Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

Mary @SlushStuff · Aug 15

I can't stand the Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG as a football team, but I'll defend their right to use their name until the day I die.

lmao

slushstuff is a pretty rabid antisemite based on google searching, even found her cited on st*rmfr*nt

The Telltale Blart ‏@Bro_Pair 7h7 hours ago
"I'm starting a movement against unethical journalism" "Oh goody, where are you starting? Wall Street? The Middle East?" "Luigi's Mansion"

if that matt forney "nick denton's private troll army" doofus seems familiar, well:

Into the Sewer: the American right wing, 2011

http://www.newsweek.com/gamergate-about-media-ethics-or-harassing-women-harassment-data-show-279736

Twitter users have tweeted at Quinn using the #GamerGate hashtag 10,400 times since September 1. Grayson has received 732 tweets with the same hashtag during the same period. If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?

(Grayson, you may have forgotten, is the writer who didn't actually write anything about Depression Quest, on whom Zoe Quinn has been charged with using feminine wiles, &c.)

http://actuallyethics.tumblr.com/

tried to explain this whole gg thing in brief to an irl friend today who had the perfect response... "so like why are videogame ethics more important than regular ethics???"

because i will try you in an animal crossing court of law

well a raccoon in short pants will try you, anyway

Chief Justice Resetti with the majority opinion

lol choose between a lecture or a longer angrier lecture

tried to explain this whole gg thing in brief to an irl friend today who had the perfect response... "so like why are videogame ethics more important than regular ethics???"

OMG thats perfect. Also:
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/142/921/PheonixPony.png

is there some kind of #GG/brony crossover I haven't heard about?

One of those Venn diagrams that's just a circle.

yeah no I was just thinking of all this OBJECTION!!! to "misuse" of gg and I GISed it and that came up and lol.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/a7e26270a7b3f67176db0b40d5e13c5b/tumblr_ndy1bxu9Rd1u24g68o1_1280.jpg

some of these aren't quite catching the rhythm

http://38.media.tumblr.com/2c4f9b1d7640b2c47257969288edc850/tumblr_ndy8nzrV1Q1u24g68o1_1280.jpg

i

https://twitter.com/sam_kriss/status/526707421616820224

yet more precious deflection, this time of overt antisemitism, from the heroically ignorant gg true scotsmen who arose as the phoenix from the ashes of doxx threads on fucking 4chan, one of the greatest safe havens for that bullshit on the internet.

i am glad they continue to attract only the best in hangers-on from the internet's right wing. at least this way, whatever "gains" they think they're making will continue to be praised by all the wrong people

It Takes Two To Sexism.

Yeah I'm trying to wrap my head around that

he's taking the piss

It takes two to harass. One to harass and one to be harassed.

(after Simpson)

It Takes Two To Sexism Go Right
It Takes Two To Sexism Out Of Sight

yes

What Neil said

Sam Kriss @sam_kriss · 2h 2 hours ago
ahahaha i'm getting unironic rts from gamergate for posting one of their stupid bios

Yeah I think he's joking

Sam Kriss @sam_kriss · 1h 1 hour ago
Passionate About Pixels. Frontline #GamerGate Soldier. I Googled Bell Hooks Once So Don't You DARE Try To Tell Me What Sexism Is.

hahaha

Mike Cernovich ‏@PlayDangerously 14h14 hours ago
An anonymous tipster in PR informed me Gawker is engaging in astroturfing. Many of the loudest anti-#GamerGate proponents are on payroll.

the rabbit hole goes even deeper than I imagined

Deepthroat to Cernovich's Woodward & Bernstein

So weird that the right wing response these days is the classic Pee Wee Herman "I know you are but what am I?" defense

Many people who disagree with GamerGate work for a company. Indeed, there is troubling evidence that suggests huge swaths of those who disagree with GamerGate work for one or more companies. I can't disclose my sources lest they be overtaken by the firestorm this post will produce. But worry not, dear reader, I'll keep reporting until they silence me.

Let's send investigators to San Juan and Ponce, smoke this tipster out once and for all.

expressed as a percentage how likely is it that the tipster is a. playing a prank b. fictional

'i'm fighting for ethics in journalism! that's why i'm posting unsourced bullshit on twitter!'

To all appearances, snl did not in fact do a gamergate sketch this weekend.

clearly the threats of #gamergate reprisals cowed them into submission

A PR guy told me that ALL of the SNL skits were really about gamergate

that's how the liberal media works

A PR guy told me that ALL of the SNL skits were really about gamergate

actually the skits were about ethics in gaming journalism

^ the moment the joke died

smh

in the end, i'd like to by sympathetic to gg WAIT WAIT HEAR ME OUT i'm sure the "gaming press" is "corrupt" (no shots to anyone present) in that, to my eyes, it has the same relationship to the games industry that fashion mags to the clothing industry or car mags to the auto industry. there's a thin slice of good writing and history and industry investigation and a huge block of heycheckitout PR

but you look at this thing, over the past several weeks, what they've done, their language, and it's like heeey why does your internet crusade seem to pick up the internet's worst people? why did it, in plain blank fact, start with them?

i mean:

https://twitter.com/tinybaby/status/526771179861073920

who are the people who led the charge against anita sarkeesian before this gg bullshit had a name?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdIHK8O5yo

warning: anglo cheeky affect, gross shit. kinda funny tho

xp

yeah but their crusade is not about that type of actual industry capture at all, it's about uncovering the "vast SJW conspiracy"

yes exactly

have we done davis aurini's men's rights / martial arts short movie itt yet? it's incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSGc2ylZe4