Nintendo fires treehouse member Alison Rapp

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DevilRising said:

You have to love how these #GamerGate morons work. They're mad that NoA censors certain content in game localizations....typically sexual content. Then they harass someone who isn't even directly responsible for that censorship, and threaten her, her family, her career, just as they have with others. Note how they don't often attack male members of the industry. If they have it hasn't gotten much attention. Most of their primary targets have been female, and that is not a coincidence.

I have no great love for extreme feminists. But a bunch of anonymous losers attacking women behind keyboards are worse. There isn't even an argument to be made about that. These "movement" has only ever proven that certain contingents of modern gamers are nothing but spoiled brats, and immature man-children, from the start. It's one thing to disagree about something. But it's something else entirely to, in some cases quite literally terrorize human beings and their lives, their livelihoods, even their loved ones......over ANYTHING. There is zero excuse to threaten or harass these women. None.

#GamerGate people are not "activists". They're idiots with absolutely nothing better to do in their lonely, rotten lives. Period.

Two things:

1) Pretty much everyone, on both sides of the debate, has received harassment, regardless of gender. While the cases of harassment against women are certainly more publicized, that does not mean that women are exclusively harassed.

2) Gamergate is not a monolith, its just a hashtag. Besides, from what I've seen the majority of people who are active in gamergate circles have opposed pretty much all actions taken against Ms. Rapp. That does not reduce the brunt of the harassment faced by Ms. Rapp, but it is worth noting. This harassment was not an action of the bogeyman gamergate, it was the actions of individuals.