Wow, that is absolutely false. Irish immigrants were not considered "white" when they hit the shores in the mid-1800s.

What was "really really bad"? A cosy relationship between high-roller game development houses and the gaming journalism industry? This is SOP for *all* media, including the news. Don't think for one second your cause is somehow more noble or just than any other journalistic-integrity cause, and absolutely don't…

No, the common experiences of women who report it is what makes it common.

Guanciale! The proper way to make spaghetti carbonara!

Ah so you're a moral relativist, I see. Both sides are equally valid? One side almost ritualistically abuses women who speak up for themselves, the other side does not. Morally equal?

Oh see now, what's sauce for the goose, etc. etc. Anyone who cheers on doxxing deserves turnabout. Expose them. Turn them into pariahs.

Is that right? How many times have feminists issued threats to rape and murder people, threatened to hurt their families, run them out of their homes with fear? Please name them, specifically, I'd love to read up on it.

I'm explicitly telling people to abandon this hashtag bullshit. It's lazy, cowardly, and useless. If all these people are really so f-ing smart, surely they can actually build something to affect real change, no?

No, they won't. The tipping point has been reached. They lost.

1) Hashtag activism is for lazy people and cowards. You want something to change, get off your fat bottom and do something about it. Changing to a new hashtag is just the same old brand of impotent bullshit as the last one, and just as easy to corrupt. Do you think anyone in the industry gives a flying fuck about a…

Then maybe dispense with hashtag-activism and actually get off your duffs and do something. Write articles of your own and try to get them published. Start up your own reviewing sites and see how you fare. If what you are really concerned about is the cozy relationship between developers / development companies and…

You're right, I'm sort of running around with a hammer here and everything is starting to look like a nail. I haven't seen the other items you mention (Arfin, Alexander), so I'll look them up. Except for Ani DiFranco, that one shines out like a beacon of intellectual bankruptcy.

If you're in anything resembling a position of influence, believe people when they tell you these things happen to them (mostly women but definitely men as well). Investigate. Throw the book at people who perpetrate and perpetuate it. What took my breath away when it happened to me was the number of people who…

That's not my job to figure out. Its the job of the people who are charged with enforcing the law.

So because you've never seen it, it isn't common. Check.

I don't think that's true at all. I do think the media has been holding up a mirror to the gaming community — such as it is — and demanding it take a good hard look at what happens there, and how much casual sexism and racism is tolerated there. If people are uncomfortable, they probably should be. People who have…

Who 's belittling whom? I've lived in shitty neighborhoods too. I've also been stalked. One is materially more frightening than the other.

I would say Gamergate became toxic the instant the rape and death threats started, or perhaps the ubiquitous use of the words "cunt" and "whore" to describe women who dared to opine something that flies in the face of gamerdom orthodoxy.

That depends on you and how you craft and mold your message. It depends on how well you control it, how you identify yourself, how you and your cohorts behave. Frankly, "the media" doesn't give two shits about gaming journalism, I'll tell you that right now. I mean this isn't going to hit the NYTimes because…

I see. So what was the intent of posting Felicia Day's (and Brianna Wu', and Anita Sarkeesian's, etc.) home address? Addresses of their family members? Kids' schools? Phone numbers? Just casual chit-chat, or what's the story there?