DC’s best sign:

Betsy DeVos reminds me of all the terrible parents my public school teacher father has told me horror stories about. Over his career, he’s experienced parents who have yelled at him, patronized him, asked him how much his salary is, tried to bribe him to give their kids extra time on tests or better grades, people who…

Indeed. I’m thinking troll. Because every woman gamer I know well enough to talk about such things absolutely has at least one big story about getting shit for playing video games. Especially “boy games”.

See also: Comics, Superheroes, even sports. Basically anything that’s ‘traditionally’ a “guy thing”.

I mean, heck,…

Hi. I’m not a writer or an editor at Gizmodo. Best of luck in finding your source!

This is a really, really good panel & thank-you (Jezebel) for helping to host it.

I have never heard of women playing games not meant for girls being bullied. 

Everything you just said depends on the DNC being some overwhelming Svengali of an organization, manipulating and threatening potential candidates into compliance with their evil whims. They’re just not.

I got a response from Richard Nixon when I was twelve (summer of 1974). It was utterly without charm - and he resigned a week later.

Got it, so you’re just spouting some sexist rhetoric you heard on the internet. Glad you could confirm.

Words have meanings. You said “she was not a candidate that many people could feel excited about” without qualification.

There are certainly physical differences between men and women but none of those things factor into game preferences. Having a uterus does not cause someone to shy away from shooters any more than having a penis prevents someone from enjoying color-matching games.

Oh god this! When the 3Ds came out, I went into a shop with my boyfriend to go have a look. The bloke in the shop talked to my boyfriend for ages about Zelda and all the new stuff. After a while, he turned to me and said brightly, ‘it’s got Nintendogs too!’

He wanted to make sure these issues were not overlooked as they so often are by mod-dems.

One concrete example of that hostility: a game store.

But in an e-mail, he noted that this interpretation could be reductive. Genre and gaming motivation don’t explain gender breakdown with complete accuracy. 

This is really important, to remember that when we’re talking about genders in aggregate none of the information actually applies to the individual. This is…

Hillary Clinton represents us all today. What woman hasn’t had the experience of celebrating  the man who got the promotion/job she was infinitely more qualified for?

Oooh, you’re gonna get arrested, lol. My goal is to never, ever, refer to that man as “President” and to never, ever hear him speak. If he’s on tv, I turn the channel. If some shit hits the fan in a way that he would have a press conference or have to interrupt all the stations, I’ll turn the tv off and just read…

Isn’t it awesome the double standard?