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

looks to be like 3 reasons

yeah i made it through the first three reasons

"because of feminism, people believe me when i speak" cool but probably not true
"boys treat me well online" i thought you weren't into white knighting or w/e
"because i'm a girl people won't think i'm a loser shut-in" also probably not true

for the girls in that video, actually #gg is about taking aim at who they think were the popular kids, or at least more popular than them. the resentment is palpable, as is an absolute absence of empathy for anyone but themselves.

...nerds...

these are children. children

https://twitter.com/Kingofpol/status/540203204777353216

yup literal children

TheKentuckian ‏@Warwick7th Dec 3

@jeh704 @Kingofpol trouble with Fox is, if it isn't political and easily framed, they will run over you. GG isn't easily framed anymore.

lol

if only there was some one line summary of what GG was actually about

THE GULL

https://twitter.com/danthat/status/544471298379096064

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B45Zk3OCYAAL-LZ.jpg

lol

the cover's pretty good too:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B45VHUOCUAA-Mwv.jpg:large

https://medium.com/@turnoffthenews/the-brief-and-silly-history-of-metalgate-30e2a9b8c9c8 lol

Have seen a couple of Total Biscuit's videos, he comes across as one of those people who has un/consciously developed a Jeremy Clarkson-esque conversational spiel/patter that suggests banter of some kind is occuring, but in fact cloaks only dull commentary on games of Starcraft 2, and sounds like the sort of person you would least want to be cornered into conversation with at the office christmas party.

He won Pope Dewrito's Gamer of the Year Award.

he probably also makes 6 figures being a bloviating video game vlogger on youtube

why is the pope giving gamers awards

it's the mass effect

^ ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooffffffffffffffffff nice

https://twitter.com/MuckRock/status/544928755991330816

duhhhh

https://twitter.com/Chriss_m/status/544539950730190852

dude

actually it's about me

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/544451050712080384

watch out best seller lists

xps what's the fbi thing about?

one of them made a FOIA request about something, not sure what

when being told you're dense is chalked up as a victory:

https://twitter.com/TinyPixelBlock/status/544977157013770242

these guys just can't stop with the civil rights comparisons

http://www.rllmukforum.com/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-9022-0-54102900-1418811139.png

hardly the main point of criticism, but that guy doesn't know what "shibboleth" means

he seems confused over 'clash' too

free speech, truth, sacrifice, etc

Actually, it's about a lack of standards in publicly funded education.

i'll just put this here, because the list of RTs/favs is half conservative creeps, half GG creeps (if the venn diagram isn't just a circle atp). i wasn't even looking for GG shit, but there those same names are, always...

massive trigger warning

https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/545063470388219904

i look at a lot of trash daily but i haven't wanted to see a man injured in a looong time...

at least it made me aware of this terrible Heisenberg bot that just goes into random conversations and tweets "I AM THE DANGER" or alternatively, "YO SOY EL PELIGRO"

what a garbage excuse for a human being

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/12/17/hatred-lands-back-on-stream-greenlight-fans-request-sjw-victim-npcs/

the levels of political confusion in this tweet

https://twitter.com/bio_nils/status/511819995677224960

https://medium.com/@turnoffthenews/the-brief-and-silly-history-of-metalgate-30e2a9b8c9c8

Seems to have crept over into the world of heavy metal now.

we're this much closer to ILM as the new journolist let's start pushing #Raggettgate

don't even

i guess jimmy wales just told these guys to eat a dick

not in so many words

#Raggettgate

I cannot imagine a more diametrically opposed hashtag!

Let's make it happen!

"It's about ethics in music journalism #Raggettgate"

ethics in tie colours iirc

heh.

Lol

this thing just keeps rolling along

the lawyer/pua dude debated chris kluwe on the internet. no way in hell i'm watching it, but my sense is kluwe won because the man himself said he lost on purpose. strategy. http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2qri1j/kluwe_vs_cernovitch_is_live/cn90zsy

and i guess the disabled guy who run the 8c website just posted an article at a nazi website about how eugenics is good. but i'm not going to go look for that.

that's what's up right now with this movement.

I think a pro-eugenics disabled dude sums up GamerGate better than any explanation I could possibly come up with.

So, this happened:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/01/prank_call_sends_several_polic.html

About 5 miles S/SW of where I live in Portland. 8chan sent cops to a woman's address to strike back at her.

But guess what:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/01/gamergate_woman_says_online_ha.htm

turns out the woman was a transgender former participant in gamergate who turned when Milo Y started posting on how much t/g squicked him out, too. She had moved to California and 8channers used her old Oregon address.

Hadn't seen this, love it
http://i.imgur.com/AUYbS65.png