The monkey is unnecessary, though.

Anita didn't scam anyone, though. Just putting the facts out there.

she's just guilty of being a sub-mediocre critic and a shoddy journalist. this entire thing is so ridiculous. it's bringing out the worst and stupidest in everybody.

It's true. I wasn't a fan of her work before and it's still deeply flawed, but the response has been full-retard. PS: I'm not actually a SJW so I can use the r-word.

I'm going to say this every time it comes up.

I don't really have much of an opinion about Anita Sarkeesian as a critic, but I'm convinced that practically everyone who's complaining misunderstands her premise, and that's easy to do, especially on the internet, where there's rarely a distinction between criticism and trashing, either in perception or reality.

She's not saying what everybody thinks she's saying. She not using sexist tropes to say that a work is sexist. She's talking about the tropes themselves.



This article is key. You don't have to agree with it, but if you don't understand AnitaSarkeesian's work on its own terms, you don't understand it, period.

http://tinyurl.com/m2fabzs

>>There's a common trope of framing Sarkeesian's work as "cherry-picked", as she takes isolated examples from many games and presents them as a stream of misogyny in order to create the illusion that all of these games are entirely misogynist, the entire way through. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is Sarkeesian is doing with TvsWVG, and what cultural criticism in general is. These are tropes - they're fragments of a whole. By definition they don't make up the entirety of a work of art by themselves, but are instead definable cultural touchstones which artists, writers, developers etc, can use when creating a fictional reality.

>>In other words, Anita Sarkeesian only presents sections of games as sexist because she's only talking about the sexist bits of games, and how, of the tropes developers choose to put in their games when designing for female characters, they frequently fall back on sexist ones. Seriously, she couldn't be clearer about this - in the introduction to the very first video she says:

>>"This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects."

Anita did scam the fuck out of lots of people more than once. Anyone still saying she didn't is either just choosing to stick their head in the sand and ignore the evidence, is a retarded white knight, or is a liar helping her further her career as a scam artist.

She made a kickstarter to fund a video series.

It got funded. (overfunded, but that's not her fault)

She produced a video series.



I'm failing to see the scam here.

Yeah what the fuck are you talking about, dairyqueenlatifah?

>>Anita did scam the fuck out of lots of people more than once. Anyone still saying she didn't is either just choosing to stick their head in the sand and ignore the evidence, is a retarded white knight, or is a liar helping her further her career as a scam artist.

Well, you make a persuasive argument, but I prefer to think of myself as a simpering momma's boy who hates himself.

"SJW" is the dumbest term. It's about as good as describing something as "Hipster"

JHM: Sarkeesian goes a bit further than objectively pointing out genre tropes from a feminist perspective.
She will take a few minutes of gameplay out of a 30 hour game and come up with something like:
"The female body is thus a piece of flesh to be objectified and toyed with, the game encourages the user to abuse and denigrate the female form for their own pleasure."

One reviewer of her work watched 40 let's play videos of the scene in question, and not a single player beat the shit out of a stripper and dragged her body around. It's not that it doesn't happen, of course it does, but she is creating such a "trope" out of thin air. It would be like taking a few scenes of Patrick Swayze dragging Jennifer Grey around the dance floor, and drawing a misogynist rape fantasy from Dirty Dancing because Swayze is blatantly manipulating Grey's physical form in an aggressive manner for his own amusement.

But Dirty Dancing is a long movie with lots of context. To make that kind of assumption is to incriminate its fans in some way, just as cherry-picking mountains from mole hills and implying Rape Eyes and Male Gaze at every turn incriminates the game player, and I think that's why so many people are naturally angry at her. "What? I'm not a misogynist. I don't want to beat up strippers." And know what, they probably aren't and they probably don't! Of course people are going to respond angrily to a distortion of an activity that they love. That's the problem with the worst critics; lacking passion for what they criticise, they sit separate from it, looking for something to dissect to the point that it fits into their overall thesis. I had teachers like this in school, and it was not a pleasant experience.

Those who are threatened by women going on their boy's turf, or who feel that games are a release from their alienation, those are the guys who are going ballistic and making the threats, because they don't know how to express their insecurities in any other way. Most people are incapable of being critical of criticism, especially if the criticism is intellectually dishonest.

http://tinyurl.com/m2fabzs

If you haven't read this. I urge it. Feminist criticism seems to be all about examining problematic aspects out of context, because if you condemn everything with sexist overtones in literature and art, what does that leave you? Feminist criticisim seems to be all about a reengineered relationship with culture, so that we can live in the world, and consume the images without being consumed by them.

There are reasons for the violent reaction other than stupidity or misogyny. People who are used to Cable News and internet rants are going to misinterpret Feminist frequency. I'd be more inclined to blame Anita for not adequately explaining this, if the violent reaction hadn't begin several months before the first video.

The hitman scene comes up again and again. One of these days I may go back and look at that, but i have no opinion. Some people think it's defensible, i'm not sure.

My point is that her message isn't that gaming is bad, gamers are bad, or even that particular games are bad. She's examining the tropes, people see the horrible images and think thats supposed to stand for the whole game.

>>"This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects."

You may not agree, and i may not agree, but there are a whole lot of things that people think she's saying that she's not saying, or at least I've never seen a real quote. Never seen her directly imply that games cause violence, or that people shouldn't enjoy games, and I've never seen her advocate censorship, or hate or anger against gamers, which is what nominal seems to think. People spend hours raging against the imaginary Anita Sarkeesian in their heads.

"That's the problem with the worst critics; lacking passion for what they criticise, they sit separate from it, looking for something to dissect to the point that it fits into their overall thesis." The typical undergraduate level paper, in a nutshell, which is basically what she does.

She dresses up a B+ Media Studies 101 level essay/powerpoint presentation that has no business being shown to anyone other than her professor/classmates. baleen already summed it up nicely with "this entire thing is so ridiculous. it's bringing out the worst and stupidest in everybody." which should have been the final thoughts anybody had on the subject 6 months ago (though here I am continuing it).

I'm still not sure how "Social Justice Warrior" is supposed to be an insult. The term sends the message, "wow, you care about people who are different from yourself and are willing to fight for them!"

You need to be a special kind of human failure to see this as a bad thing.

How willfully obtuse do people have to be to not realize what baleen just spelled out?

She even cherry picks criticism against her. Checking out her official twitter page, roughly half of the negative tweets she gets amount to "People don't hate you because they're misogynist, they hate you because you're dishonest." A third of it amounts to "god you're dumb" or "shut up". Five percent is how she needs a good dicking. Less than that and you finally get to the lazy "get raped and die" comments which I guess she's counting as credible death threats, but I see that posted here at least half a dozen times every time a FOX news pundit says something off putting so I don't see how that's different.

Seriously go through all the FOX news clips here and count the number of gang rape wishes on Megyn Kelly and Ann Coulter. You can pass it off as generic internet hate trolling (which I would totally buy), but why does it suddenly become serious business when it happens to some feminist? An antagonizing feminist who uses the exact same misinformation punditry tactics as FOX news.

I'm aware that there have been rape threats at POE, and not just toward women on Fox news. There have been rape threats directed toward Boxxy, for example. I've occasionally commented about this, and I don't like it. So I guess this is sort of exactly the same thing, except that it's been going on in a thousand forums, every day, and some of the threats were sent directly to the targets, and made of pointing of letting the target know that the sender knew the names of her family members, and there were also the bomb threat, and the calls to zoe quinn's father saying "your daughter is a whore", and maybe 1000 angry you tube videos, and the evidence of an organized attempt to spread around hurtful gossip about someone. So I guess you're right, it's exactly the same.

Baleen was pretty articulate, but what he's said has been said literally hundreds and hundreds of times over the past couple of years. Ditto with the tweets. And I guess you missed that I addressed it.

My biggest problem with the critics isn't the threats, it's the primal compulsive need to prove every word of her mouth to be dishonest, because simply disagreeing with her validates her right to an opinion. They talk about all the kickstarter money she got, as if it was a plot, ignoring the fact that she only asked for 6 thousand. "She never told us what she did with money" they say, but they're not the ones who gave her the money. She has the contact information for the donors, maybe she told THEM. She's not accountable to you, bro.

So they find an old lecture and blast it all over youtube because they think it proves something. It doesn't. The second it came out that she'd left her home because of threats, they were coming up with idiotic theories about how she'd faked the tweets. Literally, the next second, you can see it all over the internet. And then, the idiotic fake evidence.

There are answers to all of it. But bringing that up again and again does nothing. When the violent messages began months before the first video, that's pretty good reason to suspect confirmation bias.

Nominal, it makes me a little sad to think of you going through comments searching for rape threats that you think will give you some validation that you're missing. It's okay, man. Just relax.

They're just youtube videos. Extremely BORING youtube videos. I can barely stand to watch them. I don't think it's the vicious attack you think it is, but if it was, that wouldn't really matter, either. She doesn't want to take your games away, and couldn't if she did. If you want to prove that gamers aren't dicks, you don't need to gather evidence in comments sections. Just don't be a dick.

Nobody's trying to take your games away, and if they were, I would be defending your games. Somebody IS trying to take away EVERYBODY'S right to peacefully express an unpopular opinion on the internet without being harassed. That's something worth dying for.

I was actually going to end this post with a death threat, just for fun. To make a point. But there are no innocent death threats.

Xenocide: Pretty much!

Though, to be more fair than I should be, some "SJWs" can be seriously dense assholes that attack anything that moves, which dilutes their messages and their overall goals, and often has the effect of pushing people that had no opinion on the subjects into associating their annoyance with "SJW" "extremist" language and campaigns with the oppressed minorities that the "SJWs" were trying to help in the first place.

That's a failing of the human beings that let an annoying, but not malignant, activist poison their opinion of the issues they represent, though.

I'd take well-meaning but overbearing or shrill over the genuine shitheads of the world any day. Even if I think Anita Sarkeesian makes some stupid points in her videogame theory videos, I'd take her, over the people that have made it their mission to attack her, in a second.

It's not fat shaming, sheeit. It's dirty socks and coke-cans-on-the-floor shaming.

Thanks for always being there with the MRA apologetics, Nominal.

There's also nothing inherently wrong with neckbeards, the same way there's nothing inherently wrong with fedoras. But they've been ruined by guys like this.

"GUUUUYS! Stop FAT SHAMING the people I support and love."



Where are you when PoETV fat shames every fat person that shows up in a video? Fat shaming is a proud PoE tradition!

Yeah, it's weird how MRA-types (and the GamerGate people with the "notyourshield" tag) will suddenly adopt the language of SJWs when it suits them.

It would be easier to believe this whole thing wasn't an excuse to yell at images of Goldstein if it wasn't always the same 4 posters who've made careers out of finding new things to yell at who are always the ones posting this stuff.

No Anita critic has submitted an anti-Anita video in nearly a year. You're the guys who dredge this stuff up because you're only alive when hate boners are at full mast. Let it go.

As I understand it, digging up videos of pathetic self-absorbed losers is also a PoE tradition.

See;

MRAs
PUAs
Nick Bravo
TFL Bill
The fat 'fuckahs' watch guy
and like 20 others

that's not even considering the schizos.

Why don't you just watch and comment on some other video, Nominal? Everybody knows where you stand on this.

I'm against fat shaming, unless it's funny. I'm serious here. If it's not funny, it's mean.

fat

Fine, fine, fine, you can trash those jerks to death as long as you're not defending the gaming industry, or Sarky.

Define "defend".

I watched one of Anita Sarkeesian's videos, and found my agreement and disagreement was about 50/50.

But I promise you, not one of these fussy manbabies has a clue what these videos are saying, and I have a big problem with personal attacks and character assassination passing for "criticism". Never mind the threats.

Fuck you, Homer. Get a blog.

"Let this Atlas shrug."

This guy cannot be for real.

Even if he is, this swings from hilarious to just boring and pathetic pretty fast.

Also, your political analogy is dead-on. I've even seen slimy tea-party media outlets playing to the angry gamer crowd.

http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=202

That single news story explains everything that's going on here. This is a bunch of children angry that women are getting let inside their treehouse.

Oswald describes the situation flawlessly.

Speaking of Tea Party media outlets, Breitbart is starting to pander to the Gamerbabies in a big way. Recently they released a "smoking gun" which supposedly proves all the accusations against Zoe Quinn to be true. Said gun is a document which shows that some game journalists -- who may or may not have ever met or interacted with Quinn -- sometimes email each other.

For some reason the gamers are acting like this is the scoop of the century.

I gotta give you props for having the best reaction to being on the wrong side of this mess.

You are the most insufferable user in the history of this site.
Worse than La Loco, worse than THA SUGAH RAIN, worse than Caminante.
Yes, even worse than The Flu.

Man, I'm not bad enough to even get a mention?

Need to step up my game.

Ours is not to fight amongst ourselves, brothers!

Remember our purpose! Be instead merry, and join together in reading terrible autistic fan fiction!

Picture related:

http://fav.me/d7remah

Middle costume is Power Ranger Adam.

Yeah, I'm also feeling a little slighted.

I'm not sure how Homer should react when the guy who defended the UKIP (or BNP, or whatev) calls him terrible.

JHM, SolRo, I agree with you guys on some things, so youre ok in my book.

We can all be shitbirds together.

What do you not agree with me on?

Honestly, EH, like one more of these and you're dead to me. Keep it up.

Like one more of whats?

I don't like submissions like this, they make poesters upset with each other and there's nothing productive to be said on either side. That is why I choose to engage in civil disobedience.

I am sorry if I offended you, but I think a six page Power Rangers fanfic is better than a hurtful rant that demonizes one half of our userbase.

yeah I could tell why you keep doing this on certain threads, but it's no less obnoxious than the warring

I'm sorry you feel that way, That Guy. In retrospect, Power Rangers may have been a bit much; I believe only oddeye likes them. Would you prefer some Road Rovers fanfiction instead?

I can find over 155 Road Rovers fanfics! Let me know what age rating you would like, for the next time someone posts a flamebait video.

hahahha ok. How about over 18?
.... like 'mature' over 18, not 'adult' over 18.

Maybe some Moby Dick? King Lear? Invisible Man? Catch-22?

OK, how is this?

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// Freezing
// By: Unloved Pairings
// Milo's been waiting for him, out in the snow. Maybe Major Major can warm him, while he tries to warm the other's heart. Major Major & Milo.
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Hey! I know I still have another story to finish (Actually, I've barely even started it), but the lack of Catch-22 fanfics SHOCKED me! So, here you go; enjoy!
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He knocked back another shot of whiskey. It kissed his throat in a sweet, loving embrace. He wasn't supposed to be drinking on the job, really, but who would see him? He'd been holed up in his office for God-knows-how-long now. It was the best idea he ever had. No one was around to reject him.

He liked being alone.

Major Major Major Major had been doomed from the minute his father signed his birth certificate. He never knew it until Kindergarten, though. When he was signed up for the class, it was revealed to all that his name was not Caleb Major, as he had thought all of his short life, but Major Major Major. His poor, dear mother fell into the illness that took her life, and he himself had been dismissed by all of his classmates. Why should they trust him, if he'd been lying to them about his name all this time?

His life had been a string of bad luck since that moment. But it had been coming to him ever since his father penned the final "R" of his name onto the piece of paper that sealed his fate. He wanted to hate him, his father, but how could he? He was, after all, his father. If it weren't for that man, he would not even exist.

Though sometimes, he wished he didn't.

There was a timid knock on his door. He knew that knock anywhere. It belonged to Milo, the mess officer, dropping off his dinner.

Milo Minderbinder. The one person Major Major had actually considered a friend before he'd decided to cut himself off from the rest of the world. He felt bad about not allowing Milo to ever see him again, but he couldn't just make an exception to his new rule, could he?

He waited a while, perhaps longer than necessary, before walking over to the door to retrieve his food, once he was sure Milo had already left. But when he threw open the door, he saw, not a plate full of the usual mess hall sludge, but a young mess officer, his hair windswept; his cheeks red from the cold. Tiny flakes of frost stuck to the boy's hair, his lashes, his lips. Major Major swallowed the lump in his throat.

"Milo!"

"Major, sir." The younger male was shuddering from being in the bitter cold so long. Great. All that caution taken so that Milo wouldn't see him, and now, not only had he been seen, but the poor kid was freezing his balls off out here.

"Milo!" The older man was having trouble maintaining his composure. "Come in, will you?"

His assailant didn't waste any time following that order. He shuffled inside, rubbing his arms, blowing into his hands. The poor lad's knees were knocking. For someone who spends all his time in the mess hall, you'd think he'd be less scrawny.

The boy seemed to notice that his friend was waiting for an explanation. Gripping the older male's desk for support, he spoke sheepishly, still cold and a-trembling.

"I, uh, sir, I..." He was having trouble keeping his blush down. "It's been so long, y'know, and I... I miss you... In the mess hall, sometimes... a lot." The poor chap looked a frozen mess. The snow in his hair had melted, further adding to the illusion that Milo was a wet puppy.

In that moment, Major Major wanted nothing more than to press against that small body; than to warm him with his embrace. He tried to fool himself into thinking it was just the weeks of solitude getting to him, but he knew it was more than that. It was that smile. That laugh. It was all those times Milo stayed by his side, when the others rejected him.

"You're cold."

"Yes, sir, I am."

Major Major stepped closer to his young friend. Christ, was he really about to do this?

"S-sir?" Milo managed to stutter.

Major Major closed the distance between them, pressing his shivering young friend back against his desk, capturing those lovely lips in a kiss. Milo's body responded positively; his hands pressing to Major Major's chest, in a way that said 'more', not 'stop'. His tongue flickered over the young man's lips, and he was immediately granted access into Milo's mouth. Oh, the sounds he made.

The two pulled away for air; nothing connecting their lips but a thin string of saliva, but soon that too was broken. Milo stared longingly into the older male's eyes.

"Sir..."

"Call me Caleb."

"Caleb... that's such a nice name."

"It is, isn't it?"

The now-christened Caleb Major moved Milo's scarf away from his neck, and gently kissed the newly-exposed skin there. The younger male shivered beneath him, but he didn't think it had anything to do with the cold.

.

******Catch-22; No one is to enter the office of Major Major Major Major, unless he isn't there. Except for Milo Minderbinder.******

uncool bro

You know she sacrifices a penis to Feminist Satan every day for giving her the gift of a hysterical hate mob.

And /pol/ has Ebola-chan.

Humans are an interesting lot.

Aww...I'm sorry women scare you, TimidAres. It's OK. reddit has plenty of hugboxes for you types.

Women dont scare me, radical feminists do.
There is nothing frightening about women.

Saying something negative about a video game makes you a radical (somewhere along the line 'radical' became synonymous with 'extremist', I guess) feminist now.

Two stars for this weird monkey thing, three stars for using "misandrist" unironically.

Yes, it's those nasty radical feminists, marching in the streets with their half hour video lectures. BEWARE THE PLAID PERIL!

Nobody but the very worst fringe niche ever bought into Lord Verantani's or whatever his name is blatant opportunist cash grab. In fact I called it out as such in his last video submitted here. It's exactly what I meant when I said people like him and Anita aren't enemies; they're symbiotes. We have a brave new world of counter-counter-counter-counter crowdfunding out of spite projects to look forward to.

Anita is hardly fringe. She speaks at corporate events while sad MRA groups have to rent their own hotel conference room circle jerks and no company would ever touch them.

To say Anita's more prominent status is deserved because she's a voice for equality, acceptance, and positivity runs completely contrary to everyone's experience with Anita supporters. Right here on supposedly one of the saner corners of the web, over half the pro-Anita replies are accusing every critic of being lower than pus tea party hate group fedora virgins (an odd insult to use on behalf of a message that women aren't prizes to prove a man's worth)
who need to eat bags of fileted gamer dicks before public execution.

Anita's more prominent status is given because she's not a raging extremist.

Companies and groups have a hard time accepting speakers that spend most of their free time (literally) cursing the existence of a specific person or group.

Nominal, if you think my repeated comment about eating a bag of dicks was directed at all critics of Anita, and not to you personally, you've underestimated the depth of my feelings for you.

Anita may be more collected and subtle with her message, but its still clear, Women>Men.
Very sad that voices like hers are beginning to define modern feminism, while actually sane feminists like Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia are being demonized by thier peers for not speaking out against the narrative.

"actually sane feminists like Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia" pleeeeeeeeeeease

>>Anita may be more collected and subtle with her message, but its still clear, Women>Men.

I don't see that, but either way, who cares? You're acting like

1. It's true.
2. It's a big secret
3. She's about to let the cat out of the bag.

Christina Hoff Sommers calls herself a feminist. Glen Beck calls himself a moderate. Fox News calls itself balanced.

You're probably not actually stupid enough to believe she's actually what she says she is. You're just that desperate for someone to repeat your opinions back to you. Someone who looks and sounds credible and isn't a human trainwreck whose life revolves around his Xbox achievement score, I mean.

Aren't you the guy from 4chan who recently went on a racist tirade about how brown people immigrating to the UK would destroy British (ie white) culture? You're basically an idiot.

Go ahead, cite me anything Anita has said that implies she thinks women are better than men or that she's a radical feminist. Do it.

TimidAres, she's only "subtle" in the game videos. Her other pop culture videos and tumblr are where the true hostile crazy shines through. Did you know the song "Santa Baby" is a tool by the patriarchy to keep women dependent on men for shallow favors and gifts? Stay tuned for her upcoming project where she reveals that the movie Alien was sexist all along!

No really, that's her next project.

Still waiting, you dim coward.

Yes when you pay a person to do a thing and then they do that thing, that is not a scam. Even if that thing really hurt your feelings about vidya games.

Still don't understand the robo-monkey thing.

It's someone's online avatar personality thing for their channel, apparently.

Kind of a good idea if you don't want your face all over the internet and getting docx'd by raging weblords.

Anita's not a scam artist. She's a pundit. Her critiques and videos are lifted straight out of the FOX news playbook. Her Hitman video calling it a reward system for misogynist necrophilia was no different from FOX news calling Mass Effect a sex simulator. Once you've painted a group negatively with gross misinformation, it's easy to cherry pick only the most hateful replies in order to feign shock and claim the problem is worst than you thought. It's a routine done over and over and over again by the Right and it's sad to the progressive's base adopting it.

It's punditry to reaffirm peoples' reactionary attitudes. It isn't calling for a roundtable presentation of ideas to reach common grounds and mutual understanding to improve things, it's people who have always had chips on their shoulders given superficially progressive permission to fling shit because flinging shit feels good.

>>Once you've painted a group negatively with gross misinformation, it's easy to cherry pick only the most hateful replies in order to feign shock and claim the problem is worst than you thought. It's a routine done over and over and over again by the Right and it's sad to the progressive's base adopting it.

See, now you're playing the victim, persecuted by academic criticism-- and how much cherry picking do you think it takes to get to the really hateful responses?

Your assumption is that criticism of a trope extends to the work as a whole, and by extension to the audience. That's how thinks work on Fox News, it's now how cultural criticism works.

Nobody hates you for liking video games. It's because you're a dick.

Nobody accuses feminist literary critics of hating books because people who read books aren't as stupid as people who play video games

Yes, I think that's where I was going with this.

WAIT NO NO NO that's not necessarily true. There are better ways of understanding these things than big concepts like stupidity and misogyny. It's easy to forget that. They're not stupid, and they're not cartoons.

Games really have been under attack before. They've been telling themselves scary campfire stories about feminists for years, because hucksters like thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist make money cranking out clickbait. And the internet isn't used to this kind of nuanced criticism. And like I said, it's about adolescent identification. I'm not going to tell you the embarrassing shit i was into when I was 19.

Counterpoint; they are actually stupid.

Not exactly a rhetorical question, mind you, because I'm not going to try and watch this.

TLDR version;

Fat slob lays on couch complaining about how horribly he gets attacked on the Internet just for horribly attacking a specific woman on the internet. Also complains about how ,000 isn't motivating him enough BUT HE'LL SOLDIER ON!!

Also there's a talking monkey

How do so many people not realize the Bechdel test came from a comic that was making fun of how arbitrary and inaccurate said test's guidelines are?

I think most of us realized that, we just thought we'd give you the chance to show off your knowledge.

http://lordrexfear.livejournal.com/

Updates end quite abruptly, following some rather dark drug experiences. My guess is "dead".

"The Flintstones knew that THE WAGE GAP IS A MYTH HERE IS A LINK TO MY MGTOW BLOG WHICH PROVES IT."

Okay, and there are hundreds of 4th wave tumblr feminist responses that rival Valerie Solanas for crazy hostility if you want to play the game of defining a stance based on its very craziest supporters. When you strawman the other side like that then say that "all Anita did was make a nice little video on sexism in game to help people", well, at least it made me go look up what an iron man fallacy was.

I don't really need to strawman on Aurini's ass. He strawmans himself.

Okay, I have no experience with the Twitter, but this sounds like a fun new game.

Make account, retweet messages by people I hate, put #gamergate tag in it to sic angry robot hate mob on whatever I want.

I have to design an experiment for this, try and make a prediction so I wont feel like a jerk just doing it for kicks (lots of kicks).

There is a whole untapped nonsentient lynch mob for grabs here, it should be mine. That would make it good.

Stars for this.

#gamersareterrorists

If a woman made that threat everyone would have praised her! #notyourshield

Well gee! That level-headed, neutral intellectualism certainly doesn't seem redundant at all now! Hope you had a fun time, Nominal, because I don't see any reason to humanize a bunch of people who would go to this level in a world that has already taken the concept of identity to a ridiculous point to manifest gender and sexuality oriented phobias and still continue to pursue these ideologies in a grasp to feel and/or seem normal to a degree that any such attack/abrasive/cynicism is an outright abomination and danger to their living, breathing life.

I'm so sorry that in a world where standard, day-to-day journalism that would be meant to give local, national and international news and events has decayed into advertisements, sidestepping and the hope that everyone who paid attention stays loyally to their news pages; that the last bastion of integrity journalism will ultimately rate Pokémon 9 with an 8 out of 10 rather than it's deserving rating of 6 out of 10 has been successfully ruined by a philanthropist with a vagina agenda

Thanks?

I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say, Joe.

And the best, too. Like the internet, I guess.

I may have mentioned that my son is a gamer. Besides being transgendered, he's been in a wheelchair most of his life, but in WOW, he's a goddamn monkey.