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fandomsecrets2018-01-01 03:28 pm
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[ SECRET POST #4016 ]
⌈ Secret Post #4016 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Intelligence, The Romeo Section]
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[American Vandal, Sara Pearson/Mr. Kraz]
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[Winona Ryder]
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[Doctor Who]
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[Bring It On]
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(Anonymous) 2018-01-02 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)Second, at some point, you have to be willing to, like, engage with things that actually happen, and not just write it all of as meaningless and random. It's horseshit, wako. No, not everyone in group A is a fuckhead. But we are human beings endowed with reason and judgment. We can look at and understand and judge patterns. We can evaluate and understand what is happening, and try to understand the reasons that is happening. You don't have to limit yourself to just making sure that no one could possibly think anyone negative of you personally, and refuse to engage with anyone else at all. And in this instance, there seem to have been a lot of people who identified as gamers, doing things because of the way that they understood that identity, for reasons that seem to me to be tenuous or bad or at the very least wildly disproportionate. And Felicia Day getting doxxed was a part of that broad phenomenon.
Saying that, and criticizing that, does not mean saying that all gamers are fuckheads. And as an intelligent human being, you should be able to grasp that idea and, you know, work with it and evaluate it as an idea instead of sticking your fucking head in the stand.
Shit.
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And we're talking about saying that all gamers scare her, which, while it's understandable, is also a stupid and insulting thing to do.
when a huge number of members of the group are acting like dickheads and are doxxing you
And here I think the issue is, I just don't buy that it a huge number of the group was acting like dickheads... but i understand I'm not persuading anyone on that point. The media narrative is too well ingrained at this stage. You would, I suspect, take my assertions that its a relatively small and noisy number acting like dicks as evidence that I am one of the dicks in question, yes?
I'm not saying the loud minority isn't scary, but letting yourself judge a whole group by the minority IS stupid, expecially when it only takes one person to doxx you. If I can look at the #KillAllMen breed of feminist, and realise - eventually, I admit - that they not the standard to judge every feminist, and judging ever feminist by that standard is stupid and dumb, I don't think I'm being unfair by taking the viewpoint that the same thing should apply to my group.
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(Anonymous) 2018-01-02 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)The thing is, dickhead is a broad category. I don't think that the majority of Gamergaters were doing those things. but I also think that the movement as a whole was vituperative and toxic, and that the behavior of the movement as a whole was as much about misogyny as any of its stated goals, and that its stated goals were wildly disproportionate to almost anything it did, and that it was taken advantage of by people whose political views are evil, and that the people who supported the movement mostly did so either because they agreed with some part of that fucked-up ideology and that misogyny, or because they placed a disproportionate amount of importance on its stated goals that blinded them to the actual actions of the movement, or in a small number of cases because they were duped.
I think that being critical of the movement as a whole is justified for reasons beyond the actions of the lunatic fringe, and I think that saying that you're scared of the lunatic fringe of the movement is justified if you're someone like Felicia Day. And I don't think that's just because the media has painted a nasty picture. And I don't think that those things are broadly the case with feminism as an ideology and a movement, outside of its lunatic fringe, although I know that you disagree with feminism as an ideology.
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That's a pretty bad read of the article in question. "A small voice of doubt in my brain now suspected that those guys and I might not be comrades after all. That they might not greet me with reflected friendliness, but contempt." Which is the entire problem with harassment in gaming right now. The minority of assholes are so unpleasant that they poison the well for just about everyone.
The media narrative is too well ingrained at this stage.
Oh, come on. Gamergate was the biggest pile of bullshit to come out of the internet, only eclipsed about a year later by Pizzagate. The initial accusations against Quinn were the incoherent and inaccurate rantings of an ex, and required time-traveling prostitution for a one-sentence background reference. You got played for a fool providing cover for a harassment campaign, with the FBI files just released under FOIA where key parties admitted to having engaged in criminal threats. All of which was targeted at gamers and resulted in gamers bailing out of social media or jobs within the industry. Good job!