No, I would prefer people keep their dirty laundry to themselves instead of posting it on the Internet regardless of gender. Though I strongly suspect that if the genders were reversed but every other fact were the same, the conversation would not have been about ethical journalism, but about whether the five women…

It makes her someone who had her personal business outed on the Internet by an asshole. And it takes other assholes to see someone else's failed relationship and say "hey, let's all get involved in that to take out our aggression about our First World Problems".

It also takes two minutes to understand that the originating event behind all of this was some jilted ex's sleazy gossip, but instead of saying "this is none of my business" and running away from it or (even better) directing their scorn at the party who aired his dirty laundry in public, a bunch of Internet…

GamerGate is like a guy who jumps into a septic tank and finds a quarter — all he wants to talk about is how rich he is, while the rest of us are mortified by the fact that he's covered in someone else's shit.

Given that Aussie football is basically a prison riot with a ball thrown in the middle, this is nothing.

You wouldn't see Mr. Starwood Preferred acting that way...

The Face That Carved A Thousand Jack-o-Lanterns.

This is outstanding. I used to play this back in the day, but couldn't remember the name of it (I know... I'm an idiot). I'll have to pick this up.

So you CHOSE to take something personally that wasn't meant to be a criticism of anyone except the maladjusted man-children themselves. Or AT WORST, it was a generalization meant to show how this looks to people outside gaming — including potential new customers (more gamers = more money = rising tide that raises all…

I don't mind a conversation on "ethical journalism" in games (my pet peeve was when IGN let Jessica Chobot continue to pimp Mass Effect 3 even while her voice and likeness appeared in-game as an NPC) and I don't mind thoughtful critique of Anita Sarkeesian's work (pulling one scene out of a 20+ hour game and treating…

I've had to wrestle with some of these same questions as I've raised my son up to an age where he starts to want to play some of these games. In setting lines for him, it's forced me to really think about why I think some things are OK and others aren't. If I decide he can't play a game, I want to have a reason I can…

More like "GamerGaters leap all over jilted ex's sleazy gossip, turn it into a movement'", yet while piling on this crap, not ONCE have I heard a GG'er (for example) question whether Bungie rolled a dump-truck full of money down the street to get all the fawning Destiny coverage. There's only a certain type of…

GET HIM A BODY BAG! YEAAAAAAAHHHH!

I'd add that with Redbox and Gamefly offering "try-before-you-buy" and a lot of gamers being comfortable with the morally gray practice of buying a game, trying it, and returning it if they don't like it, acting like they need an independent press to tell them whether to drop their $60 seems a little disingenuous.

Holy False Equivalence, Batman!

Right now, these aren't two equal ideas competing for resources; death and rape threats are something that flat-out needs to stop for constructive conversation to even take place. And if it's really only 1% of the gamer community doing it, then more of the other 99% ought to get off…

"Ignore or ridicule" is one thing. But if you support (or even try to rationalize) death and rape threats against a woman for voicing her opinion... that's pretty much the definition of a misogynist. Though "chicken-shit coward" works as well.

Perhaps he can feud with "The Excellence of Execution", Aaron Hernandez.

Part of what's most troubling is that all of this occurred in a post-Sandusky world. So clearly that whole message about not covering up crimes really got through.

I'm not saying I agree with the rule, but I would imagine the rationale would be to close down an avenue for a player to potentially be paid under the table by the school. Theoretically, a bunch of boosters could host a transparently-fake signing (or a real signing but ones where certain boosters pay WAY above sane…

A phone, you say?