Utah!

[Juvenal]

With apologies to Charles Dickens.

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”

[robrecht]

It is becoming harder and harder to determine what is reality and what is parody.

[KingsGambit]

I think she gains more out of this than she loses; she gets international headlines where she looks like a martyr as opposed to giving a speech in front of a few hundred people. Of course, I hate the idea of speech being chilled but this isn't a total loss for her.

[KingsGambit]

Incidentally, if there's anybody else like me who had no idea what this is all about, here is a good primer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...-need-to-read/

[Darth Executor]

I always stage my mass shootings at places full of other people packing heat.

[CMD]

I always stage my mass shootings at places full of other people packing heat.

That's the smart and effective way to do it, and why the majority of mass shootings happen at NRA meetings and popular gun ranges.

[Juvenal]

I think she gains more out of this than she loses; she gets international headlines where she looks like a martyr as opposed to giving a speech in front of a few hundred people. Of course, I hate the idea of speech being chilled but this isn't a total loss for her.

That's mighty white of ya, there, KG.

[Paprika]

I think she gains more out of this than she loses; she gets international headlines where she looks like a martyr as opposed to giving a speech in front of a few hundred people. Of course, I hate the idea of speech being chilled but this isn't a total loss for her.

The victim card has possibly the highest currency.

[KingsGambit]

That's mighty white of ya, there, KG.

Eh?

I've been pretty firmly on her side in discussions on this elsewhere; but objectively speaking I see this as advantageous for her.

[Paprika]

Incidentally, if there's anybody else like me who had no idea what this is all about, here is a good primer hopelessly biased account

You made an error.

[Chaotic Void]

Incidentally, if there's anybody else like me who had no idea what this is all about, here is a good primer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...-need-to-read/

(For the record, I'm not the world's biggest fan of Sarkeesian, but I wholly condemn the death threats)

That's one place you can go. Another place (more Pro-GamerGate, naturally) is the KnowYourMeme page, but I can't link there because there's NSFW stuff. In all reality, though, I would strongly advise- unless this sort of thing is relevant to you- against doing anything beyond a superficial examination. Not because it isn't a worthwhile topic (Eh... Personally, I think it's just "Video Games are Satanic/Violent" from when I was a kid all over again, except now it's "Video Games are Misogynist/Homophobic" and it's gone Full Tilt because the Gamers aren't taking it lying down this time), but because to get to the truth you have to get past a swirling maelstrom of fecal matter belonging to Social Justice Jihadi and Toxic Internet Trolls.

(Also, for those interested, Christina Sommers has a good video on the topic of "Are Video Games Sexist?")

[KingsGambit]

Someone on another site linked to an article that tried to claim that Sarkeesian faked her own death threats, Loose-Change style. One of the main "arguments" was that, while logged out, somebody on Twitter screencapped a series of threats against her, and that it must have been her screencapping her own posts because the last one was only 12 seconds ago (though it was just the last of many). And apparently another gamer is arguing that another blogger faked her own threats because she posts on Twitter using periods at the end of her sentence and so did the person threatening her. Some of these apologetics are just ridiculous.

[Paprika]

Someone on another site linked to an article that tried to claim that Sarkeesian faked her own death threats, Loose-Change style. One of the main "arguments" was that, while logged out, somebody on Twitter screencapped a series of threats against her, and that it must have been her screencapping her own posts because the last one was only 12 seconds ago (though it was just the last of many). And apparently another gamer is arguing that another blogger faked her own threats because she posts on Twitter using periods at the end of her sentence and so did the person threatening her. Some of these apologetics are just ridiculous.

Well well, it seems like you've accepted the victim card currency.

[KingsGambit]

Well well, it seems like you've accepted the victim card currency.

Sometimes one person really is in the right.

[Paprika]

Sometimes one person really is in the right.

I'll stop taking your judgments non-seriously when you don't post hopelessly biased accounts as 'a good primer'.