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What does this have to do with GamerGate? This is a feminist talking about an MRA, neither of those things are GamerGate... I feel like you have conflated the

What does this have to do with GamerGate? This is a feminist talking about an MRA, neither of those things are GamerGate... I feel like you have conflated the issues a bit maybe?

andallas 11y ago
I went back and counted, there are 6 mentions of GamerGate (not including the tag) and all of them are anecdotal references by FreeBSDGirl. In fact, the primary article in question (the guy that wants to legalize rape) doesn't mention GamerGate at all, or even remotely allude to it. P.S. Thanks for the downvote rather than a reply. It really shows your willingness to talk about issues and not just jump to conclusions...
- detaro 11y ago
  The guy that wants to legalize rape and the person the article is mainly about are not the same person.
  - andallas 11y ago
    Maybe I need to read a bit better. I don't deny that they are different people, but I guess I thought the linked article was more important than just a side comment.
scholia 11y ago
She has, like a lot of women, been harassed by GamerGate. They actually sent a police SWAT team to break down her door (which they didn't). http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/ http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/ She's been viciously attacked in Breitbart, a far right-wing site that championed GamerGate's hounding of women in tech. She also created a useful tool to block GamerGate hate attacks on Twitter. It's the sort of thing a lot of women could use. http://europe.newsweek.com/one-womans-new-tool-stop-gamergate-harassment-twitter-288008 http://europe.newsweek.com/one-womans-new-tool-stop-gamergat... Basically, any women in tech who can be targeted will be targeted by Gamergate because that's what they do. GamerGate is basically a rentamob of misogynistic thugs. It's toxic. (Whether it's just misogynistic thugs exploiting the GamerGate label doesn't really matter. To all intents are purposes, they are GamerGate now.) There was quite a good BuzzFeed story on the larger picture of what's going on. http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-forces-of-the-internet-became-a-countercult http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-for...
- Jogyn 11y ago
  So your sources are a clickbait rag, Randi Harper (notorious crybully) and an article which contains no evidence of GamerGate doing anything but instead an article with 4chan not actually doing anything but being 4chan. Well, I'm sold.
  - dang 11y ago
    Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please keep them out of your comments here.
- Globrazu 11y ago
  "She's been viciously attacked in Breitbart, a far right-wing site that championed GamerGate's hounding of women in tech." How about you give links to these "vicious attacks" so people can actually look at them and make up their own opinions, it's not like they contain any proof that anyone is a serial harasser: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-o... http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/07/23/freebsd-community-distances-itself-from-notorious-activist-randi-harper/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/07/23/freebsd-c...

What does this have to do with GamerGate? This is a feminist talking about an MRA, neither of those things are GamerGate... I feel like you have conflated the issues a bit maybe?

andallas 11y ago

I went back and counted, there are 6 mentions of GamerGate (not including the tag) and all of them are anecdotal references by FreeBSDGirl. In fact, the primary article in question (the guy that wants to legalize rape) doesn't mention GamerGate at all, or even remotely allude to it. P.S. Thanks for the downvote rather than a reply. It really shows your willingness to talk about issues and not just jump to conclusions...

detaro 11y ago
The guy that wants to legalize rape and the person the article is mainly about are not the same person.
- andallas 11y ago
  Maybe I need to read a bit better. I don't deny that they are different people, but I guess I thought the linked article was more important than just a side comment.

scholia 11y ago

She has, like a lot of women, been harassed by GamerGate. They actually sent a police SWAT team to break down her door (which they didn't). http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/ http://blog.randi.io/2015/04/03/swated/ She's been viciously attacked in Breitbart, a far right-wing site that championed GamerGate's hounding of women in tech. She also created a useful tool to block GamerGate hate attacks on Twitter. It's the sort of thing a lot of women could use. http://europe.newsweek.com/one-womans-new-tool-stop-gamergate-harassment-twitter-288008 http://europe.newsweek.com/one-womans-new-tool-stop-gamergat... Basically, any women in tech who can be targeted will be targeted by Gamergate because that's what they do. GamerGate is basically a rentamob of misogynistic thugs. It's toxic. (Whether it's just misogynistic thugs exploiting the GamerGate label doesn't really matter. To all intents are purposes, they are GamerGate now.) There was quite a good BuzzFeed story on the larger picture of what's going on. http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-forces-of-the-internet-became-a-countercult http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-for...

Jogyn 11y ago
So your sources are a clickbait rag, Randi Harper (notorious crybully) and an article which contains no evidence of GamerGate doing anything but instead an article with 4chan not actually doing anything but being 4chan. Well, I'm sold.
- dang 11y ago
  Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please keep them out of your comments here.
Globrazu 11y ago
"She's been viciously attacked in Breitbart, a far right-wing site that championed GamerGate's hounding of women in tech." How about you give links to these "vicious attacks" so people can actually look at them and make up their own opinions, it's not like they contain any proof that anyone is a serial harasser: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-o... http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/07/23/freebsd-community-distances-itself-from-notorious-activist-randi-harper/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/07/23/freebsd-c...