LogFAQs > #913759171

Zeus and others are correct. To attempt to prevent the loss of their advertising money, and to keep up the pretense of legitimacy, the GameJournoPros (read about that list) agreed to preach to the uninterested masses that everyone who had a complaint about game journalists abusing trust to gain personal benefits, was a basement-dwelling, permavirgin, white, male, misogynerdzi. Then the #notyourshield campaign rolled out to indicate that a great many people of varying sexualities, ethnicities, and other categories, were tired of being propped up as victims by corporations and publications, and that they, too, had a problem with the way game developers, and games journalism were being run. Nobody likes being talked about like they're a defenseless inferior, especially when they're only being treated like one by those who claim to be their protectors. "Be quiet, brown person, for you have the internalized racisms, and I must protect you, because you are incapable of protecting yourself from words on the Internet."
But when you run the publications and have a worldwide reach, as well as the ability to rally the masses against any who speak dissent, it's easy to convince those who won't snoop around for facts on their own that the side with the money is the side of the truth, so we have people do this day who still believe that GamerGate (stupid name) was and is a hate campaign created to hate on women, people who don't ascribe to the binary division of the sexes, and people who aren't northern Irish or something.
Admittedly, it didn't help that a bunch of e-celebs were claiming to be the parade leaders, like every disgruntled player of video games was a soldier in their private army, and throngs of sock puppets and bad actors publicly admitted to stir up discord on both sides of the argument. I would call it a debate, but when one side is calling people nazis and organizing campaigns to de-platform them, it's hardly a debate.
My sister plays video games, and nobody mistreats her. My own mother got me into video games, and while she doesn't play arcade action games anymore, she still plays casual games on the computer I built for her. My brother practically lives on games, and the only people he mocks are men, because they can take it. Or, at least, don't go crying to daddy Corporation.
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