Well, here it is. The New Culture War of the 21st Century. Damn You All.

[evildevil]

The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate

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[blackjedii]

I can't help just groaning at Gamergate, not the least of which is that I'm sick of anything with -gate at the end of it. It's got people who think their opinions are the MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, people who think it's a genuine crusade, and people who have no idea what's going on. The thing of it is unless it translates into actual political or non-Internet social activism (which it's not)... it's just a lot of people shouting into a circlejerk echo chamber. It's not even going to have an effect on the larger video game industry I don't think.

The articles about it and what they've chosen to report has been equally strange to me. No one - NO ONE - deserves harassment or threats but it kind of fascinates me how quickly the fact that Zoe Quinn was using some serious emotional abuse and gaslighting (which was what Gjonji was trying to show with the logs) was glossed over into "airing dirty laundry by a bitter ex." Not that I want to know about their relationship but it just kind of strikes me as assigning roles for quick soundbytes

[hinoema]

No one - NO ONE - deserves harassment or threats but

Why is it that whenever I see a 'but', I just know the poster is going to directly negate whatever they just claimed? No one deserves harassment or threats, but here's why she probably deserved it. No, 'no one' means 'no one'. Stop before you 'but' yourself.

[blackjedii]

Erm, no. Thanks for putting words in my mouth by the way. No one deserves anything. If anything just reading what I did I feel like both parties need some help and a good therapist but that needs to be done well away from the blogosphere where they have privacy and feel safe

[idemandjustice]

As a rule, I always immediately stop reading when I get to a "but."

[kittymink]

Same here.

[amyura]

Thirded.

[bethan_b_bad]

Fourthed.