what? how do you come to that conclusion? this is fucking right up there with jack thompson. did you send this threat? or make any threats yourself? how can you believe this stupid generalization if you haven't done anything of the like yourself?
this is a stupid person or people doing stupid ass things. nothing more or less.
Gotta admit, it makes a pretty slick (though logically unsound) strategy for the GG people. Any time one of them gets out of line, it was actually just their enemies trying to make them look bad. All evidence against their narrative is actually more evidence in favor of it, you see.
what? how do you come to that conclusion? this is fucking right up there with jack thompson. did you send this threat? or make any threats yourself? how can you believe this stupid generalization if you haven't done anything of the like yourself?
this is a stupid person or people doing stupid ass things. nothing more or less.
what? how do you come to that conclusion? this is fucking right up there with jack thompson. did you send this threat? or make any threats yourself? how can you believe this stupid generalization if you haven't done anything of the like yourself?
this is a stupid person or people doing stupid ass things. nothing more or less.
what? how do you come to that conclusion? this is fucking right up there with jack thompson. did you send this threat? or make any threats yourself? how can you believe this stupid generalization if you haven't done anything of the like yourself?
this is a stupid person or people doing stupid ass things. nothing more or less.
Anita is a woman, therefore threats
Jack Thompson is a powerful attorney factually trying to destroy M-rated video games, therefore threats.
Yes. Harmless and impossible to prevent.
If you think about it, if she just stopped scrolling through her mentions on Twitter, she wouldn't ever have to see any harassment. And since it didn't get noticed, it would eventually slow and stop! Maybe that's an optimistic hope, but she constantly feeds it by saying how hard it is for her, and how she will never give in. If I hated Anita, tweets like that would make me madder than ever.
Anita is a woman, therefore threats
Jack Thompson is a powerful attorney factually trying to destroy M-rated video games, therefore threats.
I'm not a fan of the content she puts out, but I do think it's good that she's started the discussion on the roles on women in video games. So I suppose I could say I'm in the same boat.
lol if you think this is a woman. Women generally don't do this type of thing. This type of aggressive shit is almost always done by low level idiot scum.
Pardon, but it really sounded like you were phrasing it to mean "she's causing shit and making people threaten her. If you just ignore her she'll go away"
It just kind of sounds like victim blaming is all
Probably got rejected too many times on dating sites and now hates every woman his age and below.I get the feeling that the perpetrator is a teenager who spends too much time in the wrong places.
No. I think many of her opinions are bs* and and if some trolls wouldn't care that much about her, people like me and many more would never listen about her.
This problem is not remotely limited to gaming. This is an overall society problem, not a hobby-related problem. It's not that gamers need to grow up. It's the world in general.Most embarrassing hobby just got more embarrassing. It's shit like this that makes gamers look bad.
Probably got rejected too many times on dating sites and now hates every woman his age and below.
I'm not seeing how that's at all relevant to the fact that sending death threats to anyone is wrong.
Let's not go there.
That's red herring it a bit ain't it? Also, Anita is NOT getting threats because she's a woman.
Both are extremely wrong, and neither should be used to justify the other in any sort of way.
This problem is not remotely limited to gaming. This is an overall society problem, not a hobby-related problem. It's not that gamers need to grow up. It's the world in general.
Most embarrassing hobby just got more embarrassing. It's shit like this that makes gamers look bad.
This problem is not remotely limited to gaming. This is an overall society problem, not a hobby-related problem. It's not that gamers need to grow up. It's the world in general.
Someone who is too stupid to realize that being angry at someone having an alternative viewpoint is a really dumb thing to go to federal prison over.Who the hell issues a bomb threat for not agreeing on one of the most consequenceless awards of all time?
I don't think it would be a stretch to say that the person who sent GDC a bomb threat was a gamer. Or that the many people who have sent her death and rape threats, and harassed her friends and loved ones, were also gamersThis isn't "gamers" sending her a bomb threat, this is one nutter sending her a bomb threat. I'm sure the vast majority of people who play games will not agree that she deserves something as extreme as that, even if they add a remark about not liking her.
I don't think it would be a stretch to say that the person who sent GDC a bomb threat was a gamer. Or that the many people who have sent her death and rape threats, and harassed her friends and loved ones, were also gamers
Make sure to give lots and lots of attention to this so whoever did it "for the lulz" feels like they get their 15 minutes worth and wants to do it again.
Good old media outrage cycle. "It keeps happening?!!" Starve this sort of shit of oxygen, get authorities on the case, the end.
I get what you're saying, but I think people who say things like that, are coming from the mindset that anyone who has actually socialized with a woman, would know how to treat them, especially that they are deserving of the industry's best efforts just as much as men are. And they definitely shouldn't be attacked for asking to be catered to.Attack the actions, not the person. Fake Bomb Guy is a horrible person because he made that bomb threat and his reasoning to do so, not because he has never dated a woman.
I know what the poster is saying. I also know what the poster who that poster quoted was saying. Fifty-eight percent of Americans may play games, but 58 percent do not identify as "gamers". That's a label that a certain subsection of the larger game playing public gives itself. And it's a label that is steadily carrying more and more negative baggage in the eyes of the general public. And things like GamerGate, and the continued harassment that women receive in the gaming community, will only further that growing negative sentiment.The poster wasn't saying that the person sending the bombthreat isn't a gamer, they're saying that "gamers" didn't send it. Plural, gamers in general, the 58% of Americans who are gamers.
This is being released now? And by Kotaku of all people. Hmm.
Death threats are typically reserved for women in this industry. There is no reason to assume that Anita is some weird exception.
I know what the poster is saying. I also know what the poster who that poster quoted was saying. Fifty-eight percent of Americans may play games, but 58 percent do not identify as "gamers". That's a label that a certain subsection of the larger game playing public gives itself. And it's a label that is steadily carrying more and more negative baggage in the eyes of the general public. And things like GamerGate, and the continued harassment that women receive in the gaming community, will only further that growing negative sentiment.
I don't think it would be a stretch to say that the person who sent GDC a bomb threat was a gamer. Or that the many people who have sent her death and rape threats, and harassed her friends and loved ones, were also gamers
There's no reason to assume that death threats are typically reserved for women in this industry either.
That's also irrelevant, death threats are a fucking crime regardless of reason.
There is no 'these' people. This was the action of ONE person, months before this was a hot-button issue. How is it in any way OK to indict "gamers" or ANY group that has more than this one guy in it?
This is being released now? And by Kotaku of all people. Hmm.
There's no reason to assume that death threats are typically reserved for women in this industry either.
That's also irrelevant, death threats are a fucking crime regardless of reason.