GamerGate WTF?

[D_Yeti_Esquire]

To be fair, I've been following this from the start and it's a clusterfuck of ideologies and issues that's been reduced at this point to feminists vs. MRA's.

Really, the subheading of Gamergate is a bunch of things.

There is the actual incident which is about the pay to play gaming press. People are concerned about this (it annoyed me before this incident) to various levels.

There's Anita Saarkesian, who singlehandedly is doing more to prove misogyny just by existing and being threatened constantly at this point.

Then there's the main issue, which at this point is feminists insisting its about misogyny and MRA's insisting its about the press. In my estimation, more ink has been spilled invalidating the other issue in a "your issue doesn't matter or is irrelevant, but mine does matter" manner than anything.

If you've followed this thing long enough, you've seen more attempts to spin than a general election campaign.

So far I've learned young white mails are/are not the primary focus of the gaming industry, gamers are/are not defined as young white males, white boys are/are not misogynists, yadda, yadda, yadda. Honestly? It's about writers selling copy. No one is advancing any workable solutions, no one is conceding any points, and what people believe tends to fall exactly along the lines of political spectrum you'd expect.

[Rageaholic]

Holy shit, these people went after Felicia Day. All because she posted her concerns with GamerGate. Just when I thought this whole thing couldn't get any stupider.

Some of these gamer gate people are pulling the "we're not all like that" card and while that may be true, I'm still not buying this movement. Especially since they're acting like they've uncovered some huge conspiracy.

[Kheldarson]

Basically it's been picked up by the men's activist groups, and they've been going wild with it.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-ways-g...e-world-worse/ and http://www.mommyish.com/2014/10/16/g...sian-misogyny/ discuss it pretty well.

[Rageaholic]

I'm potentially opening a can of worms here, but seriously, WTF? I haven't been following this too closely, but a couple of days ago, after hearing so much about this, I had to figure out what all the shitstorm was about.

So apparently some bitter ex boyfriend of a game developer had some nasty things to post about her online. This leads to rumors about her sleeping around to get game reviews and the internet eats them up. Now there's some movement devoted to gamer journalistic integrity or something and this Zoe Quinn is considered public enemy number 1. And she's still getting crapped on 2 months after this!

I don't get it. Of all the people to warrant this much hate, why would it be someone who might have had an affair to boost game reviews? Unless there's something I'm missing... ?