History of Feminism

KitSileya

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1. I wandered into the hashtag gamergate on twitter.

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:10 AM

Oct 2014

Talk about cesspool. I found one of them interesting - Brad Wardell (@draginol) retweeted "a small sample of the daily smearing" he gets...

"Hey look, one of the people “interviewed" for that article is Brad Wardell. He continues the lie that feminist critics don’t know games."
"Brad Wardell defines corruption as... victims complaining about sexual harassment. "
"If you're quoting Brad Wardell for your cause, you already done fucked up. He's a known misogynist."

While the women gamer developers get posts like the following: (trigger warning for rape and death threats, strong language)

https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/520739878993420290/photo/1

Yeah, there's some false equivalence, there, dude.

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The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women [View all] seabeyond Oct 2014 OP

I wandered into the hashtag gamergate on twitter. KitSileya Oct 2014 #1

i never ... never read comments anymore from any article that highlights women. that is not a small seabeyond Oct 2014 #2

Violence against women, children, gays & other vulnerable people Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #3

this is an excellent post in the conclusiveness of the article. i agree totally. seabeyond Oct 2014 #4

Thanks, Sea. Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #5

what a man. (i do not mean that in a gendered manner, lol). i hope it generates seabeyond Oct 2014 #6

Well worth reading the entire article. brer cat Oct 2014 #7

i felt the same about the article. ya long. and important. i have two boys. seabeyond Oct 2014 #8

Followed some bread crumbs from GD daredtowork Oct 2014 #9

This ismnotwasm Oct 2014 #10