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Originally posted by Vin
I'm a gamer...
What is Gamergate? Never heard of it.  Where have I been? o__o
...Vin |
Basically a bunch of neckbeards started attacking game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu and a journalist named Anita Sarkeesian, who were all asking for better representation of women in gaming. As we all know, women characters tend to be absolute **** thanks to writing and pandering to teenage boys. Well, the grown-children did not like this and started writing personal threats, then eventually started doxxing their websites, started stalking them and sending them physical threats to the point that they started needing bodyguards. There were forums dedicated to bringing these women and all fans of women in gaming. They threatened to rape, murder, and vilify these women as much as they could. There were even reported incidents of people threatening to do shootings at universities.
Basically, gaming is feeding misogynistic and anti-social bastards that don't react well when the evil women try to change the things that are bad. It got national coverage but none of the actual distributors of games commented - in fear of losing their audience of disgusting male rapists.
See here for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
