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"far-right" sentiments are often against what are typically understood as feminist sentiments. Eg. Abortion access, social services, access to contraception, im

• teddyh 7y ago
  Yes, I know what you mean, but that can’t have been the reasoning; the article stated that gamers went from misogyny to far-right, using misogyny as a “gateway drug”. Why would the article have used the term “far-right” as a euphemism for “anti-feminist”, when it already postulated misogyny to start with? I think that interpretation makes no sense. The sentence only parses sensibly if you interpret “far-right” as something inherently bad, and something worse than misogyny. It’s hard to tell, though, since the article doesn’t use this connection again. The rest of the article mostly uses misogynists as the antagonists in its analogy to phones, and that’s fine and makes sense using the reasoning present in the article. It was that random connection to left/right politics which was unnecessary, since the “misogynist” label would have worked just as well, as evidenced by the rest of the article, which doesn’t use the “far-right” connection at all; this is why I called it a “snipe”.