debaser71 wrote:
That makes sense but outside the gaming circle (which to me seems like everyone I know personally) what the mainstream media says about gamergate is just taken as fact. This all plays into the larger issue that liberals seem to always be falling to recently, "the war on women". From STEM to games to atheism to salary to bodily autonomy to street harassment to manspreading...there's a war on women don'tchaknow! In this respect, to me, GG fails. GG is just more proof of misogyny in our culture! I guess it could be worse and I suppose I am glad it isn't but I was never worried. Maybe I should have been?
I've been demonized since the seventies, for being nerdy/geeky, for being smart, for reading a lot, for liking comics, war-games and role-playing games, now it's video and free speech. The mainstream media can fuck itself. We've beaten BADD, Jack Thomspn, Lieberman, others too numerous to mention. We'll beat this parasitical infection, and if most people don't understand it, or think poorly, screw them. I'm a progressive atheist in Texas. The majority of people, the ones who get ideas from mainstream media, haven't been an issue. The whole idea of "get to know an X", where X could be anything from homosexual to atheist to anything at all, applies. A few morons will listen and believe, but the majority of people know gamers - far more of them than atheists or gays. Odds are, if they don't play, their kids do, or their friends, or other relatives. That will counter anything the loons in journalism or politics try to do. Besides, this is the mainstream media that reported Elfwick seriously. Twice.
