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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPdDc5GVEAAlBGj.jpg

I occasionally check in with Feminist Frequency on YouTube. They're good videos and informative. Pretty much immediately afterward, my YouTube recommendations fill up with Sargon of Akkad.

youtube social commentators are, by and large, the worst

what the fuck is that cartoon

"and ralph"

that cartoon is fantastic

It's ironic, right? I can't tell anymore.

Needs an Osama thumbs-up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQk6woIUkAAmtz1.png

at last

It's been a month on the Steam forums and good god I'm taken aback by the sheer percentage gamers who post in forums that are idiot jerks. Never been a member of a gaming-centric forum before and yeeeesh it is ugly out there.

it's such a pain that these kind of places are often the only resources available for info regarding a game you are playing or are interested in. were it any other way, they could be easily avoided

sad to admit it, but gaming forums seem to always draw these sorts of fellows

Lately it's like looking up a wikipedia entry on World War II crowsourced by racist 15 year olds.

feels like gator-overflow (also: ew) : http://www.itworld.com/article/2989588/linux/linux-is-sarah-sharp-a-social-justice-warrior.html

this ran yesterday. good article, kind of dumb headline:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/07/why-social-justice-warrior-a-gamergate-insult-is-now-a-dictionary-entry/

"social justice warrior" was around forever before gamergate

that's what the article spells out yeah

Beware the skeleton menace!

Oh hey, a paper on GG: http://m.nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/07/1461444815608807.abstract

what a load of shit

http://observer.com/2015/10/blame-gamergates-bad-rep-on-smears-and-shoddy-journalism/

Blame Bad GamerGate Article on Shoddy Journalism

I thought to myself, I wonder how quickly this goes off the rails?

Unless you count ISIS, it’s hard to think of a recent movement with a worse image than GamerGate.

NOPE *hits back on browser navigation bar*

Responses to the “Zoe post” certainly included some vile misogynist comments, particularly on 4chan, a board with anonymous posting and a notoriously anything-goes atmosphere. Yet mostly, the hostility to Ms. Quinn was not based on gender but on the perception that she was a darling of the elites showered with undeserved praise.

"yet mostly" ah yes

Feminist gaming critic Katherine Cross sees Vivian as the gamers’ ideal woman, not only “apolitical” but with no mind of her own and pliable to male fantasy. Yet, as it happens, one of Twitter’s most active and outspoken “gaters” is a young woman who dresses as Vivian James for GamerGate events and goes by “Cult of Vivian” (real first name, Nicole).

wow pathetic

Except for the bigots and far-right loons who hang out on the movement’s fringes, what they oppose is not equal treatment for women, gays, transgender people, or minorities, but the politicization and policing of culture.

that's a good one

A Boston Magazine story even discussed a bizarre video rant against Wu as an example of GamerGate harassment—nearly two months after BuzzFeed reported that it was the work of a trolling comedian out to mock and spoof GamerGate.

this comedian is a far-right paranoid whose outlook lines up 1:1 w/ gg

a literal strawwoman xxp

Not the actual Observer though, just a New York thing.

https://twitter.com/Nero/status/654247992480788480

Sounds good!

TAKING ALL BETS

gamergater does intersectionality, at last

christ, look at this fucking shitlord

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/653144919486279680/c5Yx0VCR.jpg

ahaha

https://twitter.com/Olivier_LeClair/status/656319493514371072

How old is that kid?

Trudeau or "goodkingcole"?

goodkingcole - he looks very young. I find it hard to imagine the sort of kid that bothers with this stuff.

good for Trudeau

http://i.imgur.com/UjjaCdT.png

how you gonna slay the feminists with a three inch blade

Funny how often reason and logic are praised by people with a tenuous and warped grasp on reality.

@TheLonelyMaverick would doubtless be a more accurate twitter handle

forks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaGpn6_qjPA

milo's knife

https://twitter.com/theshrillest/status/655939206015946752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

you know who *else* can't make a sandwich

wow at that sandwich pic

The replies are gold on that one.

i think anyone who can't see through milo is about as stupid as they come and deserves everything they get. he's like a villain from a shitty 80s japanimation series.

among the mess of not-funny details in this sxsw panel mess is this one very funny detail:

https://twitter.com/TodayinTabs/status/659103790482759680

more about this group, and its

https://twitter.com/2dAmMuslim/status/658977842533945344

MANIFESTO