Pold, I don't know if you've read it yet,
but read Felicia Day's post. Really read it. That's the personal experience of a woman involved in Gaming and how the public perception and affect of Gamer Gate had on her life BEFORE the doxxing. Remember that this is an actual person with actual feelings who has been personally victimized in the name of that movement.
I'm sorry if that's not what you want the movement to be. I'm sorry if that's not what the movement is at its heart, or that you believe that regardless of if it's true. But THAT'S what Gamer Gate has been to people who aren't in the privileged group at it's core.
So when you say you support Gamer Gate, THAT'S who you are to me. I don't care what your opinions on game journalism are, I don't care what kind of internal activism you're partaking in to address that issue. All I care about is the fact that you're supporting a movement that has had this effect on innocent people in the gaming industry, because the public face of the movement is defined by gross misogyny.
And to be blunt, I don't believe for a second that you're sitting in reddits writing condemnations of misogynistic behaviors in Gamer Gate. I think you're seeing a few others doing it, up-voting, and going to rant about Kotaku.
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My point was not about the tweet. My point wasn't about responses to the tweet. My point was that gamergate, in being a hashtag movement, is the kind of environment where that CAN happen. And for a long period, when you went in gamergate tags, it was a LOT of that. And it's a shame if that's not what the rest of the movement was about, but I honestly don't believe that. I don't believe that the anger over games journalism wasn't motivated by the "agenda" of social justice in games reporting. I don't believe that's not the general anger at Gawker and other sites. I just don't.
Edited, Oct 24th 2014 12:09pm by idiggory