The whole hobby was a clubhouse for disaffected young white dudes,

There's been a lot of work in social sciences that suggests that when the dominant group starts to see disadvantaged/underserved/underprivileged/etc. groups gaining ground toward equality, they feel like they're losing something. They actually feel like things are being taken away from them - it doesn't feel like…

I'm guessing you are unaware of what the actual words: pseudo, data, and surveys mean.

GamerGate: Because "We're trying to viciously bully a woman into committing suicide because she's a woman" is bad PR, so we're going with "We're trying to viciously bully a woman into committing suicide for important ethical reasons" instead!

BUT SOME OF THEM AREN'T WHITE THEY ARE SUPER INCLUSIVE AS LONG AS YOU HATE WOMEN AND ARE RACIST SOMETIMES

Back up. Don't you dare say "gamers are under siege" as if you speak for all of us. Most of us are grown-up enough not to be threatened by women. But GamerGate represents a vocal minority who respond by saying horrible, misogynistic crap. And frankly, when that is what you are about (and that IS what GamerGate is all…

THAT IS WHAT I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT. I am a gamer, I play games all the fucking time. What is their deal? Wouldn't they want to counter the cliché that they are spotty, unsocialized, women-hating mouth breathers? Because they are doing a great job of reinforcing it with this gamergate shit.

Yes, clearly there is only one way in the world to respond to terrorist threats.

"This anonymous (and typical) member of #Gamergate uses descriptors such as "ugly, acne-ridden" and "basement dwelling" to characterize how the rest of the world views other #Gamergate members. By deprecating the entire community under the guise of using "the enemy's words," they unite the entire group, and recruit…

She isn't declaring her own neutrality, but rather the neutrality of the process. Academic vetting of survey-based research methods is intense and frustratingly exacting. It is a solid bulwark about claims against the construction of her research design and is not offered as a direct defense of her analysis of…

terrorism

So....you have an issue with the author explaining their scientific methodology and how it differs from the GG asswipes?

As I said to some friends while discussing it: 1) Why would you ever let Adam Baldwin name your "movement" if you'd spent five minutes seeing what a pile of garbage he spews on twitter? 2) It's never been about ethics; it's always been about rallying around a guy who decided he needed to "get his feelings out" by…

It's actually worse than Zoe Quinn being the bridge too far. They're still largely ignoring the actually corruption between game news sites and the AAA studios and publishers, and targeting (almost exclusively) indie devs and individual reporters. (Almost everyone they target is either female or a man who they think…

Just shut up. It is SO tiring to hear this defense of GamerGate. GamerGate is not some heroic defense of a lifestyle and valiant charge against ethical issues in reporting. It's a bunch of boys scared by women with a voice. And they respond to being scared by spewing out some of the most vile misogynistic crap I have…

They're afraid of women for sure but deeper down lies a fear of losing their privilege.

A lot of things.

sunlight, women, cardio...

what exactly is the "feminist agenda"? To let women participate in the development process without being threatened with rape?

What's ridiculous is that gaming journalism has needed reform from fucking day one. I can't remember how long ago it was that Ubisoft stopped letting EGM have its games early because of a bad Assassin's Creed review.