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Gamergate has another target: Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn. They claim she uses corruption in video game journalism to get her game across, which has been shown to be false.
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If the people sending Sarkeesian death threats really wanted her dead, a gun ban would not stop them from trying. As for the death threats, I know some of the hate mail she has showcased in the past has been shown to be fake, and Sarkeesian's reputation as a fraud and a mountebank makes the claim she invented them believable, but neither of these two things show that she did so conclusively, and, as KG pointed out earlier, the videos claiming to show that Sarkeesian faked her own death threats are conspiracy-laden logic-free bonanzas.
As for Sarkeesian's claims regarding video games and the video games industry: they have shown to be conclusively false. The majority of gamers today are women, and women play prominent roles in the gaming industry today. Almost every example Sarkeesian gives of 'misogyny' and 'sexism' in games is either cherry-picked or doesn't show what she claims it shows. For example, one mission in the game Hitman: Absolution is set in a strip club, which she takes out of context to say that the game is sexist... because the player can kill the strippers if they want to. She also takes a portion from the game Watch_Dogs set in a strip club that is the centre of a sex trafficking operation as further evidence of misogyny. The kicker is that in that mission, your goal is to actually shut the place down. The list of game footage and screen-shots she has purposively taken out of context is long indeed. I even came across a pro-feminist female game critic (who obviously sympathised with Sarkeesian's project) who criticised Sarkeesian for not providing actual examples of misogyny in games. Sarkeesian even claimed that Bayonetta was purposively designed for the sexual gratification of straight male gamers... Bayonetta was designed by a woman.
I've been getting into it with a white knight/social justice warrior type on my FB. I honestly can't decided who to despise the most. The self-proclaimed 'feminists' who clearly don't actually believe the salacious nonsense they espouse, or the smiling apologists who actually believe that women are still being oppressed in the West, even though it is obvious to everybody with more than half a brain that they're not.
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostThis is well beyond "speech being chilled." It's about misogyny so rampant its proponents react to being called on it by making death threats toward random women.
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostI'm guessing you mean "it" being this:
And "white" being:
Mighty white of you.
Used to describe someone who thinks they've done a great deed, charitable action or sacrifice, but in reality they've done very little to help the human condition.
Earl: I gave that homeless man my half eaten apple.
Roger: Wow, thats mighty white of you.
It's idiomatic, but the UD does a decent job catching the flavor there.
This is well beyond "speech being chilled." It's about misogyny so rampant its proponents react to being called on it by making death threats toward random women.
But that's only tangential to the OP, which is about Utah and an open carry law so mindlessly enforced they can't even bar guns at a venue that's been openly targeted by a crazy intent on a shooting spree.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostLT, I'm still curious what you meant earlier about it being a white comment.
Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostOf course, I hate the idea of speech being chilled but this isn't a total loss for her.
Mighty white of you.
Used to describe someone who thinks they've done a great deed, charitable action or sacrifice, but in reality they've done very little to help the human condition.
Earl: I gave that homeless man my half eaten apple.
Roger: Wow, thats mighty white of you.
It's idiomatic, but the UD does a decent job catching the flavor there.
This is well beyond "speech being chilled." It's about misogyny so rampant its proponents react to being called on it by making death threats toward random women.
But that's only tangential to the OP, which is about Utah and an open carry law so mindlessly enforced they can't even bar guns at a venue that's been openly targeted by a crazy intent on a shooting spree.
Now sure, I did post it to draw our local gun crazies out of their bunkers, but I didn't guess it'd draw out our local epos at the same time.
My bad.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostLT, I'm still curious what you meant earlier about it being a white comment.
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LT, I'm still curious what you meant earlier about it being a white comment.
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Pap, if you've got something cogent to add to the thread, fire away. Up your game or get out.
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For the record DE responding to me is useless I can't see it. your on my ignore list, I just happened to be looking over my dearest's shoulder. Paprika, you know that your level of asshattery earns you zero respect around here right? Same to you Darth. Neither of you are liked, nor cared about, you just are around because we tend to think you're entertaining. more or less a good laugh.
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Originally posted by Catholicity View PostJust curious.
Why is it that your response to someone talking about people acting like fools is to criticize the person bearing the news. Do you just not like to hear that bad things happen in this world or do you like to be a jerk all the time.
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