re on the internet, you are obsessed with cats. Even you. That’s why you have a folder dedicated to cat gifs on your desktop. You might not know where it came from, but it’s there.
It’ll always be there.
http://i.giphy.com/O3pphRDvniPRu.gif
Does anybody remember the game Jezzball? As a kid I spent a ridiculous amount of hours playing it. So if there’s ever a crisis situation where bowling balls that never slow down are bouncing around a room, I can totally trap them in little compartments. And save humanity, of course.
Cats are cute. They have a side benefit that they drive some MRAs to a frothing rage. For some reason they can’t handle it when someone takes a cat more seriously than they take the MRA. It doesn’t work with all of them, but you see why your OMG WHY CATS??? sets off some troll detectors.
I just. What.
I organized 40-man raids back in the early days. Wasn’t easy, except maybe when compared with real life issues, like you know, war. And stuff.
But I’m also a wimmin so I don’t count.
Well, I’m just about as far away from being an MRA as is conceivable, and I think that Mr Futrelle does a stirling job of exposing these folks for the misogynistic cranks and bigots that they are. I was merely expressing bafflement and amusement at your obsession with cats, but now I understand it. Thanks for enlightening me.
Maleradfem,
I clicked on your name because I was unsure if it was trolling and that brought me to a blog post about how feminists are mean to autistic people. So yeah, I was a bit suspicious. Especially since this is a gamergate post and they have a history of co opting ableism in order to try and silence feminists who are talking about autism.
But sorry if I misinterpreted things.
Do you have a cat?