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I don't care who they market games to; what I do care about is someone calling me a 'child' for enjoying some boobs.

Truly the standards have dropped low when a screenshot and 5 words (FIVE ENTIRE WORDS) constitutes "favorable coverage". Have you looked into whether he slept with the developer of Tangiers? He devoted 4 words to that game and even lauded as usurping Thief. Can't count out Treasure Adventure World. That got 5 words as…

Read again. There is no conflict of interest "in this case."

Let's try to get to the core of the matter: What you're saying is that games should be marketed to women,

You've got to love all of these noble crusaders fighting the good fight behind screen names and avatars or even just "Anonymous." They're so brave for standing up for what they believe in!

Modification: "to a somewhat narrower group of gamers who believe women should be punished for having sex [with men other than them]."

Jack Thompson wanted to censor video games. Anita Sarkeesian wants video games to be more thoughtful. The two are nothing alike.

Great job Kyle, that was a really good article. Best I've read yet about the nonsense that is #gamergate. I just wish Adam Baldwin would stop. Proudly wearing his ignorance makes repeat viewings of Firefly slightly less enjoyable.

Well said. I liked this point:

I really do miss the days when the greatest issues facing video games, and those who play and enjoy them, were Jack Thompson and some bad Uwe Boll films. We were so incredibly innocent, and quite a bit happier too.

But Thompson wanted to restrict video games legally. She is just critiquing them for sexism, like thousands of people do for books and movies everyday. And I'm pretty sure Thompson didn't have a sustained campaign of harassment thrown at him, but then again the internet was younger then and gamers are more horrible…

The dude wrote a multi-page wankfest designed to ruin his ex's name and spammed it to tons of message boards until people finally took notice and attacked his ex. He deserves everything he gets. So what if your ex was horrible, unless they did something criminal to you, you don't solicit the internet in an attempt to…

The death of the gaming industry won't be the games or the developers, it'll be the fans that cause it.

While I agree with mostly everyone down here that this Gamergate "movement" is beyond me in terms of "Wait...we're talking about videogames?" What I can seem understand is how a bunch of loud, naive, immature, anonymous, teenage males can scream so hard on the internet that shit actually moves in their favor. I can…

I'm a 29 year old long time gamer, and maybe I live under a rock, but this is the first time I've heard of #gamergate. What a nightmare man. Just enjoy games. Or don't. These guys slut-shaming female developers and harassing games journalists are missing a crucial part of being human or something. Awesomely…

you know how the gop only ever really cared about balancing the budget once a black man became president? that's pretty much what gamergate is. gamers only really cared about ethics in game journalism, something that has been laughable and terrible since the inception of vidja games, once women became more represented…

Solid exposition and analysis.

Apparently, having a vagina and a voice is a good first step.

Man, Adam Baldwin is really trying to be the worst Baldwin brother. Doesn't he realize he's not even eligible?