GamerGate and Diversity

[jimhines]

A week or two back, some GamerGate folks put together the following graphic to try to prove … something. I think this was meant to go along with #NotYourShield, and to show that GamerGate is inclusive and diverse and so on, whereas four of the people who have spoken out against GamerGate are white men. So there!

Comments

[lenora_rose]

Also, any realistic shot of anti-gamergate proponents should include Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu (and possibly Frank?), and Felicia Day to be remotely accurate. Of course, even if one didn't do that, I'm pretty sure a *random* sampling of GamerGaters would be wildly male and mostly white, and a random sampling of anti-gamergaters would be more mixed.

To say both sides of the first graphic are remarkably cherry picked is to understate.

[tzaddi_93]

Not to mention a whole slew of feminist bloggers who have been posting about this since before it was termed "Gamer Gate."

This also disappears the fact that any woman who speaks up is risking being doxxed and threatened with rape and death in retaliation. The prominent white men speaking up are taking some flak for it from GG'ers, but not anywhere near the level that women are.

[lenora_rose]

Well, yes, but if they wanted THIS graphic to focus entirely on demographic representation, as they will claim they do despite the troll below, they would claim the death threats and doxxing, and their suspiciously focused targets are irrelevant. I can't really think they are since they're the core of the thing, but I could anticipate the twisted logic.

[jimhines]

Find somewhere else to troll.

[lenora_rose]

Thanks, Jim.

[lenora_rose]

Thinking about this a bit more, I find it revealing that the only comment I've seen trolled yet either on your LJ post of this or on this post on your own site, is the only one to mention the Names of Power in GG -- because of course the gist of his claim is that it's NOT about attacking these women.