GamerGate

[Cathal Garvey]

 >    Targeting female indie developers is complete weaksauce.  And the
 > fact that this comprises the vast majority of #GamerGate's "activism"
 > proves the allegation that it's filled with whiny man-babies.

Not only man-babies, but principally man-babies.

 >> And note, that, it's not only gamers who support GamerGate, but
 >> also game developers, including females (see #NotYourShield).
 >
 >    You know what I *don't* care about?  People I don't know who
 > supposedly shagged other people I don't know.

Boom.

So, a 'movement' that claims to want "journalistic integrity", which 
absent press censorship means "self regulation", can't be bothered 
policing its own ranks to stop misogynistic slander and death-threats. 
How many "Gamergaters" spend time chasing others for doxxing, 
threatening and slandering women in technology? As many as actually take 
part in these acts? I doubt it, and I see no evidence of such 
self-policing at a meaningful scale.

I'm sure there are honest, decent people using the "Gamergate" flag to 
call for something-something, but the fact that they're using that flag 
after it's been so thoroughly dragged through the muck *by other 
gamergaters* shows that they are content to accept misogyny in exchange 
for trending status on Twitter, rather than forking what's become more 
of a *bowel* movement into something with a measure of the integrity 
they claim to demand of others.

As often, Chris Straub summed it up well (Warning: Allegory):
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/10/15/the-perfect-crime/


On 27/10/14 02:48, Griffin Boyce wrote:
> Dāvis Mosāns wrote:
>> Anyway GamerGate is really complex issue and it's not only
>> about journalism. My suggestion would be, look here
>
>    If gamergaters spent half as much time trying to fix systemic
> problems that they claim to care about as they do correcting
> "misconceptions" about gamergate, I *might* start to take them seriously.
>
>    Want to fix games journalism?  Why not start with the large
> corporations that bribe their way into getting good reviews at large
> publications that lead to millions of dollars in sales.  Target EA, who
> just this week went to court to defend against a class-action lawsuit
> filed by gamers.  While the court found in their favor, they *also*
> determined that the statements put out by EA were "puffery" and did not
> reflect reality.  How will this impact the industry going forward?  Does
> #GamerGate bother having an opinion on this?
>
>    Targeting female indie developers is complete weaksauce.  And the
> fact that this comprises the vast majority of #GamerGate's "activism"
> proves the allegation that it's filled with whiny man-babies.
>
>> And note, that, it's not only gamers who support GamerGate, but
>> also game developers, including females (see #NotYourShield).
>
>    You know what I *don't* care about?  People I don't know who
> supposedly shagged other people I don't know.  No one whose opinion
> matters cares about this hypothetical scandal.  It's all a
> pseudo-intellectual circlejerk.
>
>    You either care about journalistic ethics enough to target large
> corporations and key players, or you're just fucking around.  Seriously.
>   This is as true for you (yes, you personally) as it is for the #NSA
> #GCHQ crowd.
>
> ~Griffin
>
>