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The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It never went away in the first place

Yes, last I checked, one of their prime hate forums r/KotakuInAction was still active, and still filled with the most pathetic little insects seething about the fact that women and minorities exist in media. Gamergate has never really ended. Most people just stopped paying attention to these fools.

Unfortunately, that's easy for me to say, since I'm not on the receiving end of their doxxing and death threats.

I haven't had the best life, but I just can't fathom being such a total loser that I'd ever get that worked up over something like video games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Even on Lemmy, which is generally full of exactly the sort of people gAmErS hate, gaming communities tend to be… well, gaming communities. At least this post hasn't gotten downvoted into the negatives, but it's got 50% as many downvotes as upvotes at the time I'm writing this. Sure, maybe some of those people have legitimate issues with the article, but I very much doubt it – it's more likely they just saw "misogyny" in the title and downvoted without reading it.

Edit: are there any less, uh, gamery gaming communities around?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. My instance actually disables downvotes, so I can't see that, but there are a lot of reddit transplants here (I'm one of them), and reddit's takes on things like feminism and women are overall not ... good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My crosspost to [email protected] doesn't seem to have any downvotes, so maybe there?

Edit: Do note that the other thread ended up locked because some Gamergate chuds did show up, but the mods did promptly deal with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Just FYI, Beehaw doesn't have downvote button so that's probably why.