So, basically, almost exactly, the George Carlin "Stuff" bit?

No, it was the other way round. It began with misogyny and then, as it attracted more hateful people and snowballed, a few people joined in who said they didn't share the hateful sentiments. The more savage elements realised they'd have no future unless they tried to gentrify themselves and make the case look noble.

My bad entirely. You were responding to gamergate sucks and I mis-read thinking that was targeted towards me. (Specifically, I was mis-reading the "You are a pathetic man" reply inadvertantly).

You are just looking for an argument. And you are proving my initial point with every rude and irrational reply. I think you have a maturity issue; or maybe just are having a bad day. In any case, you are not discussing, you are just being a jerk, so I see no reason to continue on with you.

This is my name but I've been on Kotaku for a very long time. My home connection has a dynamic IP, I work in AAA game development, publishing and funding so I find these burner accounts with no email tied to them work best for me. My last account was accidentally logged out of so I made this one as it was the hot…

That annoys me, too. "Neither side is perfect! Your side is just as bad as mine!"

Agreed, but it's a far, far bigger problem than just, "not being friendly" or "being a dick." The rampant homophobia, misogyny, and overall vitriol that festers and boils in the pits of the gaming community are quite frankly, acts of violence and hate.

Seriously. The original commenter seems like a loser who has nothing better to do but cry about "SJW's" all the time, as other conservative culture warriors do (Also, as a heads up, if you sincerely think the word "SJW" is a valid insult or that what you call "SJW's" pose a threat to "muh freedumb," you're probably an…

And there you go. It was not even a few minutes before you came along and proved my point entirely.

Honestly, we do not deserve the nomination.

Anyone who supported GamerGate: No, not you.

Note they're not talking about everyone who plays games, or who self-identifies as a "gamer", as being the worst

Unfortunately I don't think of Jez as particularly feminist, at least not in the way I was taught. Feminism I was taught is that men and women are completely equal. The only job a woman can't do is be a sperm donor and the only job a man can't do is be an egg donor. After that, it's all open. That's not something Jez…

Realist Crew checking in. Sorry. Women take up space with their giant purses. And this may come as a surprise to you, but men sit that way because it's comfortable. It literally has NOTHING to do with you. It's not AT you, ABOUT you, BECAUSE of you. When no women are present we still sit this way. You are not…

Maybe not as much, but the ladies do it, too. That doesn't make it okay... But ladies do it, too. As a feminist, I need to point that out .

He's going outside of the leg to outside of the leg though. Everyone else was just measuring the gap. He's also the only guy sitting next to an empty space. Assume three inches or so for the legs and he's more or less with the other guys.

No one screamed or kicked or spread wider in defiance." And then they asked each man to measure the span of his spread.

My response to a random person with a camera annoying me on the train would be as follows, "Are you insane, leave me the fuck alone" in a calm, bored voice.

My favorite part was when they were measuring and you can see multiple women taking up more space.

maybe even make it sexy?