OK, so, I’m going to try this in Kinja Club. It was well received up till Tuesday.

So is electricity. And tricycles. And the Mandlebrot set. And at least three-fourths of the discography of Lou Reed/Velvet Underground.

"You're Australian. Be Australian."

It's a shitty movement to hitch your wagon to in the first place though. It had nothing to do with journalism from the outset, so why stick with Gamergate if that's what you really care about?

"all Muslims are terrorists"

I actually think the smart ones who have a point don't associate with Gamer Gate. They don't see the need to be collective in their genuine inquiries about journalism ethics or sexism. Also, those aren't the ones being chauvinistic douche waffles threatening rape and outing peoples personal info.

When we do it, we move the big money items like heroin and blow.

That's a false dichotomy.

out of 1000? srsly? you either don't understand normal distributions, or are practicing some wilful ignorance towards sexism/harassment (I'm guessing both).

Show me an all white male fire department and I will show you a fire department that is rotten with nepotism. These are not what best serves the community.

41 female firefighters out of 10,000? Jesus fucking Christ! About ten years ago I was working to become a firefighter in San Francisco, and even while my female mentor told me it was a boys club and needed a lot of progress, SF had several transgender firefighters and many that were gay or lesbian, not to mention a…

P.S. When guys say they wouldn't want a woman firefighter dragging them out of a burning building, I make sure to tell them to write it on their foreheads so I know to leave them there when I find them.

Yeah, I'd feel better, because then I'd know my city isn't run entirely by white, straight males more often than not relying on nepotism for their jobs. I would feel like hey, maybe my city is a progressive and equitable place to live and work.

Funny, that's what they said about cops too.

Well, that explains why the blogger was anonymous. Because apparently authors are fucking nuts.

Did you say the same thing 7 years ago when we found out IGN's Nintendo editor was married to the VP of Nintendo's PR firm? He worked there for three more years after it was discovered (IGN didn't disclose it until someone else broke the controversy).

This is the emptiest of tough-guy posturing, touting your own superior bravery knowing you're overwhelmingly unlikely never to be in this position. You're not impressing anyone, guy.

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