So you post two different articles, about the same, single female representative namedropping GamerGate while speaking out against sexist online harassment, as proof of Congress’ “rapid” response...and I’m not supposed to see you as a GamerGate troll? Seems legit.

No, I believe you’re one of these people: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/… because of your refusal of the facts, and misrepresentations of the reasonable responses of people of color (and presumanly white allies) who care about racism and sexism AND the intersection of the two. All that makes you seem like a…

We can be outraged by more than one thing at a time, you know.

Honestly I’m starting to think you’re a white male gamergater setting up one of those fake black man or fake black women accounts to try to create a wedge in the feminist community, because not only is it factually incorrect that these women have been harassed for only one year, revenge porn has been going on for many…

HAPPY STORY TIME!

Because they get provisional male privilege. As long as they don't step out of line.

they were just setting up for a Real Scotsman argument—no matter what the other person responded, they would say “that’s not real harassment—REAL harassment is when...”

Ignoring misogyny won't do anything to end racism.

Anita Sarkeesian is of middle-eastern descent. She is a woman of color and she gets racist as well as sexist hate from her harassers. It is true that black women, even more so than other non-white women (and white women) get more harassment and less support, and that fucking matters and we need to talk about it. I…

This is all the more hilarious because honestly Oliver kind of soft-pedaled the gender aspect here. The vast majority of his statements were phrased as people being shitbags to other [non-gender-specific] people on the internet. He mentioned online harassment of women specifically a few times and his examples were all…

I think there’s a lot of people who would agree with you about the comparable severity of both issues. I agree that black people living under an Orwellian police state is worse than online harassment. But we can’t just not act upon certain problems just because they’re not at the top of the problem hierarchy. And it’s…

Internalized misogyny is sadly a thing. If you’re raised to believe you’re lesser, treated like you’re lesser for years from family, friends, and partners, often it sinks into your heart and you start to believe it. I bet other women can talk about their experiences with this better than I can.

And the sole reason women have fared better in this Depression, is because we're paid less.

uh, why would we need to choose one or the other to worry about? Both are causes that should be of concern. I hate when people make arguments this way- you don’t need to de-ligitamize one thing to ligitamize a different, unrelated thing.

I agree with you, but only up until the point where it’s one OR the other.

I think this is a very AND situation (and based on Gawker’s coverage of skyrocketing rates of extra-judicial murder of PoC by the police in America - and Oliver’s, too -
I’d say they’re not doing a bad job of covering both items at once). It’s…

They don’t exist in the wild. In the wild, people are too scary to harass. They only exist on nice, safe, anonymous internet sanctuaries.

Isn’t there an internet law about how the comments on an article about feminism prove the need for feminism?

I am so grateful I’ve never encountered one of these Gamergate people in the wild. I don’t think I would be able to contain my contempt, and I think I would resort to some hateful takedowns, just to make them cry. It would not bring out the best in me.

LOL gamergaters. It was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something amazing has happened.