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

I doubt very much if all but a handful of these fucknuts have ever bothered to do any of those things

There was even specifically a segment in one of her videos about gender stereotyping in Angry Birds.

(aside from inchoate anti-woman rage of course) the illiteracy and miseducation of GG is the thing that drives me up a fuckin wall most

“If you’re going to demonize the word [ gamer], then demonize ‘feminism’ too,” wrote one reader with the display name I’m a Gamer, “because it’s been hijacked by radicalists trying to subjugate men.”

"radicalists"?

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Friday, October 31, 2014 4:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A meme that I have seen often in MRA/Redpill/ROK/Gamergate/random other black hold internet comment threads is "I think feminism achieved some good once when it was just fighting for equal rights for women, but now the RADICAL feminists have ruined everything." It's very much parallel imo to people who claim to be for civil rights but you know that was a thing we already sorted out and now these angry blacks keep playing the race card.

*hole

i don't think i've read anything by any of these guys where they've used the word feminist w/o throwing radical in front of it, which is SOP form of dismissing the interest of the other

yeah I mean it's just a rhetorically defensive move "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the RADICAL feminists," but then everything remotely feminist gets termed "radical."

Yeah, especially given that ''this media artifact has worrisome gendered tropes'' has to be one of THE mildest feminist tendencies possible, it's like, just, gender studies 101 or high school advanced literature class stuff. If these clowns actually encountered a radical feminist I think their faces would melt off like Eaiders of the Lost Ark.

"Now I know what I am, I was worried because I thought I should be a feminist, but now I know I'm something better - an equalist"

Yall so otm.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/3b86c1b51534f366901fe0d781bf485a/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o1_500.jpg

http://33.media.tumblr.com/e9ab1eb780247783f38d8bf982b2f91c/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o2_500.jpg

http://38.media.tumblr.com/fdf8ae155e9e9f693b45b8127fa2f3d9/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o3_500.jpg

http://33.media.tumblr.com/63b8257b1fa698ead9eb22291d0c6167/tumblr_ndz8j9vznW1rjo8p2o4_500.jpg

A great follow-up from the writer of the first "Gamers are Dead" post.

And a good follow-on from that

Oh look, David Auerbach wrote an earlier dumb thing about all this too:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gamergate_explodes_gaming_journalists_declare_the_gamers_are_over_but_they.html

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/Authors/david_auerbach-authorbio.png

People who think they can 'engineer' solutions to everything are so unbearable

otm

dead ringer for milhouse imo

we were just fighting about that upthread!

you mean thrillho

Is he an endless fount on this topic? He's knocked at least two straight outta the park with his wisdom and penetrating insight

People who think they can 'engineer' solutions to everything are so unbearable

― 龜, Monday, November 3, 2014 9:50 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my man

kinda thought this shit was dying down but arthur chu's twitter mentions have been batshit sickening today

i never would want to get into that twitter cesspool, but i guess i applaud Chu and those others willing to fight the hordes, fighting normalization of that bullshit

Fuuuuuuuck these people. Wow.

I feel bad, but I stopped following Arthur Chu b/c I couldn't deal with all of it.

Paul Rust is the irl thrillho

checkmate sjws!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1k3fe5CUAAo7oW.jpg:large

um

Shill-fucks and cuck-fags unite.

Commence Operation I Am Rubber You Are Glue

plz let this happen

guys, a bunch of gamergaters think this image is a real facebook post from Nick Denton

https://twitter.com/Kingofpol/status/529546003436015617

nick denton relaxes at home:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/10/18/blofeld.jpg

my business endeavors

I found a way to, as they would put it, "Kill the Batman".

definitely faded out of the general consciousness/media in the last week

though these guys will never give it up, i feel like a violent act will result, they just gonna continue to spin wackier and wackier theories and go down their own weird rabbit hole :/

Is there anyone who is pro-GG who isn't super dumb or disturbed?

I think it was overtaken by #streetharassmentvideogate and now #dunhamgate

lagoon super otm in some post upthread where he called them mean ants

seems like as time passes it will become more and more about attacking the most fun target of the day

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2lam1q/progg_andrew_sullivan_will_be_live_on_colbert/

lmao

surprisingly reasonable responses there huh

KIA is the grown up face of gg, from all i've read

lol grown up

well compared to the chan boards and the chaos of Twitter at least it's somewhat civil.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/4/7157433/brianna-wu-death-threat-reward

might not be thinking through the implications but I would totally donate to a kickstarter that doles out cash rewards for tips leading to the arrest of people who make internet death threats

Operation Light Up (AKA take the fight to Tumblr) is... kind of interesting, but the line "Twitter's 140 character limit means that it's totally unfit for discussion or refuting enemy arguments. It's a toy and distraction while the real conversation should be happening elsewhere, like the comments on news articles and youtube videos" is a vision into a screaming abyss.

did a Twitter search for "nick denton" earlier, im dead now

amazingly and horrifyingly, this is not satire:

http://i.imgur.com/BcrrRS3.jpg

gamergate - pushing you closer to madness, one image macro at a time

i am now in the camp that would happily give up video games forever if it meant i could take them away from these irredeemable wastes