So let me get this straight: gamer dudes freak out that a guy in game acts like a stalker but women shouldn't when a guy acts like that IRL.

Hi! Female programmer and long time gamer here! I've been playing games longer than you've been alive, you hypocritical, lying, misogynist, narcissist who is somehow under the grossly mistaken impression that when women call you creepy it's because you aren't handsome.

It's clear that he's not involved in the BDSM community, not just because he doesn't get it, but because guys like him get bad reputations and we'd be at a higher accuser count. Many women use kink as therapy for rape trauma and women involved with BDSM learn to discuss things like that very clearly in advance.

And at the end of a week of having that done every day. And at the end of a year of having that done every day. And after 20 years of having that done every day.

I got it in Italy when I was 12 and even though many of the guys were handsome and I would have considered it complimentary at the time if they had been my age (because it was new to me), it creeped me out even then.

when is it ok to approach a woman and when is it not?

It's not like he watched the video. Men as awesome as he is have factual opinions and have no need to be informed. Because factual.

No, not greeting me in a friendly manner; hitting on me despite my body language telling you that I don't want to talk to you. You really need to learn to stop harassing women.

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I'm going to keep meeting my dates at the LGBT owned/friendly BSDM coffee shop for games. If they can make it past that, they'll be doing good. No one cares if I am there with a new guy every night; they'd probably be happy for me.

I'm averaging 10 messages to me per week that get sent to the no bin by a filter set to eliminate all people with a match percentage less than 80%. And I'm fat.

There is some scariness about hemorrhagic fevers and "I read that book outbreak or whatever." But yes, "Ebola is the scaaaaaaaaary brown people disease," is totally accurate. I saw someone comment on a vacation photo to not hang out with any West Africans while in Cancun. Because, you know, they're forced to wear…

But subs and doms are actual things that actual women care about in dating. Alpha and beta are PUA terms that I have never heard a woman use.

It doesn't matter if you believe it's an empty threat. Gamers need to stop randomly threatening people because they didn't get their way.

There is a "crystal clear ice cube" fad with hoity toity people lately. Anyway, what they mean is that the boiled purified water and then stuck it in the freezer so that it would look pretty in the glass. I had a friend who felt the need to science up that bitch and try it at home. Not worth it.

The sides are not equal and one side has been impersonated to make threats or made threats in retaliation for threats, doxxed in retaliation for doxxing. You guys started it, You don't get to start it and then whine when you get 1/100th of what you dish out that "both sides do it." You did it first. You did it worst.…

Guess what? Women are 51% of the population and we know that this is about representation of women in games, which you believe should adhere to only your tastes. Every time that you harass an advertiser for supporting the targets of your harassment and that advertiser leaves, they will harm their business. By pulling…

What, precisely, is the bigger picture than equality for women and minorities? Game reviews? The existence of games that don't appeal to you?

Yeah, isn't it terrible when women get pissed off and talk about how angry they are they they are being harassed and doxxed and threatened out of their homes, behavior that they engage in at a much smaller rate than is done to them but is actually warranted? Because the best solution when people try to harass you off…

That's why the wikipedia entry on those ants has a disambiguation link to #GamerGate.