Same. Remember that flash game they made where they could click on Anita Sarkeesian's face and it blackened and blued and bulged out where you clicked? It was essentially a wife beating simulator and it was disgusting as fuck and they were rejoicing over it like they'd created art.
All because she had the temerity to point out that many videogames treated women like trophies and not like real people. Any man could have pointed that out and they'd have gotten equally mad but because a woman said it they decided to double down and be play up their misogyny as if that was anything but proving her fucking point.
Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."
Not only that, but if you've ever had the misfortune of seeing those r/offmychest r/trueforrealzoffmychest and r/changemyiew garbage subs, the nazis on reddit act like their ideology is no different than a mainstream ideology. Like we should just coexist with people who want half the country dead, as if it's the difference between me liking oranges and they liking apples. It's insane, and reddit fucking loves the debate bro shit and also act like oh we can just have a friendly discussion about this shit and agree to disagree.
And that movement was deliberately sculpted and encouraged by powerful people. Gamergate was Astro-turfed by Steve Bannon to act as a pipeline to the right.
Yeah, the whole "movement" against Pao was pretty much just motivated by Gamergate-level sexism and racism.
Still baffles me that there are nazis out there whos starting point for his descent to madness is "women in video games".
Same. Remember that flash game they made where they could click on Anita Sarkeesian's face and it blackened and blued and bulged out where you clicked? It was essentially a wife beating simulator and it was disgusting as fuck and they were rejoicing over it like they'd created art.
All because she had the temerity to point out that many videogames treated women like trophies and not like real people. Any man could have pointed that out and they'd have gotten equally mad but because a woman said it they decided to double down and be play up their misogyny as if that was anything but proving her fucking point.
Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."
Not only that, but if you've ever had the misfortune of seeing those r/offmychest r/trueforrealzoffmychest and r/changemyiew garbage subs, the nazis on reddit act like their ideology is no different than a mainstream ideology. Like we should just coexist with people who want half the country dead, as if it's the difference between me liking oranges and they liking apples. It's insane, and reddit fucking loves the debate bro shit and also act like oh we can just have a friendly discussion about this shit and agree to disagree.
And that movement was deliberately sculpted and encouraged by powerful people. Gamergate was Astro-turfed by Steve Bannon to act as a pipeline to the right.
That’s so clever, the left is fucked.