Noone is having a conversation. Incorrect. There is active conversation happening everywhere, on both sides. Popehat, for example, has had two thoughtful piece

Noone is having a conversation. Incorrect. There is active conversation happening everywhere, on both sides. Popehat, for example, has had two thoughtful pieces on it. Other places have published good writeups as well. "seek to attract applause or favorable attention from spectators or the media." Whenever Anita Sarkessian says anything, she gets harassed and threatened. Put bluntly: negative attention is still attention. More constructively, note that she is garnering applause and favorable attention from a lot of people, especially the media. There are many articles celebrating her critiques--which is quite alright! So, no, I don't think that grandstanding is an inappropriate verb. I also don't think that grandstanding is only done by people in the wrong. To think that she just seeks attention instead of actually caring is grotesquely absurd. I never said or implied that, and that is a wonderful false dichotomy you've used there. Where she cares is orthogonal to whether she seeks attention.