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102. That line about ethics in gaming media confused me at first

Sun Oct 12, 2014, 09:39 PM

Oct 2014

Wil Wheaton tweeted something about Anitia Sarkeesian and his feed got swarmed by people demanding he stand up for ethics in gaming media. I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I dug a little deeper and unearthed this nasty underbelly. It sickens me - as a geek and a gamer I don't want to be associated with these scum. They're the same people who harass cosplayers and girls in comic shops - their precious little boy's club is threatened and this is the only way they know to deal with it.
And Intel just bowed to the Gamergate people.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/10/04/353702104/intel-pulls-ads-from-gaming-site-amid-gamergate-debate

Thank goodness geek icons like Wheaton and John Scalzi are standing up against these testosterone filled rage-nerds.

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Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats [View all] sufrommich Oct 2014 OP

Appalling. cyberswede Oct 2014 #1

How dare SHE create a successful game. Exactly. n/t Triana Oct 2014 #14

How dare SHE create a successful game--exposing the abject life failures of those gamers. nt TheBlackAdder Oct 2014 #154

Oh, I'm sure it's just a few 12-year-olds "blowing off steam". bullwinkle428 Oct 2014 #2

It's a whole "movement" Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2014 #24

Yes. Thank you for posting this - it really needs to be said. KitSileya Oct 2014 #29

You're welcome. Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2014 #45

It's not just one daredtowork Oct 2014 #83

Well said. That's all for now, I'll try to get back on this. freshwest Oct 2014 #64

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2014 #65

"white...and a lot of Asian males"? Oh, honey uppityperson Oct 2014 #66

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2014 #67

It's interesting which threads bring in the one post sufrommich Oct 2014 #68

It's hilarious how these "superior" people have nothing better to do than troll discussion forums. arcane1 Oct 2014 #69

Lack of imagination? greatauntoftriplets Oct 2014 #71

My Articles daredtowork Oct 2014 #81

Yeah...note the "Men's Rights" Point of view comes from Breitbart.com? Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2014 #82

In my post I underscored that source daredtowork Oct 2014 #85

That line about ethics in gaming media confused me at first sweetloukillbot Oct 2014 #102

Notice they started with Zoe Quinn? Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2014 #117

We did disavow it Hayabusa Oct 2014 #113

Except for the fact that your claims against Zoe Quinn have proven to be false. Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2014 #116

"Abandon this Crusade." No. Hayabusa Oct 2014 #128

"journalistic ethics"? Sheldon Cooper Oct 2014 #130

Yep, you got me! Hayabusa Oct 2014 #132

Plenty of women hate women. kcr Oct 2014 #167

It's a right wing movement and anyone who spends anytime sufrommich Oct 2014 #133

I see criticism of a brand of feminism Hayabusa Oct 2014 #136

No,it's pretty much feminism in general ,stop whitewashing this "movement". sufrommich Oct 2014 #143

we hear that often from men. a "brand" of feminism. that would be anything that may step on mans toe seabeyond Oct 2014 #146

Yep. More info here: sufrommich Oct 2014 #149

why not acknowledging and going after in their group, instead of saying... not me? that is the seabeyond Oct 2014 #153

No no no! It's all about "journalistic ethics". Sheldon Cooper Oct 2014 #156

I would agree on all of this except that I don't believe Adam Baldwin is related to the other seaglass Oct 2014 #140

Thanks for the info. Not a Baldwin brother. nt sufrommich Oct 2014 #144

agree, not to long ago, people like Palin had twitter 'classes' & RW started spamming the R agenda. Sunlei Oct 2014 #142

Don't Forget "Justice Warrior" daredtowork Oct 2014 #175

i wonder where justice warrior originated. we started hearing it on here. i thought cool. it was seabeyond Oct 2014 #183

WTF! City Lights Oct 2014 #3

WTF? etherealtruth Oct 2014 #4

So, I wonder how many gunz this Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #5

Most PC gamers are in their 20s and 30s. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #25

How does Rome 2 compare to TW:Rome, ie Rome I? EX500rider Oct 2014 #35

Obviously a far more advanced graphics engine. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #37

RTS? Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #36

Real Time Strategy. Games like Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, etc. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #38

Are you getting the Borderlands Pre Sequel this Tuesday? Skeeter Barnes Oct 2014 #39

I am. bravenak Oct 2014 #40

Yes! Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #43

I can't decide who to start with. Might just go with Claptrap but the others look fun too. Skeeter Barnes Oct 2014 #46

Already have it ordered and downloaded... SidDithers Oct 2014 #47

Mark this date on the calander. Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #49

Whaaaattttt? blackspade Oct 2014 #106

Do you play Dayz if you do this is my server.... stonecutter357 Oct 2014 #124

(Starts flame war about Civ 5 vs. previous versions) (nt) jeff47 Oct 2014 #92

Civ Threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee daredtowork Oct 2014 #96

It takes getting used to. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #118

Yep, looking forward to trying it out. jeff47 Oct 2014 #164

playing EQ1 & 2 for over a decade, about half the gamers are female & most are adults. Sunlei Oct 2014 #139

Why would she flee her home? scarystuffyo Oct 2014 #6

... SidDithers Oct 2014 #10

LOL DanTex Oct 2014 #13

so. like fuggin day one. seabeyond Oct 2014 #18

Yup. Been obvious from the outset...nt SidDithers Oct 2014 #19

same with one other. i asked, but he doesnt want to tell me. sigh.... ah well. nt seabeyond Oct 2014 #20

Hehehe!!! bravenak Oct 2014 #41

Because it takes time to track down the idiot who wrote this mythology Oct 2014 #42

Um...because someone threatened to kill her and knows her address? Rex Oct 2014 #50

She should stay home and wait for the police to figure out who it is, then arrest them? arcane1 Oct 2014 #70

I saw this retweeted on Twitter last night. There are some really fucked up scary men out seaglass Oct 2014 #7

The product of a diseased mind. malthaussen Oct 2014 #8

it's easy to see in comments on other mass websites, not game related BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #73

WTF? IronLionZion Oct 2014 #9

because they hate women. because they are weak, and cowardly, and it makes them feel like they are seabeyond Oct 2014 #12

Because they think they can remain anonymous forever. marble falls Oct 2014 #26

I hate bullies IronLionZion Oct 2014 #44

ya??? get the dweebs counciling? how about fuckin prosecuting their ass and throw it in jail.... seabeyond Oct 2014 #58

Imo, dotymed Oct 2014 #56

of course it is not a man. it is a weak coward. hey women on du.... how many have had this SHIT seabeyond Oct 2014 #59

Power and self-centered jeff47 Oct 2014 #91

Kathy Sierra explains it well catrose Oct 2014 #103

there are some sick human beings in this world....sick, sick, sick spanone Oct 2014 #11

instaspam of twitter brings out the worse in some people Sunlei Oct 2014 #15

In the article I posted earlier catrose Oct 2014 #115

good article! twitter trolls are not anonymous.Death threats will result in police charges. Sunlei Oct 2014 #135

I posted that as well with little response Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #182

Didn't get much response myself... catrose Oct 2014 #186

has anyone been arrested? barbtries Oct 2014 #16

Women in sports used to get this kind of treatment. Now it's women in gaming... DesertDiamond Oct 2014 #17

Gamers can be nasty, vicious people. Jester Messiah Oct 2014 #21

Internet culture in general is pretty vile. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #33

I used to do On line chat in a 3 d world... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #57

Usually, you can find guilds and similar organizations in MMORPGs jeff47 Oct 2014 #94

Isn't making death threats against the law? I don't think the First Amendment KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #22

Direct threats of imminent violence/harm are not protected. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #31

I hope so. I'm all in favor of vigorous and spirited debate, but KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #32

That would be my guess. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #34

These terrorists hide behind anonymizers jmowreader Oct 2014 #87

They probably weren't that sophisticated. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #88

I'm laying odds on the 15 year old brother daredtowork Oct 2014 #100

It is, but it can be hard to track down. jeff47 Oct 2014 #95

Interesting. These threats seem specific enough (esp. the one with KingCharlemagne Oct 2014 #99

The target's easy to find - they're going to the police, after all. jeff47 Oct 2014 #104

Is it cynical of me.... Adrahil Oct 2014 #112

It's primarily a jurisdiction problem. jeff47 Oct 2014 #163

laws need to be made to address this issue. bring law to 2015. that simple. nt seabeyond Oct 2014 #165

Yes, a federal law will make it somewhat easier jeff47 Oct 2014 #166

Anyone who still supports Gamergate is supporting this. KitSileya Oct 2014 #23

Thank you and well said. nt sufrommich Oct 2014 #51

Looks at Watch and Waits for the Usual Trolls daredtowork Oct 2014 #89

Hardly... Oktober Oct 2014 #185

I confess that I was totally ignorant of this whole scene, Gamergate & all. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #27

same here eom LittleGirl Oct 2014 #30

There have been several attempts to post about it here daredtowork Oct 2014 #90

Same here. blackspade Oct 2014 #107

That could be a very interesting discussion. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #109

Someone just shared this information with me, from a book by Charles Eisenstein classof56 Oct 2014 #28

Point your grandson at Corey Doctorow's "For the Win" Retrograde Oct 2014 #62

Thanks so much for recommending Doctorow's book. classof56 Oct 2014 #74

There's a documentary about this, too daredtowork Oct 2014 #93

I know very little about gaming, and I thought the book was great n/t eridani Oct 2014 #122

Sounds like someone wishes to spend the rest of their life in prison. Rex Oct 2014 #48

Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats Veilex Oct 2014 #52

" targeting feminists/feminism"".... seabeyond Oct 2014 #60

Account suspended on Twitter... yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #53

Asshole needs to see the inside of a prison. Rex Oct 2014 #54

Yeh, let the gamer play in the dust yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #55

they need to start sending these men to jail. we NEED to change law, to specifically address seabeyond Oct 2014 #61

This perpetrator needs to go to prison for a long time WestSideStory Oct 2014 #63

The Internet has revealed just how many men there are who are outraged about Arugula Latte Oct 2014 #72

Women can't post ANYTHING on the Internet without this kind of shit Number23 Oct 2014 #75

+1. nt seabeyond Oct 2014 #76

it's like the Tea Party of the gaming world NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #77

there's DUers who are afraid of women Skittles Oct 2014 #131

DU Mods Proclaimed Gamergate Matters IRRELEVANT to DU daredtowork Oct 2014 #78

Come here first you pasty little runt. alphafemale Oct 2014 #79

Hard to find words strong enough for that... 99Forever Oct 2014 #80

K & R for exposure. nt SunSeeker Oct 2014 #84

I know I am officially old now. cwydro Oct 2014 #86

Think about how people treat each other over when they take high school sports jeff47 Oct 2014 #97

I see no reason why the person who wrote that should ever see the outside of a prison cell geek tragedy Oct 2014 #98

amy Hennig DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #101

Great female what in gaming? KitSileya Oct 2014 #114

In the sentence above, females is the noun. nt NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #119

Pretty much all mammals have females. KitSileya Oct 2014 #125

I honestly never got that hung over over male/female vs Men/Women. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #126

I think scientists, sexists, and Ferengi are the only ones who still use 'female' KitSileya Oct 2014 #127

You are making this into something it isn't. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #129

And I disagree. KitSileya Oct 2014 #151

Guess we'll have to disagree. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #157

WTF? I wish I could get that 30 seconds of my life back joeglow3 Oct 2014 #161

I sed female because DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #141

Woman is not wrong. KitSileya Oct 2014 #147

interesting. you are teaching me something. i think most society teaches especially men not to use seabeyond Oct 2014 #150

Infantilize her, or constrain her within outdated notions of 'proper behavior'. KitSileya Oct 2014 #155

exactly. i could remember very young balking at lady. nt seabeyond Oct 2014 #158

My standard reply to being called a lady is, jen63 Oct 2014 #179

funny you say that DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #168

ok, not meant as a slur DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #138

And I didn't think you meant it as a slur. KitSileya Oct 2014 #145

because of this argument, i now use girl/women often enough. but i used female when i seabeyond Oct 2014 #148

I appreciate that DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #170

Yeah, these cretins need to be run out of the gaming community on rails, KitSileya Oct 2014 #172

amen DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #173

This message was self-deleted by its author chrisa Oct 2014 #160

The entire gaming community is full of little man-children who pitch fits over stupid things. chrisa Oct 2014 #159

The irony is I bet you don't see how judgmental and stereotyping your post is. joeglow3 Oct 2014 #162

I am a gamer and gamergate is embarrassing to me. chrisa Oct 2014 #174

You are talking about, at best, 50% of 1%. joeglow3 Oct 2014 #178

The majority of gamers are also casuals who don't care about any of this. chrisa Oct 2014 #187

what an asshole. blackspade Oct 2014 #105

Seriously WTF is wrong with some people? Initech Oct 2014 #108

this person said DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #110

K&R! burrowowl Oct 2014 #111

Trolls must think they're unaccounta,....I mean cops. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #120

Ya know, I'm a heavy gamer JesterCS Oct 2014 #121

Death to Brianna = The 40-Year-Old Virgin Mister Nightowl Oct 2014 #123

I've never understood the fixation with these games. redstatebluegirl Oct 2014 #134

everybody has addictions DonCoquixote Oct 2014 #169

That poor guy! daredtowork Oct 2014 #180

Yikes! ProfessorGAC Oct 2014 #137

Where is the NSA when this crap is going on? Ash_F Oct 2014 #152

Gamers are some of the rudest jackasses around Calista241 Oct 2014 #171

Centipede derby378 Oct 2014 #176

I'm for using the state and federal stalking laws against the people who do this. stevenleser Oct 2014 #177

What in the blue hifiguy Oct 2014 #181

Assholes on the internet.... Oktober Oct 2014 #184

Saying there is a "gaming community" is like saying there is a "TV-watching community" Bonobo Oct 2014 #188

Gawker Brings the Hammer Down on GamerGate daredtowork Oct 2014 #189