John, that was a beautiful email.
   I sincerely hope it is both the introduction and the coda to this
   intersection of cpunks and GamerGate. Let's just move on from here.
   On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:26 AM, John Young <[1]jya@pipeline.com>
   wrote:

     I had not followed GamerGate until today's New York Times
     article about it. Nor followed games, so the controversy is
     new to me. But not the issues involved, which are prevalent
     online and off. Particularly in testosterone-rich enterprises like
     military, spies, armaments, sports, weapons, ideology,
     religion, education, society, civilization, humanity, existence
     itself. In all of these, the stronger violently dominate the
     weaker and do so with the psychotic belief that this is
     the way it should be, natural.
     In war and peace, in human exploitation of animal and earthly
     domains, in climate degradation, in force-feeding "democracy,"
     in cruel treatment of women's bodies and neglect of children,
     in just about every aspect of torturous "advancements in
     civilized peoples" in the course of inventing and applying
     ever greater and more vicious ways to kill, maim, starve
     and over-populate earthlings by male rape in all guises
     of wargames.
     Games are a reflection of the this much greater conceit
     of male dominance in all institutions, all of them, even those
     which spout diversity and affirmative action and grant minimal
     access to privileged male sanctuaries -- no matter the skin
     color, ethnicity, faith, location on earth.
     It is argued that male aggression inherent and can at best
     be somewhat controlled by law and social compact. That is
     a comfortable apologia by male supremacists in law and
     social compacts dominated by them with intellectual and
     economic arrogance. All institutions measure accomplishment
     by male-derived standards to tip the balance in favor of those
     rigged games.
     GameGate is too limited in scope, so much that it should
     be seen as a male-dominated diversion, a game, to avoid
     addressing the origin and sustaining influence of male
     way of thinking, doing, making, competing, surviving, by
     lying, cheating, killing, ruling in all aspects of existence,
     simulated in games, trained for in games, monetized by
     games designers and producers, applauded and lauded
     in halls of power and control, in prizes and awards, in
     cemetaries and statues, in art and science, in accumulation
     concentration and monopolization of wealth.
     No game this larger world, this wargame of "ballsy"
     potentates in military, policy, spying, media, sports,
     taxation, playing obsessively the "law of men enforced
     by lawmen."
     At 12:10 PM 10/25/2014, you wrote:

     Hello
     John, what do you think about GamerGate?
     cheers,
     George.

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References

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