badgenome on 16 October 2014
| binary solo said: Lets be honest here though. The hate came from one side to start with, and it snowballed from there. |
That's very reductive. The hate from the gater side has been fed by long standing contempt for the audience from the journo side. I don't really think this whole blow up is about Zoe Quinn, or Anita Sarkeesian, or anyone else. There are an awful lot of female gaters for this to really be all about misogyny, and I'm not inclined to believe that they're all laboring under some false consciousness or suffering from internalized misogyny. I think this was a fight that was a long time coming, and it's predictably confused and messy and ugly.
