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I am not the world's biggest fan of Christianity, but you know what those folks generally don't do? Get super defensive about groups like the Westboro Baptist Church at the expense of the WBC's victims. There is no widespread NotAllChristians hashtag; the general consensus is that 1. Those people are horrible and 2. They should not be allowed in the Yay Jesus club because they are horrible and therefore do not represent the group's core values. WBC is categorically denounced by basically everyone.
When nerdbros say #NotAllGamers in relation to the rampant misogyny found in the gaming community (see *spit* "Gamer Gate"), they're not just absolving themselves of any responsibility to actually think or care about what is happening to the women who work in the industry they claim to love. They're also implicitly acknowledging the legitimacy of the same people they're so anxious to distance themselves from. They're saying "I'm not like those guys who threaten to rape and kill Anita Sarkeesian on a daily basis or committed actual no-shit terrorist acts by "doxxing" Zoe Quinn and Phil Fish... but of course they're still Gamers. They still have a place at the table."
It's kind of hard to see the obvious differences between the good Gamers and the bad ones from the vantage point of the kiddie table, sitting on a broken lawn chair that still has spiderwebs hanging on it from the garage, when all I see is a bunch of guys toasting each other with the good crystal.
When nerdbros say #NotAllGamers in relation to the rampant misogyny found in the gaming community (see *spit* "Gamer Gate"), they're not just absolving themselves of any responsibility to actually think or care about what is happening to the women who work in the industry they claim to love. They're also implicitly acknowledging the legitimacy of the same people they're so anxious to distance themselves from. They're saying "I'm not like those guys who threaten to rape and kill Anita Sarkeesian on a daily basis or committed actual no-shit terrorist acts by "doxxing" Zoe Quinn and Phil Fish... but of course they're still Gamers. They still have a place at the table."
It's kind of hard to see the obvious differences between the good Gamers and the bad ones from the vantage point of the kiddie table, sitting on a broken lawn chair that still has spiderwebs hanging on it from the garage, when all I see is a bunch of guys toasting each other with the good crystal.