I hate GamerGaters and wanted to be sympathetic to her, but spend even five minutes reading about her and it becomes clear she’s a self-promoting fraud and a psycho.
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Oh that’s a real good way to dismiss evidence you don’t like
We really need to stop making people famous for being harassed on the internet. As sympathetic as their plight may be, this is not something that positively distinguishes someone as a person of character. Being a victim doesn’t make you virtuous, and it certainly doesn’t inherently make you the right person to…
“She had thought they were catcalling her, only to realize after she took her earbuds out that they were in fact shouting about how they planned to vote for her in Tuesday’s primary”
No anecdote has ever summed up Wu’s hammer-nail philosophy as well as this one.
Agreed, these articles are pushing me away from Kotaku, same reason I stopped using Polygon.
I wasn’t aware David Ortiz, or Bartolo Colon, or Prince Fielder, or Pablo Sandoval were considered “pristine” examples of physical conditioning. We watch sports not because the people involved are incredibly fit, but because they take a game we can play, and perform at levels we can’t. NASCAR drivers are also in…
I have nothing against this game, I am always glad to hear that certain games keep millions of people happy. I just don’t feel like this game will be as popular as it is right now for too long. If it does though, then bravo.
You know , I know people have gently dipped their toes in the waters of this controversy, but there really is a huge discrepancy between how people are reacting to this woman’s full on racial identity appropriation, and Caitlyn Jenner’s gender appropriation. This woman is mocked, and Jenner is celebrated.
Still?