I'm late to the party so anyone feel free to correct and explain things. What I've heard about Gamergate is
-Zoe Quinn slept with various men who likely gave her favorable reviews, publicity, etc. She was called out for it and exposed, as well as the places those men worked for.
However, Felicia Day was recently doxxed by Gamergate guys for saying she was afraid of speaking about Gamergate. She joins other women who have been harassed and doxxed by Gamergate guys, like Brianna Wu and I can't remember the others. I think there was another one, but I'm not sure. This creates a huge disconnect to me because I don't see the connection between Day and Quinn? Now, I would assume that those of you here who support Gamergate would disavow this type of behavior, at least publicly. This brings up 2 possibilities. The first is that there are people in the Gamergate movement who have done these things with or without the approval of the movement as a whole. The other is that this is a targeted attempt by outside forces to disable the Gamergate movement by associating it with such reprehensible behavior.
Anita Sarkeesian is related, but also not, to Gamergate. I'm not a fan of her cherry-picked stuff or just the whole "Women in Refrigerators" concept as a whole. I do believe the argument has merit, but isn't as pervasive as they would have you believe. However, I noticed up above a few posts that her Tweet about school shooters all being men and boys was being "disproven" by a few incidents where the shooter was female. The numbers of school shooters are about 97% male, so I think that number speaks for itself. That more than qualifies as "it's always men and boys". I think this is a case where the messenger stains the message. If this were someone else saying this exact same thing, you likely wouldn't feel as strongly about it.
Anyhow, there's a lot there for you guys to respond to, so I'll just leave with a question I wonder about. This is serious, by the way, it's not meant to be snarky or anything. The Gamergate name has been so drug through the shit and mud that wouldn't it be better to distance yourselves from the name and choose a different one? It's not fair, but the truth is that you'll never be taken seriously because of the actions of those who have committed these horrible things in the name of Gamergate. Even if those aren't really Gamergate members, the damage has been done. This is like a company using a swastika in their logo now, and that's really saying something considering that the swastika was around for thousands of years before the Nazi's corrupted its meaning. Gamergate doesn't have that history to fall back on.
-Zoe Quinn slept with various men who likely gave her favorable reviews, publicity, etc. She was called out for it and exposed, as well as the places those men worked for.
However, Felicia Day was recently doxxed by Gamergate guys for saying she was afraid of speaking about Gamergate. She joins other women who have been harassed and doxxed by Gamergate guys, like Brianna Wu and I can't remember the others. I think there was another one, but I'm not sure. This creates a huge disconnect to me because I don't see the connection between Day and Quinn? Now, I would assume that those of you here who support Gamergate would disavow this type of behavior, at least publicly. This brings up 2 possibilities. The first is that there are people in the Gamergate movement who have done these things with or without the approval of the movement as a whole. The other is that this is a targeted attempt by outside forces to disable the Gamergate movement by associating it with such reprehensible behavior.
Anita Sarkeesian is related, but also not, to Gamergate. I'm not a fan of her cherry-picked stuff or just the whole "Women in Refrigerators" concept as a whole. I do believe the argument has merit, but isn't as pervasive as they would have you believe. However, I noticed up above a few posts that her Tweet about school shooters all being men and boys was being "disproven" by a few incidents where the shooter was female. The numbers of school shooters are about 97% male, so I think that number speaks for itself. That more than qualifies as "it's always men and boys". I think this is a case where the messenger stains the message. If this were someone else saying this exact same thing, you likely wouldn't feel as strongly about it.
Anyhow, there's a lot there for you guys to respond to, so I'll just leave with a question I wonder about. This is serious, by the way, it's not meant to be snarky or anything. The Gamergate name has been so drug through the shit and mud that wouldn't it be better to distance yourselves from the name and choose a different one? It's not fair, but the truth is that you'll never be taken seriously because of the actions of those who have committed these horrible things in the name of Gamergate. Even if those aren't really Gamergate members, the damage has been done. This is like a company using a swastika in their logo now, and that's really saying something considering that the swastika was around for thousands of years before the Nazi's corrupted its meaning. Gamergate doesn't have that history to fall back on.