In #GamerGate Battle, Feminists Predictably Resort to Totalitarian Tactics
Posted on | November 23, 2014 | 52 Comments
Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) is an unattractive woman with blue hair who is into (a) video games and (b) totalitarian ideology. In the 21st century, where “harassment” has been re-defined to mean “expressing disagreement with a feminist,” Harper decided to create a blacklist of Twitter users who support the #GamerGate project:
In a sign of how frenzied, panicky and intolerant the games industry establishment has become over the legitimate concerns of ordinary gamers, the International Game Developers’ Association branded some 10,425 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists, as harassment “offenders” in a humiliatingly ill-conceived attempt to provide a “blocking tool” to its members.
The blocking tool, which has been widely mocked online for its lack of sophistication and “blanket ban” approach, was assembled by Randi Harper, a persistent online agitator. The tool prevents users from seeing not only the tweets of users Harper has decided are implicated in harassment, but also many accounts who simply follow those users, by blocking a list of thousands of users with the use of an automated “bot.” . . .
Dozens of innocent developers, journalists and even some feminist critics have been caught in the tool’s exceptionally wide net, thanks to whom they follow on Twitter. Prominent internet personality and YouTuber Total Biscuit noted this weekend the absurdity of an international trade body accepting unfit-for-purpose software and capricious, arbitrary “harassment” clarifications by an independent developer who is hardly non-partisan in the ongoing GamerGate controversy. . . .
In the best traditions of far-Left feminist activists, Harper has also spuriously accused GamerGate supporters such as lawyer Mike Cernovich of “rape threats.” . . .
Read the whole thing by Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart.com.
This mass-blocking of Twitter accounts is the latest attempt by so-called “Social Justice Warriors” to extend the hegemonic influence of “progressive” ideology to include the video game industry. If I were a lawyer for any developer blocked by Harper in this IGDA list, I’d be drafting a carefully worded letter informing the IGDA of the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It’s one thing for “social justice” goon squads to mau-mau their targets on college campuses. IGDA blacklisting businesses in the private sector? See you in court.
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52 Responses to “In #GamerGate Battle, Feminists Predictably Resort to Totalitarian Tactics”
November 23rd, 2014 @ 9:46 am
If you were an attorney for a developer blocked by the lovely Miss Harper, you’d never take this case; it is simply agitation to boycott — something perfectly legal — by 21st century technology means.
Miss Harper is on pretty much of a failed crusade: she wants to ban images that young men find sexually interesting to online gaming, something where the market is primarily young men! Good luck with that!
On an episode of the Big Bang Theory, Penny and Amy and Bernadette were going to play Dungeons and Dragons with the guys, and Sheldon was concerned, saying, “I’ve never played D & D with a girl before,” to which Penny responded, “Don’t worry, nobody else ever has, either.” It’s not wholly true, but it’s close enough.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:15 am
Ayann Hirsi Ali is right about these Western Feminists: They are focused on trivial bullshit
November 23rd, 2014 @ 12:36 pm
The battles are so bitter because the stakes are so low.
PS: As I think about it more, this is a result of different parts of America living at different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Most people still have to worry about paying the bills and such. They still exist substantially in an environment of material concerns.
The SJWs and “elite” masterminds have their income problems all wrapped up. Now, their biggest concern are about feelings and self-actualization (assuming it’s not just a cynical power grab).
Each cadre thinks the other’s priorities are screwed up. They might even seem to be on equal moral footing, but the truth is that not only does the vast majority of the world still reside in the material sphere today, but material plenty was probably always a temporary condition.
Ergo, the SJWs et cetera are living in an unstable bubble.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 12:51 pm
Needless to say no one makes their avatar look like her.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 1:00 pm
They all have blue hair. Why do they all have blue hair?
November 23rd, 2014 @ 1:01 pm
The problem is these folks are compromising the actual careers of actual people over these microaggressions, sometimes getting them fired.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 1:19 pm
Absolutely not true — every group I played RPGs with had at least one girl.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
This was being done by feminists for some time, like ‘Atheism Plus’ making bots to block non-feminist atheists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dZIQZIfkg
November 23rd, 2014 @ 1:57 pm
http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001
November 23rd, 2014 @ 2:03 pm
Heh!
November 23rd, 2014 @ 2:52 pm
You had a good idea yesterday. To take it a step further I think we should make the SJWs beat their swords into plowshares, the next step is obvious.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
Yes, they most certainly are. I have a very hard time taking some upper middle class, or rich privileged white woman who went to an Ivy League university, and makes six figures , seriously when they claim they’re oppressed by patriarchy. It’s really the definition of oblivious.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
The IGDA blocklisttool might not produce the desired effect that SWJ Anti-Gamergate crowd has in mind. If this is the case, it would not be surprising to see the SWJ Anti-Gamergate crowd resort to the use of lawfare to have the silence the Gamergate crowd. A blocklist tool maybe the first step to more aggressive tactics that this anti-free speech crowd will use in the future.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:30 pm
This touches on something that has been bugging me. What exactly do these people do? They live in cities like San Francisco and New York, but all they seem to do is go to conventions and write articles for Kotaku. Gawker can’t possibly pay that well.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
I didn’t make the list. Clearly I’m not trolling hard enough. 🙁
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:47 pm
In fact, I think this is what made RPGs take off – unlike historical boardgaming, which was a righteous sausage-fest, you could usually find some girls and/or women in the local D&D group.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 3:54 pm
Neither did I. Has someone made a “I made the block list” button for blogs yet?
November 23rd, 2014 @ 4:05 pm
[…] In #GamerGate Battle, Feminists Predictably Resort to Totalitarian Tactics Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) is an unattractive woman with blue hair who is into (a) video games and (b) totalitarian ideology. In the 21st century, where “harassment” has been re-defined to mean “expressing disagreement with a feminist,” Harper decided to create a blacklist of Twitter users who support the #GamerGate project […]
November 23rd, 2014 @ 4:14 pm
If I were a lawyer, I might take the case just to force the IGDA to make that defence, getting them to openly declare that their tool was an “agitation to boycott” game developers. I think that would be the beginning of the end for an association of game developers.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 4:18 pm
“You’re all individuals………”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY&w=420&h=315%5D
November 23rd, 2014 @ 5:03 pm
Because they have the minds of 80 yr. old women.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 5:04 pm
That wasn’t my idea but what SE Asian commies did to their intellectuals. Back to the farm.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 5:06 pm
There already was an “atheism plus”; it was called soviet communism.
It wasn’t pretty.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 5:40 pm
A world of iconoclasts equals the new redneck Okies from Muskogee. I’m not surprised they want to reinstitute the ’50s comics code authority while claiming to be against such stuff.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Same here, including my darling bride, but it was a funny line.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Troll harder. (Said non-sarcastically. Achievement unlocked!)
November 23rd, 2014 @ 6:34 pm
And, in a totally non-feminist tradition, Becky ran two characters, a half-elf and half-orc, who were half-sisters. The human mother had an elf husband, but had also been raped by an orc, was how Becky explained it.
She was a fairly awesome redhead who never wore a bra, so I definitely paid attention to anything she said.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
It’s called a trust fund.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 7:04 pm
Thank God at least some groups are willing to stand up to the stupid Social Justice Nazis. Most corporate executives and college administrators and even sportscasters fall all over themselves to bow down and comply to the feministas.
The pushback by gamers and, now, by college men whose rights are being violated by the Scrunt Patrol, are showing the way.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 10:08 pm
Im not talking only about games journalists. the majority of these women are contributors to Salon, Slate, The Daily Dot, Vice, and a few larger outlets like Cosmopolitan, Huffpo, and even GQ. The rest are lawyers. Either way they are privileged women, majority of them white, and act like they are so put upon. It makes me sick, and it’s no wonder there’s a backlash against them from various men’s groups.
November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:50 pm
They can’t wreck your career; there’s no point in putting you on the list.
November 24th, 2014 @ 1:17 am
It’s only a matter of time until they start problematizing their whiteness, like they have already done to their straightness. Gotta keep the victim narrative up.
November 24th, 2014 @ 1:32 am
I made that list. The disapprobrium of these book burning defectives is less than nothing. Their hate is a sign of righteousness as far as I’m concerned.
However many of the people involved in gamergate are only a little to the right of the SJWs & I think it’s a matter of time before they find a wedge to split the left-liberals from the libertarians & conservatives. In the end they will show loyalty to their tribe. Social Justice will infiltrate in through the backdoor. The SJWs keep overplaying their hands, but who is going to call them to account? Many games already are unbearably sanctimoniously effeminate. How much farther do they have to go? Maybe foreign developers will avoid the madness, but American tech culture & geek culture seem very soft & very PC.
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:00 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism
is why
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:03 am
nerds are used to getting pushed around and all they ever wanted was their video games. They’ve got the courage of a cornered rat is all.
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:44 am
I don’t think the SJWs sense of absolutism will allow them to exploit that difference. Particularly since they’ve already so viciously and vehemently lumped them altogether.
November 24th, 2014 @ 6:03 am
This will split along lines being attacked. Remember, this is ultimately about only one thing: gaming conforming to intersectional gender feminist theory. That is being sold under a false rubric of “diversity,” “justice” and “equality.”
Some will agree with those theories or be fooled into thinking they are fighting for justice. Others will push back or simply ignore feminists.
Don’t expect people not being attacked to push back. In other words this is a circular black hole of a kafkatrap where you attack Arabs, only Arabs push back and you say “Look how no one else is against women – just Arabs.”
Of course straight white men are pushing back; they are the ones being attacked. Don’t expect any statements from the NAACP until Brianna Wu insists Delta Blues opens it ranks to the sensibilities of whites, gays, and women. Then suddenly black men will become the “hegemony” of patriarchal misogynists who erase the contributions of white women and gays.
In other words it will be exactly the same as in the SFF community. Also remember this: gender feminists can’t really produce anything anyone wants. If they could we’d be coming to all their great institutions, art and literature, not the other way round.
November 24th, 2014 @ 9:39 am
Trolling takes a lot of energy and the fact you didn’t make the list is an indication of the lack of proper nutrition you get from the gruel. RSM and Smitty are using you and so they are keeping you in the gulag and feeding you poorly.
November 24th, 2014 @ 9:40 am
I hate women so much I married one so I could always have one to torment. I have almost 40 years of hating women to my account, and I’m proud of it.
November 24th, 2014 @ 9:45 am
Anybody got any idea how many women play “World of Warcraft?” Not trolling, just curious. My son played it regularly as an undergrad, but gave it up after he started grad school.
November 24th, 2014 @ 11:27 am
They’ve problematized men’s heterosexuality and whiteness, that’s for sure. To hear them tell it the straight white male, if he doesnt renounce himself, and his privilege, and call himself a feminist he’s just another imperialstic warmongering misogynist. What this is really all about though is curbing the competition white males create for these privileged white females in the workplace where they often find themselves either being stepped over, or on by their male co workers. This where feminist quotas come from, and the concept of “toxic masculinity”, the latter being just a way to demonize the aggressive edge men often have over women.
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:41 pm
Good idea. This stupidity ought to be their death knell. The notion that a supposed international group of game developers ought to bow down to a ridiculously small minority of gamers while neglecting the wishes of the vast majority is asinine on its face.
That’s “progressivism” for ya.
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:43 pm
Is it just me, or wouldn’t young lesbians enjoy the same images that young men find sexually interesting?
November 24th, 2014 @ 3:46 pm
I have no idea overall, but anecdotally from my own observation, I’d say about 10%.
November 24th, 2014 @ 7:02 pm
my guild leader is a female. multiple females within the guild and within the greater alliance as a whole. and they all get treated with respect.
November 24th, 2014 @ 9:57 pm
Darn you !!!!
“She was a fairly awesome redhead who never wore a bra”
Impure thoughts
impure thoughts
impure thoughts
November 25th, 2014 @ 3:24 am
Even a cornered rat stands tall compared to those slithering away from the fight.
November 26th, 2014 @ 1:29 am
That is an interesting question, and my personal opinion is no. I think it is more likely that lesbians would be interested in women in the way that straight women are interested in men — as success objects — than that they would be interested in women in the way that straight men are interested in women as sex objects.
November 26th, 2014 @ 9:44 pm
Damn RMC…You sure know how to find the dirt bag b’tches
November 27th, 2014 @ 9:51 am
My work here is done.