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They're doing a pretty bad job of that, considering how many women affiliate with GG... https://twitter.com/Nonsensicole/status/737680093946863617 https://twitt

• untog 10y ago
  Not defending anyone in this, but plenty of women affiliate with ISIS, too. That doesn't mean ISIS is good for women.
  • jasonlotito 10y ago
    Edit: You know, I should have known better to get involved. Despite my best intentions, people have decided to misrepresent what I said as something completely different. Might as well just end it here.
    • untog 10y ago
      > difference is ISIS isn't out to terrorize women I'm not sure about that. They literally capture women as sexual slaves and have extremely regressive views of women's rights.
    • Chlorus 10y ago
      What does 'explicit' mean in this context? It's not like a hashtag has a mission statement or any kind of statement of values.
• Chlorus 10y ago
  For further context, I'm not saying there aren't a disproportionate number of misogynist assholes in GG, but plenty of people who have used the GG tag / affiliated with it had far different agendas. For example, a frequent target is ill-advised Polygon / Kotaku clickbait thinkpieces - you don't have to be an alt-right neo-Nazi to find something objectionable about those.
  • bitwize 10y ago
    Sure, but GamerGate really isn't about those. If you look into how the movement came about in the first place, you will see that its origins lie in Eron Gjoni using the internet as his personal army to punish Zoë Quinn by tarnishing her reputation with misogynistic lies. "Journalistic integrity" is just a figleaf to mask the true aims of the movement.
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