*chuckles* Damn PC police!
Gator: SJWs get offended way too easily.
Reviewer: This game gets 8.9/10.
Gator:
*chuckles* Damn PC police!
Gator: SJWs get offended way too easily.
Reviewer: This game gets 8.9/10.
Gator:
It goes further. They also use whatever minority within their movement as shields from criticism like the whole "my best friend is black" stuff. They're also harboring literal nazis in their movement as Storm Front supports GamerGate.
I can confirm this. I had to write a paper on Internet harassment for a course in my college. I went on some imageboard (16chan, I believe) to get some first-hand evidence. Right on the front page they were actually live-streaming a white, young, rotund man who killed his sister because she said she was interested in starting to learn programming. All the people on the chat were cheering on the guy and encouraging him.
I got so sick to my stomach after witnessing this that I dropped out of that course.
disagree.
it's more because gaming interests are correlated with being a geek/nerd which is correlated with struggling socially in adolescence and that leads to guys having a chip on their shoulder when it comes to women.
I don't think the sentiment of the remark was "look at what white people do because they're white". It was "oh they're all white, how predictable".
I'd say it's somewhere in between.
"GamerGate is the monster that the industry cultivated"
"GamerGate is the monster that the industry created" - False
"GamerGate is the monster that the industry sustained" - True
Hell, it can't be mentioned enough that the guy who drew that proved it wrong.I feel like Twitter and Facebook have proven that anonymity is not essential to the equation.
Indefensibility confirmed.
That you would associate it with them being 'white' rather than misguided falls flat on its arse.
Nobody cared before she put on the maskShe was around before she started talking about video games.
I found the articles to be an interesting litmus test. The general gist of them was "You don't have to pander to neckbeards, there are other people playing games too". It made all the people outraged that they were generalising all gamers as neckbeards look somewhat insecure.Can't help it if there are some idiots out there that have no reading comprehension skills and find it to be an attack on their persona and who they are.
I feel like Twitter and Facebook have proven that anonymity is not essential to the equation.
I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, but what the hell is gamergate?
Edit: yes yes yes, ok ok ok.
It's more about what we are taught, what media we consume and overall, all the toxic parts of masculinity that have no place in normal society. Society tells women to not get raped but never tells men to not do the raping or even have a serious discussion on that. The first thing always said is "she was asking for it" because of whatever she was wearing. We are very much told that we own women in what they can do, say or wear.
If you think that the prevalence of victim blaming in our society is a radfem beat-up you're not paying enough attention. It shows up in the media, the news and even the courts all the time.This is just complete horseshit.
It is about what you've been taught and it sounds to me like you've been indoctrinated with the worst excesses of radical feminism.
There should be a federal law on cyber-bullying.
This is just complete horseshit.
This is just complete horseshit.
It is about what you've been taught and it sounds to me like you've been indoctrinated with the worst excesses of radical feminism.
I think this has a significant amount of influence over the entire shemozzle. The industry didn't create it, but it did function as an outlet for fuckfaces to attempt justifying their being fuckfaces.
If you think that the prevalence of victim blaming in our society is a radfem beat-up you're not paying enough attention. It shows up in the media, the news and even the courts all the time.
This is just complete horseshit.
I think this has a significant amount of influence over the entire shemozzle. The industry didn't create it, but it did function as an outlet for fuckfaces to attempt justifying their being fuckfaces.
Except it's not. I'm sure it's harder for you to notice or pay attention to things you don't care about though
I can confirm this. I had to write a paper on Internet harassment for a course in my college. I went on some imageboard (16chan, I believe) to get some first-hand evidence. Right on the front page they were actually live-streaming a white, young, rotund man who killed his sister because she said she was interested in starting to learn programming. All the people on the chat were cheering on the guy and encouraging him.
I got so sick to my stomach after witnessing this that I dropped out of that course.
Anybody who thinks anonymity is what breeds terrible garbage on the internet hasn't looked at any sufficiently large political Facebook page comments section.I think it's even worse. I think that many people really are heinous pieces of shit, and are only constrained in the real world by their cowardice and socialization. The internet is a haven for them to "be themselves" by virtue of it's relative lawlessness. Think Lord of the Flies.
Anonymity was an appealing explanatory agent for some time but that time has passed.
Oh yes. That's right.
I must be uneducated or simply not care about rape to think the sort of view points espoused above are just piffle.
Please let me into your echo chamber. I don't want to have to have independant thoughts. It hurts.
No. You're absolutely right. Here in the UK we're taught in our sex education classes in both primary schools and secondary schools that consent is useless, it's ok to rape women and they're all asking for it.
It's literally taught in schools.
We have literally no adverts on TV advising young people of the importance of consent in sex.
We have literally no jail sentences for rape. Us British guys are actually encouraged to go out and take it by force. Literally.
How are we supposed to know it's wrong?
I can't remember the last time I read a news report that tried to blame a victim (male or female) for being raped over here. Maybe you are reading the wrong kind of media.
Society does tell men not to rape.
However, it doesn't actually explain what rape is all that well. Some people think that rape is horrible and evil and of course they would never do it, and yet admit they would, and I quote, "have intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse if nobody would ever know and there wouldn't be any consequences". Even ignoring the fact that roughly 1 in 3 college men admitted they would commit rape (yikes), there is a 20 point difference between those saying they would never rape, and those saying they would but using different language.
This means that there is a great lack of education in boys as to the meaning of consent, don't you think?
"She was asking for it"
"Rape" as a synonym for "defeat badly"
"No means yes! Yes means anal!"
Single digit sentences for convicted rapists
Self-admitted racists selling books and doing tours to teach their methods
Rape reporting rate around 1/5 of actual incidents
etc.
"She was asking for it"
"Rape" as a synonym for "defeat badly"
"No means yes! Yes means anal!"
Single digit sentences for convicted rapists
Self-admitted rapists selling books and doing tours to teach their methods
Rape reporting rate around 1/5 of actual incidents
etc.
The theory was "normal person" + anonymity + audience = dick. As has been said, Facebook, Twitter, etc, has proven that the anonymity isn't necessary. To be honest, I don't think audience is really necessary, either.
I think it's more like
"normal person" + opportunity - consequences = dick.
Edit: To clarify, I place "normal person" in the inverted commas, because I'd like to think that in both cases, the person isn't normal. I'd like to think that I'm normal and that I wouldn't do this. I'd like to think that normal people don't become dicks so easily.
Stuebenville's a really good case study for this sort of thing. Especially considering that the guy was welcomed straight back to the football team with open arms."She was asking for it"
"Rape" as a synonym for "defeat badly"
"No means yes! Yes means anal!"
Single digit sentences for convicted rapists
Self-admitted rapists selling books and doing tours to teach their methods
Rape reporting rate around 1/5 of actual incidents
etc.
I've never experienced anything like it, Candy. It was incredibly emotional -- incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believe their life fell apart. One of -- one of the young men, Ma'lik Richmond, when that sentence came down, he collapsed. He collapsed in the arms of his attorney, Walter Madison. He said to me, "My life is over. No one is going to want me now."
*chuckles* Damn PC police!
Stuebenville's a really good case study for this sort of thing. Especially considering that the guy was welcomed straight back to the football team with open arms.
Never forget:
There should, but the internet is international.
A US law on cyber-bullying does jack shit in Canada. Or England. Or Australia. Or anywhere else.
Then you have to define cyber-bulling. Is it for the thin-skinned people, who are devastated by "you suck"? Or is is lenient to the extreme?
Let me rephrase, wouldn't have gotten as big as it did imoConsidering the #GamerGate hashtag existed before that article, no.
The fuck? You witnessed a live murder?
I hope you're reporting it to the police or something?
Of course I didn't witness a live murder, that would have been insane. I may have poorly worded my post. The individual whose feed was being live-streamed was a notorious Gamergater that someone on Twitter pointed out had killed his sister over the circumstances I've mentioned earlier, and I have no reason to doubt the validity of that claim given what I know about Gamergate.
What you people have to understand is that all of the people who are directly or indirectly associating with Gamergate are serial-killer-material that cannot be trusted or negotiated with. If you've seen the Law & Order: SVU episode about Gamergate; that may as well have been a documentary. It exactly shows the mindset these ugly creatures bring into the world and the destruction they place upon anybody that doesn't 100% agree with their screwed-up ideology.
If you know a Gamergater in real life, I encourage you to look up their Twitter and other social media accounts and to report them to the police immediately if you find anything suspicious, because they are a threat to public safety. There has been a consistent pattern of rape and death threats sent out by every single Gamergater I have investigated. Gamergaters are zealots and need to be locked away.
Right on the front page they were actually live-streaming a white, young, rotund man who killed his sister
Well you did say
So I thought you witnessed a live murder
Of course I didn't witness a live murder, that would have been insane. I may have poorly worded my post. The individual whose feed was being live-streamed was a notorious Gamergater that someone on Twitter pointed out had killed his sister over the circumstances I've mentioned earlier, and I have no reason to doubt the validity of that claim given what I know about Gamergate.
What you people have to understand is that all of the people who are directly or indirectly associating with Gamergate are serial-killer-material that cannot be trusted or negotiated with. If you've seen the Law & Order: SVU episode about Gamergate; that may as well have been a documentary. It exactly shows the mindset these ugly creatures bring into the world and the destruction they place upon anybody that doesn't 100% agree with their screwed-up ideology.
If you know a Gamergater in real life, I encourage you to look up their Twitter and other social media accounts and to report them to the police immediately if you find anything suspicious, because they are a threat to public safety. There has been a consistent pattern of rape and death threats sent out by every single Gamergater I have investigated. Gamergaters are zealots and need to be locked away.
I hate GamerGate, but this is a balls-out ridiculous--more specifically, the unambiguous generalization that all GGers and everyone in the splash zone is a hair-trigger away from a raping, murdering holiday. This is a crazy overcorrection in countering GG extremism. I mean, shit, you believed that some random dude you were watching on a stream killed his sister (seemingly recently?) because you couldn't find a reason to not believe someone on the internet?
GamerGate is fucking shit, but this is clearly a couple clicks more nuanced than "they're all murderers waiting to snap." Between the majority of the threats that never came to fruition and the poor souls sucked up into actually believing (or just not aware) harassment is taking place, you're painting with too wide a brush.
This is sadly enough a large part of the issue. When people think of "rape", they think an violent assault by a stranger in a park or dark alley, when most rapes probably happen at home by partners or dates without too much resistance. People know "rape" is wrong, but there clearly is a huge gap of ignorance on what the acceptable boundaries are. There is a lot we can still do to educate on this front.Society does tell men not to rape.
However, it doesn't actually explain what rape is all that well. Some people think that rape is horrible and evil and of course they would never do it, and yet admit they would, and I quote, "have intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse if nobody would ever know and there wouldn't be any consequences". Even ignoring the fact that roughly 1 in 3 college men admitted they would commit rape (yikes), there is a 20 point difference between those saying they would never rape, and those saying they would but using different language.
This means that there is a great lack of education in boys as to the meaning of consent, don't you think?
I have a question for you: Would you defend a Nazi?
You just have to realize there are people in our society that do not deserve to be treated with anything but utter disgust. Gamergaters are among those people, and if you disagree, I think you are enabling their behavior.
I'm not going to indulge in your hyperbolic alarmism by comparing this to Nazism.I have a question for you: Would you defend a Nazi?
You just have to realize there are people in our society that do not deserve to be treated with anything but utter disgust. Gamergaters are among those people, and if you disagree, I think you are enabling their behavior.
Should be based on simple language just like if you are reporting an assault to the police.
If someone posts I will kill you, I hope you die, go die in a fire, go kill yourself, go commit suicide, I know where you live and will come by to burn down your house with you inside ect ect...
And if that person keeps harassing the victim to a breaking point, it is a clear stage of assisted manslaughter and cause of homicide.
Well, a lot of federal laws are like that. It doesn't mean anything internationally, but we shouldn't dismiss it since it is also easy to have a uniform law code if there is a similar law in another country.
And beside, we have relationship to request a person back to the States if bullying is the reason for a homicide.