I'm not sure I follow you entirely, but I think I understand better now your view of things. And for my part, committing to an ongoing process of vigilance, for change over time, seems pretty reasonable.

"I don't want gay references to be shoved into a game with no artistic merit."

"Sure, I saw plenty online, and I'm the first to claim it's wrong."

When I moved into a majority black neighborhood, about three miles south of Boston proper, I was impressed on our first Halloween when the kids coordinated using Nextels. "<screech>Yo yo yo, they giving our Baby Ruths in them big houses on Melville Ave<screesquawk>". Good job, youth, I thought.

#morecaffeine #levelup

Ah! You've pinned it down. I wasn't looking for the *valid* reasons that might be given. I hadn't supposed there are any.

Hmm? Perhaps we are misreading.

In the top post, I learned that supporters of #gamergate aren't participating in any real sort of dialogue. I asked if they are giving any kind of reason for the lack of dialogue, which I thought might take the form of (here I'm speculating), "The SJWs don't want dialogue, they want…

I hope the lack of self-awareness they seem to be suffering from isn't contagious.

Neutral *researcher*, not observer.

Ulyssses.

Look ye upon his noodly appendage and despair.

I'm imagining how they'd cling to your limbs with their noodly arms, bogging you down like whiny teen quicksand.

"At this point, there is no dialogue, even though they still say they are trying to promote one."

How many fourteen-year-olds could you take on at once before their force of numbers overwhelmed you? Six, seven? Even considering their low physical fitness, you're going to get swamped. There's just too many. We have to find another way.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was SHRDLU.

I work with a publisher of books in translations. I'm interested. I'll flag it for our next all-hands meeting.

Imagine the casting call for a live-action version. "We're especially interested in brick-shaped people."

Anyone else here read "God's Demon"?

I'm just grateful people around me put up with me during the time I was slowly learning to see that point myself. Cheers.

Of course you don't have to agree with everything he, I, anyone says. My point was that it may be anti-social at one time or another to press the point that you disagree. It isn't the disagreement which invites speculation as to motive (misogyny? insecurity? hostility?) in any given case, not necessarily yours; it is…