I am a woman and I played one game for sixteen hours straight. I went to work the next day and told my five male colleagues about it. Not one of them had played the game, which is a very popular FPS. In fact, every time I tell my male colleagues about a game I have played, most of them quite popular games, they…

Honestly, this all comes back to you getting defensive about giving women equal opportunities. You can frame it however you want, and maybe you don't even realize you're being misogynist. But you ARE being misogynist. You ARE perpetuating rape culture.

I am trying to do this right, because while your reply enraged me, I don't want to attack anyone. I am a female gamer. I enjoy RPGs and first-person shooters, so I'm not some casual Bejeweled or Stardom: Hollywood player (not that there's anything wrong with that, those games are fun). I can spend hours and hours…

The summary of what the author was getting at is that there is a group of angry males who are frustrated and upset that part of their world might expand to welcome people who are not angry males — with a small subset of angry males who become insanely furious if a woman speaks up against angry males — and are…

Let's try to get to the core of the matter: What you're saying is that games should be marketed to women, instead of being designed so blatantly for horny teen boys.

"Remove boobs and add rainbows and unicorns to the game? I have no clue what the vast majority of women would enjoy in a game - at least not enough to get them to devote the time and money into the hobby that men do. Similarly, I have no idea how you'd get me to buy a closet full of shoes. I'm just saying that the…

Mad, I'm a homosexual male and my enjoyment of the male form puts me in a defensive position. It's funny that you mention Christians being against homosexuality when I've experienced that same sentiment from many of the gamergaters. It seems that me just wanting to have a protagonist, (a gay male character whose…

Quinn took him to court. The judge almost immediately ruled that what he was doing is harassment, and now he's under a double-whammy restraining/gag order.

This is one of the best summaries I've read of the "fuck you, ladies and minorities, YOU'RE all the ones with the privilege!" mentality that keeps popping up in this shitstorm.

you would prefer to narrow the focus down to what you think is important in all this, the future of pixelated titties. this is understandable. it is a pathetic dodge away from the actual subject of the article. it is quoted for your reading pleasure below.

Yes, child. I know you do not want to talk about the article.

Let's try to get to the core of the matter: What you're saying is that games should be marketed to women,

Moreover, it isn't unique these gamers. The argument against Affirmative Action is based upon it's phantom victims (the white kid at the bottom of the yes pile who gets bumped). #notallmen is a strawman based on the false belief that feminism is blaming all men for bad deeds (missing the whole point). The whole…

This is valid to a point, but point to one privileged group that's ever raised its hand and said, Yep, too much influence here, that's just about enough for us, thanks.

Jack Thompson wanted to censor video games. Anita Sarkeesian wants video games to be more thoughtful. The two are nothing alike.

But Thompson wanted to restrict video games legally. She is just critiquing them for sexism, like thousands of people do for books and movies everyday. And I'm pretty sure Thompson didn't have a sustained campaign of harassment thrown at him, but then again the internet was younger then and gamers are more horrible…

Fantastic write-up, just ignored work and the NLCS for 20 minutes to read it. As a gamer, the vile misogyny that runs rampant in specific corners in the culture of gaming is beyond sickening. I honestly don't know how you can possess the capability to post the things they do and sleep soundly at night.

It's fucking video games. If you are threatening to rape, kill, or in any way harm another human over it, you're a piece of shit. This whole thing really drives home the point that video game obsessives, like any other obsessive, have serious mental and emotional issues.

Things like this are why I no longer identify myself as a "gamer." There's just too much baggage that comes with the label.

How did people let the rest of the world know they were horrible shitheads before the advent of the internet?