One beer? You're an idiot. Who'd want to live in a society where job loss and de facto permanent unemployment occurs at the slightest infraction?

yeah, those men, you know? they're such pigs.. we oughta just ban them instead, then the world would be one huge hugbox....oh wait..

No. It's sexism, actually.

You mean any cuckolded married man? The saying goes "women are from venus" and not mars for a reason..

If counting calories is required, then maybe we aren't quite ready to go to space yet.

Of course, that's just the false pragamatism. In the old just post jim crow days, they did this with race, too. This article reeks of pro-feminist propaganda. What if they said that the crew should be all white because they scored higher on some test, or better yet, separate-but-equal missions, but the non white mission received half the funds? Seriously, in any other configuration, the statements made by this article would be considered bigoted, but since it's pro woman who cares, right? For great social justice?

The only people deserving of hate here are the hypocrites who come up with this bullshit and try to pass it off as moral.

Propagandists are not journalists.

Wow what a hypocrite. Your post reeks of racism.

The problem is what one person considers friendly trashtalk another considers 'being a dick', so enforcing subjective rules like that just gives people opportunities to abuse the enforcement system and become dicks themselves. I still think the "grow a thicker skin and stop crying" is the better cultural attribute to cultivate. Secure, mentally healthy people don't let names bother them to the point where they need 'trigger warnings,' nor do they take hyperbolic troll comments as life threatening.

I agree it's a label that's been thoroughly abused. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea to always discount what's inside.

Exactly. I was modded troll for questioning the narrative. Whose worse known for this? The gamer community or the 'social justice warriors'? Who is censoring who? The anti-gamergate sites: polygon, RPS, kotaku, arstechnica, and even 4chan are censoring any talk about this, and have done so from the beginning. The 'journalists' from these sites colluded with each other on a 'gamejournopros' mailing list for years. Search it out if you want. Several of the people working for these sites have had outright sexual relations with at least one of these feminists, and socio-economic ties with another, with XOXO, with DIGRA etc. The pro gamergate sites are allowing open conversation on the topic and at least one has been DDOS'd for it. With conflicts like this, the side doing the censoring, social blackmail, and emotional pleading is the side whose motives I question. The gamers and gaming community are just the latest targets of these social parasites. I guess the biggest reason I care is that this problem is affecting the entire society, not just one niche community.

The term 'troll' has been so thoroughly abused at this point that its new definition is effectively "one who does not agree with the bandwagon."

with the exception of the corny intro, this vid is a decent summary. if you care to know more, watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

That's right. Words != action... The word 'hate' has been appropriated way too much to justify witchhunts. If your safety is threatened, call the police. People need to stop equating every little bullshit insult as 'threatening hate speech'. They also need to learn the concept of hyperbole.

Except for one thing, they don't experience discrimination, certainly not at the 'epidemic' levels stated by Anita and friends. These are the same kinds of lies spouted by that inane 'itsonus.org' campaign. In fact, most gamers don't give a shit at all what you are, as long as you play well. Online gaming is a great equalizer in a lot of ways. The only people who get shit on along race/sex boundaries are people who make a point of telling everyone and then behaving in ways that draw ire. All that does is load everyone up with ammo for the next trashtalk session and give them excuses to use it. Most people used to learn how to handle this in gradeschool. I can see the PC enforcement there has helped in spades.. now we have adults who cry like babies when someone calls them a name.

The ugly side? What? a few trolls and some trashtalkers? Every community has that, and history has shown that it requires draconian controls to stamp even small amounts of that out, which is detrimental to the point of having that community in the first place. People need to grow thicker skins and get over themselves.

It does generate views and ad revenue, but mostly for RPS, polygon, kotaku, arstechnica, and the other colluding sites. In contrast, you'll find that many on the pro gamergate side are purposely not taking ad revenue for their coverage of it.
this one for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I think it gained the traction it did because it mirrors the same politics at a societal level. Also, there are those who've been saying "no one cares" to shame others away from it.

Yeah those people who 'point out rampant sexism' are claiming victimhood to shield themselves from criticism. This is no different than democrats who race bait anyone who criticizes their positions (republicans used to do this with 'christian shaming' back in the day). Sarkeesian's videos have been thoroughly debunked at a logical and factual level (it's not hard to do). The whole thing blew up because of the evidence of journalist, site, and network collusion to push this narrative. The sites that allowed open discussion of the topic were attacked.

If you care to know, here's a pretty good summary, with a slightly humorous intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

just in case anyone thinks 'race baiting' is a made up term.
http://www.merriam-webster.com...