GamerGate? Da fuq is a GamerGate?

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Originally Posted by Toast

I don't think there's a need to be so pedantic about it. Maybe avoid equating people who disagree with you with people who are actively harassing others would be a nice start. Just saying.



I haven't argued the validity of any group. I've pointed out trends that I've been seeing. I've offered the perspective of a person who doesn't follow twitter hashtags. And even if you're not directing this part of your post towards me, I think my overall point still stands.

No one who is posting in this thread deserves to be lumped together with people who are sending rape and death threats. Because I think it is highly unlikely that anyone here is actually sending rape and death threats. Astonishing, I know. But this goes beyond this thread, as I've mentioned. This same conversation has been going on for a month on dozens of forums and they all end up pretty much the same. Someone says essentially what you've said, and it starts a whole new shitstorm because you've put a nice little label on people who disagree with you which gives you all the license you need to dumb everything down to binary choices and anyone who isn't as fervently on the side you've decided is the right one can get stuffed.


I'd be cool with that. But no one is having that discussion because we can't stop attacking each other and we can't stop bringing up the harassment of women in the games industry as if it's new and relevant each time it's posted. I'm not saying it should be ignored, far from it, but there's no need to grind the discussion to a halt every five posts.

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Thank you.

There is a LOT to unpack here, but the most important thing is you're interpreting my post in the exact opposite way it was intended.