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Comment Re:It Remains a Journalism Scandal. Deal With It. (Score 1) 693

"from day one, zoe quinn faced the nastiest of sexual and mysoginistic slurs and threats."

Could you substantiate this? I mean, specifically, the number (to prove it wasn't isolated incidents) and connection to GamerGate (as in specific instances was actively disproven).

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

I'm not sure you understand how Patreon works. It's not goal-oriented like Kickstarter. It's more of "Let people throw money monthly at a creator, and the creator promises to deliver something nebulous from time to time." While in Kickstarter you're interested to see a specific completed product, in Patreon you 'show support' letting the creator 'keep doing the good job'. As result, popularity - especially victim style or activist style popularity - yields very good results.

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

Look up the gamergate article on Wikipedia. The original gaming media issue is practically nonexistent, the whole article is about the terrible mysogynists who attacked the innocent feminist activists.

Wikipedia tends to support its articles with media publications and if media integrity is the subject, media tend to be biased. To get the truth you need to reach for the actual sources, and that constitutes "Original Research" which is not an accepted Wikipedia source.

Comment Re: Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

You're missing the point. The view of SJWs is that whoever is in a position of privilege in society, doesn't deserve any protection from abuse from the 'oppressed' side. Say, "Blacks can't be racist", or "Men can't be raped".

It's not about claiming there's no inequity. It's about their approach to resolving the problem. Someone some posts earlier put it well: if there's some stairs leading to a building, SJWs don't build a ramp for the handicapped, they remove the stairs so that handicapped don't feel bad about healthy people being able to enter.

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

Kudos to you.

Feminism used to be about women proving to be strong and deserving an equal place.

Currently it seems to be about women whining that they are victims and demanding privileges and preferential treatment to make up for being unable to keep up with men.

I have a lot of respect for women who are strong, smart and brave enough to keep up or surpass men in 'male-dominated' fields, and I'd be first to protest if they were treated badly for being women.

I also have respect for women who are aware of their weaknesses and pick much-needed jobs they still can perform well, even if not as 'prestigious'. The situation does have its mirror side, menial male-dominated jobs, no inequality here either.

But I'm seriously pissed off when a woman who is definitely underperforming in the 'male-dominated' domain blames patriarchy for her failures. The opposite is extremely rare...

Comment Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate (Score 1) 693

Maybe that was back then. Currently the demand of SJWs would walk into the restaurant and start spitting in people's food.

Seriously, that 'new wave feminist' movement is rabidly opposed to granting men any rights that would level the field where women have unfair advantage, for example blocking any laws that would allow men to persecute women for abuse, or raiding peaceful protests of men who request equal rights to retaining children after divorce.

The word "justice" is used tongue-in-cheek. "Minority Supremacists" is far more accurate.

And specifically, note 'warriors'. Most of their actions are counter-constructive. You won't see many positive initiatives from them, like helping these in need - instead, they focus on injuring these who, in their perception have upper hand in some allegedly 'unjust' situation.

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