I'm almost certain the reason the word is winning is exactly because of people who use the word and don't know what it means, or think its something you can wear as a shield while you engage in liberal bullying, or take it away from someone because they don't fit with what their definition of said label means.

You know, they wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

If you're going to reply, try not being a coward with such a dismissive retort and try to have a discussion.

Typical jezebel level discourse. If you can't address somebodies point intelligently just make a flippant and demeaning remark, maybe add some stupid gifs and declare victory.

Wow hun, way to be a cunt.

Actually I think that when so many people — many women — have an issue with a term, even when we are well aware of what feminism entails, maybe the term itself could stand for some reconsideration. I feel like the term has lost all meaning in a lot of ways: Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist, Sasha Grey calls…

"Many of them have been caught in the cogs of the Greenlight machine for months, with no sign of movement. "

Some people might argue Greenlight is doing exactly is what it's supposed to be doing.

Oh look, indie devs acting in a shady way and trying to game systems for each others benefits rather than acting within the existing rules of a system intended to help them out which had never existed before.

And if it was actually about ethics in video game journalism, it would have started a long time before Zoe Quinn made an indie game for a novel concept.

It also takes two minutes to understand that the originating event behind all of this was some jilted ex's sleazy gossip,

How do you know who the majority of Gamergate is?

I have had stalkers and restraining orders issued in the past, I have had people show up on my doorstep when my personal information was HARD to get. To have my location revealed to the world would give a entry point for a few mentally ill people who have fixated on me, and allow them to show up and make good on the…

Really Stephen? "They've received their own harassment, they've told me" is the only mention I found on Kotaku about the harassment against pro-GGers. It's this kind of incredible media slant that has tarnished Kotaku's (and a number of other gaming sites) reputation in my eyes. Now, I'm no in favor of GamerGate. I am…

I believe a lot of the push to contact Gawker's advertisers are related to Sam Biddle's unfortunate tweets on bullying that nobody from Gawker is taking proper responsibility for. Do you guys not have a proper PR department? Joking intentions or not, they were highly unprofessional, especially considering the…

The media has some of the blame to share; their insistence of demonizing the entire movement (as opposed to, say, singling out the trolls attempting to capitalize on the angst) only perpetuated more of the bad behavior.

Stop using Bing.

Actually, my girlfriend used to have to watch stuff like that (we are UK too) because she worked for an advertising company and they got them to transcribe any adverts they saw (for a searchable database that competitors could pay to use). And yeah, I get so bored of the nagging wife/stupid husband routine that you…

Thanks for that Lemming. I had come across the idea that San Fran was particularly rife with "that" kind of feminists before. I heard New York is pretty bad too. I suppose it is a really big country with 50 of what basically amounts to sub countries with their own laws and so on, so it kind of makes sense that…

This. Exactly.

My biggest problem has come in the last year+, where there has Been a decided and seemingly agreed upon shift toward opinion/activist journalism across a few sites. Certain social theory and points of view are offered up as hard fact, and there have been a few efforts directed at individuals that have come across as…