And I’d also argue that you are fudging the timeline. The “Quinspiracy” is what started this whole thing. The very original complaint was an act of slut-shaming from the get go. If that wasn’t true, there would have been an equal amount of vitriol towards all parties involved. But that's not what happened is it?

“This guy is being mean to me. I guess I’ll just keep believing the crap I’m making up and go back to punching puppies in the face.”

Her critiques aren’t based on ethics, they are an examination of tropes, which is very different. She’s examining storytelling devices which is interesting to someone like myself whom enjoys discussing the various aspects of storytelling. Ultimately she proposes new and interesting narrative challenges.

What a stupid comment. Grow up.

It’s hard to take you seriously when you refer to Anita Sarkeesian and the money she raised. The value of her work may be subjective and you may not find it worthwhile, but I do. She has some legitimate critiques that I’m hoping will put an end to tropes that if they aren’t sexist are at the very least tired.

Telling someone they don’t get to be a rude asshat isn’t censorship. Not even close.

Sounds like your blood boils way too easily then, no offense.

If GamerGate were actually about ethics in journalism, they would not be actively trying to destroy Kotaku — a site that refuses press junkets, regularly pisses off game publishers through aggressive journalism, and is just about as transparent as any gaming site can be — they’d be going after Metacritic and exclusive…

Heh. Here in America, people forget that “free speech” is really “the freedom from the government restricting your speech in certain circumstances.” Even if this had been here in the good ol’ US of A, a convention is not the government. They can tell anyone they want to shut up.

Or, equality for everyone who doesn’t intend to interrupt exposition proceedings for the sake of it.

Nothing shocknig though. These people use the same bulshit non-starter argument the “persecuted Christian” movement has been using. And of course the pull from the exact same demographic.

They weren’t asked to leave because they have different views. They were asked to leave for disrupting discussion panels.

Nice false quote you got there bucko.

It’s funny how GG is trying to spin it as “different political opinions are banned!” or “Leftists kick girl gamers out! Misogyny!”

You can't argue with people like that. They think they're all hardass super-spies who are going to be able to pull out their guns and take someone out before their hapless attacker has time to react. It's like, ok Jason Bourne, calm your dad-jeans. There's no way they're going to end up dead because the person with…

"No, I'm prepared to defend myself and those around me"

Well, don't you have a small pee-pee.

There is an old saying…"The straw that broke the camel's back." I think that applies here.

And then you'd get to let Oisin "fix" the cars the Clarkson way, with a hammer.