A you trying to make me a feminist?Follow

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But it's a completely benign "knee-jerk reaction". If you want people to be up in arms about Twitter harassment or bomb threats or sending photos of your front door, sure. A petition? That's "how GGers operate"? Well, hell, looks like the whole issue is solved then because who gives a fuck about people making petitions?

If you weren't doing it to show up the other side in some juvenile tit-for-tat thing, that would be more impressive outside your sphere.

No, it's still benign. Anita gets to express her opinions. Other people get to express THEIR opinions. No one is getting set on fire or raped or run out of town by the threats of arson-rape. Wasn't THAT the supposed problem that started this whole thing? Threats of rape and bodily harm? Have we watered this down to "But what if people don't like the opinion and they say so "

So then who cares? What's the problem?

I don't think Jack Thompson was wrong that some games glorify violence, but that doesn't mean I think he should have any part in game creation. So you agree that, based on her opinion, she's not qualified for the job. Essentially this petition is something you agree with. Well, it's proof that being Anita with an opinion which she charged people for and presented as legitimate research findings that are universally disagreed with is a bad thing.

So you agree that, based on her opinion, she's not qualified for the job. Essentially this petition is something you agree with.

I can't speak for Joph, but it seems unlikely that he "agrees with" starting a petition to prevent someone he doesn't really have any interaction with from having a job. It seems pretty clear from, oh, I don't know, reading the words he wrote...that he thinks this sort of thing is the appropriate venue for people who have the time and emotional energy to care where this woman works. It allows them to feel they did something while keeping the rest of the universe safe from harm.

I riddled this out from:



Let me know if it's still unclear and I'll see if I can't have a short animated film with talking teacups made.

******* green names, they all look the same.

The only solution is to camp all the low post count sages to guru.

*ahem*

If it makes you feel better to say people got "defensive" about your terrible arguments so the problem must be with them, then you should run with that.

1. According to Carroll, the plan all along was to run next down if/when the pass didn't work. Anyways, all is right with the world around me. Would have been a miserable day at the office if the Pats lost.

2. a. Petitions are nice peaceful protesting tools, though ideologically speaking, Gamergate is about ethics in journalism, so they'd be way off message with this petition. In fact, they 'd be playing into their skeptics hand who claim they don't like girls with mouths.
2. b. I doubt if many gamers, including the thousand that signed this petition, make it a habit to check the curriculum vitae of the devs working on a title before buying and playing a game. Again, this anti-anita push is nothing if not irrational. Hell, for all you or I know she could add something to a game, or at least earn her pay. But then I enjoy games mostly for the gaming mechanics more-so than the graphics or storyline. I wouldn't be hurt if a game that might have had tits&aas, didn't. Anyways, there are enough games being made that allowing Anita to provide expert feminism input to a title or two isn't going to crash the industry. I mean GG has pretty much made it a necessity that the industry pay some attention to 'isms'.
2. c. It's water under the bridge anyways, isn't it?

3. Look for an upcoming episode of Law & Order to feature a make-believe GG crime.

Looking from the outside, it seems they don't like Anita, not "girls with mouths". Maybe the skeptics are missing that distinction.

Also, I don't like Anita, But I love a girl with a mouth!

What, "Because she has a vagina!" isn't a compelling enough argument for you?