I’ve been looking for the perfect hashtag, to sum up a reasonable, nonsexist response to #GamerGate… and I think you may have nailed it for me. #Actually would be a good hashtag for men and women who are fed up with this kind of bullshit.
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Not really. I suck at stuff like this. Poor communication skills. 
I’m much better with a dodgy pun or a one-liner.
But thanks anyway. 
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If you don’t see how you can contribute positively after people have explained dozens of way, maybe just move along instead of making such a huge stink. Your lack of understanding on how you can contribute is something you can remedy on your own and not the responsibility of anyone on this forum. You’ve been offered suggestions, if you didn’t like them find your own ways, but do at least start with expanding your awareness.
If you’ve been out in public anywhere at anytime then it is within your sphere of experience, your being unaware of what was happening within your sphere of experience is not anyone else’s fault. I’ve seen this happen in every place I’ve ever visited and I’ve been around the world and to every state. I first became aware of this back in highschool when I noticed that girls were constantly told to smile, and wondered why they had to smile, from there my awareness expanded and even as a highschool freshman all those years ago I noticed it everywhere I went, even in professional workplaces, libraries, hospitals, small towns, cities, on the streets, everywhere. Unless you are an agoraphobic shut-in, then it has happened countless times right in front of you, that is a fact.
You aren’t obligated to do anything, no one is saying you are, but if you don’t want to then you can certainly at the very least refrain from making such a big stink about not wanting/being able to do anything in the comments, that alone would be a contribution. Detracting from the cause certainly doesn’t help. If you do truly want to do something you can take a cue from the more abeled and more aware offering suggestions.
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You and I have clashed before Marilove, so let’s for once try to keep things civil.
What the hell? I WAS civil. I don’t respond well to being condescended to, though.
You asked what you could do and I thought you were being sincere but I guess not. Look! You’ve made it all about you all over again and here you are, mansplaining yet again, and lecturing me. You ignored EVERY SINGLE THING I SAID and are instead talking to me about this subject.
Think about the maths? Really? That’s what you’re taking from all this?
I fucking give up. You’re not worth my time. And I tried, I really do, but you don’t actually care about helping or doing something. You just want to talk at me and lecture me about a subject you even admit to not understanding.
you kinda DO owe us an explanation.
I owe you an explanation? Are you fucking kidding me? Holy fucking shit.
If we were in meatspace, I would give you a nice, big finger, circle it around slowly so I make sure you see it clearly, tell you to fuck off, and leave the room.
Your entire response was terrible. FOR ONCE, SHUT UP AND LISTEN!
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More defensive than someone who speaks of their own preferences in the singular indefinite?
It’s like I read everything you said, and I remember being that self centered once.
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I feel this needs to be said to all parties involved in this discussion
Show us what it looks like to have heard it.
It’s the best damned comment in the thread so far.
it doesn’t look like that ^
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For the sake of my stomach, this topic is now closed and new replies are no longer allowed.
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