I suspect the whole thing is just a proxy of the greater Left-Right conflict raging in American politics. As you right point out, the media's biases are more transparent than they likely believe.

It certainly is a refreshing change, and I think if it happened more often, a lot of the chaffing could/would be blunted.

That's part of the problem.

Here's a tip: Help them out by recognizing that the group is not homogenous (kinda like feminism) and if you'd stop blaming the entirety of them for the actions of a few cretins bent on hijacking the narrative, I bet you'd find them more receptive to meaningful conversation.

Then I tip my hat to you, sir, and recognize that you're one of the good ones.

Nice throwaway account. ;)

So what you're saying is that this is all just a cover for Left vs Right?

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.

As well-intentioned as you might be, your wishes for this to simply "be over" are ruined by virtue of your call for peace being a non-starter; you don't get to say you're tired of the whole thing and then in the same breath, resort to the tired straw-man which continues to perpetuate the argument.

You're assuming the person who sent that threat identifies as a GG'er. I haven't seen the threat, but I've read that it has since been proven to not be credible—and despite the school seeing no reason to postpone or cancel the event, Sarkeesian did so herself. That's her choice and she shouldn't be faulted for it, but…

Need to watch it now.

I've never looked forward to one of these as much as I do this one. My loins tingle with anticipation.

It's a massive strawman for sure, but it's being used by both sides.

Heh. Funny and insightful. Thanks for the reply!

Couldn't the same be said about feminism? Yet no one seems to have trouble distinguishing the moderates from the radicals there, do they?

I'm not a GG'er, but I would identify myself as having more in common—ideologically—with their camp than the other. It doesn't take much to find where the GG movement has directly or indirectly sparked calls to positive action. Here's just one:

Precisely my point. What we need is a call to end the hyperbole and rhetoric. Both sides have something valuable to say, but they're both losing the opportunity to say it because they're being goaded into this mind-numbingly stupid poo-slinging contest by the media.

Because why have a conversation about the issue when you can distill your opponents down to caricatures which completely distort the truth, right?

I figured as much, as I basically said the same thing (more or less that using language like "war on women" is unworthy of the community and further divides the conversation). It seemed that most of the sentiments shared were of like mind and I can only imagine that when the narrative wasn't shaping the way they'd…

I'm curious: What did you say in the comments of that article?