Parallel in not-so-unexpected-places: The more I think about it, a particular brand of “Gamergate” criticism of Anita Sarkeesian is like a particular brand of TeaParty/right-wing criticism of Obama: Sarkeesian is completely useless and can do nothing, but has the absolute power to dictate, censor the course of the massive, mainstream gaming industry to a Stalinist …
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GamerGate hates women and crowdfunding (maybe even dinner)
GamerGate – the movement of digital backlash by dudes who take gaming too seriously so they are angry at women* who take a serious look at gaming – hates crowdfunding for a very specific reason, argues Katherine Cross at feministing: Crowdfunding means that someone challenging the status quo can get an income. Without being beholden …
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Free Speech, Citizens, and Twitter, Or: How Andrew Sullivan Misses the Point
Isn’t it awkward when professional bloggers don’t understand how social media works? A few days ago, widely read conservative white-but-not-straight blogger Andrew Sullivan railed against the new cooperation between Women Action Media and Twitter. The micro-blogging platform and the non-profit will work together to better report, track, understand, and work against cyber harassment of users, primarily women. That this harassment is …
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I realized just how much I’d internalized the presumed process: if you’re even asking about equality or diversity in games, being shouted down in a traumatizing manner is now a mandatory step that you have to sit back and endure. But I don’t hate #Gamergate for what they’ve done to me. I’m a researcher; my …
