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originally posted by: amazing
If you're talking about gamergate. (I refuse to say hashtag, because that's retarded.) Those gamergate idiots are waging a war on women, threatening rape and doxing them and threatening to kill them just because they don't like their point of view. Anyone associated with gamergate should be ashamed of themselves. misogynistic woman haters who whine about everything have no place in a modern society. I've been hurt by women too, I didn't cry about it all over the Internet! I processed it and moved on with my life. That's what grownups do.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: amazing
Yes, and no. There is also pretty good evidence that the other side of gamer gate is an incestuous collusion of gaming media and devlopers and others to help paint all gamers as mouthbreathing misogynists who hate women, too. There are some, but not as many as the gaming media would have you believe.
And there are certain people who want games remade in their image, so to speak, because you obviously can't have a muscle-bound manly man protagonist because that's so obviously anti-woman and the like. So what if some games have the muscle bound man? Men aren't allowed to be that fantasy anywhere in society, so we can't let them have that in video games, either? Now the feminists have to follow them there and bag on them for having muscle bound men in their games and pretty girls to save?
So the message is that men should be ashamed for ... being men?
That is part of the problem I have with gamer gate feminists and I am a woman. We should stop trying to scrub all aspects of masculinity our of our culture as bad.
originally posted by: amazing
If you're talking about gamergate. (I refuse to say hashtag, because that's retarded.) Those gamergate idiots are waging a war on women, threatening rape and doxing them and threatening to kill them just because they don't like their point of view. Anyone associated with gamergate should be ashamed of themselves. misogynistic woman haters who whine about everything have no place in a modern society. I've been hurt by women too, I didn't cry about it all over the Internet! I processed it and moved on with my life. That's what grownups do.
originally posted by: bates
originally posted by: amazing
If you're talking about gamergate. (I refuse to say hashtag, because that's retarded.) Those gamergate idiots are waging a war on women, threatening rape and doxing them and threatening to kill them just because they don't like their point of view. Anyone associated with gamergate should be ashamed of themselves. misogynistic woman haters who whine about everything have no place in a modern society. I've been hurt by women too, I didn't cry about it all over the Internet! I processed it and moved on with my life. That's what grownups do.
This is the type of nonsense I'm on about.
Mention computer games, geek stuff or something and people start calling you a rapist.
It's obscene.
It's just a vile way to attack the geek community.
originally posted by: amazing
Nope. Not you. I merely mentioned gamergate. Got problems with certain women, women with game reviewers or gaming companies. then take them up separately. Get as far away from the label-gamergate as you can. Then, you will have no more bullying problems.
How has geek/nerd bullying become so acceptable again?
originally posted by: rukia
a reply to: CagliostroTheGreat
People who hate on us geeks need to go to jelly skewl.