Oh god Matt, you spit hot fire.
Iâd like to see this updated or serialized to include more of the right-wing vultures: an update on @-neroâs old tweets, Christina Hoff Sommers, Cathy Young, and some of the pickup / menâs rights leaders.
Boingboing! The site so nice, they named it twice. And frequently end up publishing the article twice 
Itâs caused by a wanky regex I made to insert an ad in the middle of the article. If we forget to include the trigger text it looks for, it repeats the content instead.
In other wordsâŚ
⌠I successfully implemented the ânow you have two problemsâ part of regular expressions.
The supporters of the movement arenât âright-wing conservativesâ - theyâre rabid reactionary misogynists. The whole thing is so fucking transparent that I canât believe anyone is trying to portray the gamertaints as a game journalism ethics movement with a straight face.
Best case scenario, they lack any awareness at all of their own motivations (or theyâre âuseful idiotsâ who have jumped on a bandwagon without having paid attention to what it actually is).
If they actually gave a fuck about âjournalistic ethicsâ, surely there are better targets than video games anyway for fuckâs sake? I mean, Rupert Murdochâs right there, peopleâŚ
The venn diagram of the overlap here is probably not EXACTLY a circle, but I bet itâs pretty close.
There is a third position on Gamergate. The position that neither âjournalistic integrity in game mediaâ nor âsexism in video gamesâ add up to anything worth spending much time on. Video game journalism sounds like a joke- thereâs no news in video games- just advertorial. And you canât claim that video games donât make people grab guns and go out and shoot people, and then turn around and claim that they make people sexist. Video games are just video games. They are ephemeral entertainment.
I suppose there is a third position⌠Itâs still wrong, though. Better luck next time!
That was some fine work, young social justice jedi warrior.
Thatâd be absurd, if anyone were actually saying that. If there are, I certainly havenât seen it. Could you point to anything to support this? Note: saying that some games are a product of and feed into a sexist culture is different from what you said.
Just as thereâs no news in movies, art, sportsâŚ
Christ, what a pack of assholes.
Adam Baldwinâs embrace of GamerGate is a reminder that you should never let your affection for a fictional character blind you to the fact that the actor who plays them might be less appealing; many capable artists are assholes. (Although itâs also the case that Jayne is only lovable in fiction; if he were a real person, heâd be in urgent need of shooting.)
Maybe weâll be closer to finding out if what you said is true or not soon.
My days of not taking Adam Baldwin seriously are nowhere near coming to a middle.
Thatâs not what anybody is claiming. The claim is that video games, in their content and production, reflect the institutional sexism in all society. We shouldnât accept it anywhere, and that includes in our mass media products, be they movies, literature, or games.
Well, specifically targeting games journalism would make sense if thatâs something you care about. But even for game journalism, the targets for gamertaint are all wrong - when they manage to target games journalists (and not game developers or other random women), theyâre going after people who have been active in promoting good journalistic practice (like Rock, Paper, Shotgun), not groups with histories of ethically suspect behavior (like, well, most of games journalism).
My assumption is that rabid reactions are indeed probably all misogynists. My issue was more with the understatement of calling them âright-wing conservatives,â which makes them sound like they could be somewhat less reactionary than their actual batshit wacko, anti-feminist positions.
I mean, I agree with the substantive point that those behind GamerGate are all douchebags, but I thought Andrea James taught us about Twitter being just for heckling and âsmugfuckeryâ?
Youâre begging some questions, here.
Itâs not a âthirdâ position, given that the movement isnât actually about journalistic integrity in game journalism, for one. Itâs about harassing and sending rape/death threats to female developers and journalists. Which makes your assertion that âsexism in video gamesâ isnât worth spending time on to be rather bizarre/sociopathic. As to there being âno newsâ in video game journalism - there certainly is, if you seek it out. Weâre talking about what is essentially a new medium here, worthy of the full range of critical discourse that film and literature get (even if, on the whole, itâs not yet quite worthy of that kind of attention, necessarily). Also, we have plenty of studies that show that although âephemeral entertainmentâ may not turn people into killing machines, it absolutely shapes peopleâs perceptions of âothers,â that is, different ethnicities, sexual orientations and genders, that impact how real people are treated in more subtle ways. Thatâs leaving aside the issue of representation in media and games acknowledging that their audiences arenât all white males.
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The only thing I got from that article is that Mr. Cernovich apparently doesnât know the definition of the word 'thoughtcrime".
