My parents asked me if I'm going to let my daughter play video games when she's old enough because of all the murderers and rapist gamers on the news. So yeah, gamergate has made me defend my hobby to my parents, something that I haven't had to do in about 25 years. So... thanks gg.

While I don't necessarily agree with you, I do believe that your thoughts are shared by a large portion of gamergate which goes to my point with visualdeity that gg is not just about ethics in video games

i think your definition of gamergate is too narrow. I think you need to recognize the strong anti-feminist, anti-sjw current running through gg. I'm not saying it's good or bad, and I'm not saying that it's the same as misogyny or even sexist, but I am saying that it is a very real, very large part of gg.

i've read these comments for months now and every time there is a gg article, there's badassnoor claiming "as a strong feminist" immediately followed by something anti-feminist. Well, as a strong supporter of badassnoor, I have to say that I have never agreed with anything that person says.

I think you got him there. Also his 20 million comments on the topic also sort of suggest that he cares more than he's willing to admit.

"you can't expect to change everyone so your daughter don't asks stupid questions."

sounds like it was less about blizzard being pressured by game journalists and more blizzard developers interacting with actual females... Like his daughter...

Its true that there haven't been any reports of major harrassment/doxxing since Felicia Day. I think it's because that event really brought gg into the spotlight of the mainstream media. Since them, the doxxers have been lying low because, well, even wifebeaters know not to hit their wives when their neighbors are…

but you can make educated guesses.

When Slate interviewed Niger Innis, executive director theteaparty.net and asked himabout the comparisons between Gamergate and the Tea Party some people have made regarding their reactionary ideologies, he responded that the comparison was absurd and that the Tea Party is offended by attacks on women.

I've never heard of the guy in your link but I've seen multiple pics of the screen above literally hours after her post, so I'm going to say the original

what exactly would you consider association with gg? It's not like there are card carrying members. But you can infer associations based on actions used to accomplish similar goals. If two people are mugging you, one guy holds a gun, the other demands your money, you can infer they are associated due to their mutual…

felicia days doxxer signed his post gaimerg8

not exactly the same. It would be similar if isis only attacked people who criticize Islam. But Isis is actually at war with other Muslims. Gg and the harassers seem to have the same goals, so that's the association.

the harassment occurred when women criticized gg. Brianna made a meme. Felicia wrote an article. So it's not a spurious association.

Are your saying kotaku did that?

you nailed it. Gg is anti kotaku. Gg hates kotaku for its progressive attitudes and is willing to use anything, including a trumped up ethics charge that is clearly demonstrably false, to attack kotaku. Gg is trying to silence kotaku by attacking its advertisers. Gg has little to do with ethics in video game…

yannick could you please update the article to reflect that he did call out gg specifically by name at the end of the presentation? I'm sick of all these replies saying that he wasn't referring to them.

How the mainstream media views gamergate, from the bullpen of the New York Times.

Violence may beget violence, but YouTube videos are not equivalent to violence. That some gamergaters believe so is sorta scary. But we agree that some gamergaters do have the worst tempers. I hope they've learned how counterproductive it is to act on it. Once you've threatened to rape and kill someone, nobody really…