Read this: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/20…

It's a video game! How is a character being gay any more "artificial" than a character being straight?

I really think you need to read this: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/20… and then get back to me with all your #NOTRUESCOTSMAN BS

Ugh this whole thing makes me so mad because it gives asshole racists an excuse to say people are playing the race card and all that comes with that. According to the police (and yes, that's a big IF) multiple people saw them fucking in their car and called to complain. If they were just fucking in public and she…

Commenting on Jezebel is not the best place to express the complicated moral calculus that I go through every time I watch a Roman Polanski movie. I realize this now. Believe me I think people who use rape with quotation marks should go to hell.

God forbid a woman should lecture straight at you. That's kind of how lectures work.

Oh gurl, that's not how research works, and its definitely not how cultural criticism works. Just because there's one bad example you can cite doesn't mean the rest of her video is flawed. Why don't you take me through every example she cites and tell me how it doesn't prove her point, because even with a few iffy…

Exactly, and if people want to discuss things happening in gaming culture, or how its a common trope for many videogames to feature casual misogyny, wholly unnecessary to gameplay they should be able to do that without fearing death threats.

Unfortunately that ship has pretty much sailed, and there are those, including many game developers, who want to at least see some games reach that level and there are those out there who want to write about games at that level. Why shouldn't they be allowed to? If gaming is going to grow as an industry (which…

There are degrees of crimes. On a scale from horrible to pure evil, Polanski raping one girl at a party is horrible and Cosby systematically drugging and serially raping women is a bit more horrific. It doesn't remotely make Polanski's behavior acceptable, but pretending like they are the same diminishes the absolute…

You still don't get it though. The media covering GamerGate is doing nothing wrong. GamerGate is incoherent and although there are those who claim affiliation to the movement that aren't doing anything wrong, there are those who claim affiliation who are doing horrible things. Fighting against articles like the Gawker…

The thing is, however, there is no clear definition of an "actual GG'er." There is no one message coming out of GG and since it is leaderless, GG becomes about pretty much whatever anyone who claims affiliation says it is. Thus the threats come from "actual GG'ers." When all your movement has to define and unify…

So that makes all of the rest of the data she cited from other games also incorrect? Pointing out one flaw in her methods doesn't negate her entire argument. There is a lot of casual misogyny in games. #notallgamesbutalot

What shoddy editorial standards does Gawker Media have? If you mean that a lot of their articles are clickbait garbage, then I'm right there with you. WELCOME TO THE INTERNET JOURNALISM AGE. Journalism is about making money, and that is how Gawker continues to be a going concern. Clickbait garbage might be "bad…

That's fine, but the problem is that, unlike feminists where, with the exception of RadFem crazies, all feminists are working towards the same goal and the differences are over how to reach that goal, GamerGate has become about so many things. Even most of the rational GamerGaters I've interacted with still see the…

Also, as far as we know Polanski isn't a serial rapist who developed a well-honed MO for luring women in, drugging them, and violating them the way Cosby did (maybe still does?).

I can KIND of do it with Roman Polanski, but only with a few of his movies that I can't live without. It takes me down an icky road, however, where I find myself justifying my choices and minimizing the rape in comparison to what Cosby did (which is totally gross and unacceptable and I won't even go into it except to…

It took me awhile to come to terms with it myself. I think mostly because after I learned about it, I just couldn't believe he was still allowed to be BILL FUCKING COSBY in public life with people pretending like this shit didn't happen. Burress's bit basically was like my internal monologue every time that happened.…

Seriously, its like does that snotty asshole even understand the whole reason behind the local foods movement? It's not necessarily for personal health or whatever, a lot of it is about supporting the small farmer who provides a necessary alternative to the massive agribusiness farming operations (many of which are…

Right it's all just a giant conspiracy, she even got Utah State University to corroborate her claims and the entire state of Utah to pass a gun rights bill making the security situation too risky.