What the fuck is GamerGate... on second thought, I probably dont want to know

Gamergate needs to continue. It's stupid to say all gamergaters are mysoginists because maybe one or two are.

It's the same as saying all muslims are terrorists just because ISIS is.

Gamergate pressures the industry, it will filter the bad out of the good, slowly but surely.

Unite for sexism? Yay?

The shitty thing is that the feminazi side of the whole Gamergate scandal seems to have won by casting themselves as the victims and garnering sympathy in the mainstream media, such as Sarkeesian going on the Colbert Report where Stephen of course does his part to push the "all gamers are adolescent males who hate women" meme.

And like another poster mentioned, notice that Sarkeesian doesn't complain about the treatment of women in other forms of media such as movies TV and music, and you'll never catch her criticizing the treatment of women under Islamic rule because all of a sudden her sympathizers in the media will turn on her in an instant and give her the Bill Maher treatment.

That Zoey woman is still all over Kotaku, talking about her cyberimplants, what her cat ate, the color of her poo...
Nothing has changed...

Basically this is the main reason a lot of people (including me) don't respect the gamergate movement.  They got so angry at a women game developer because she slept with a game journalist.  This game was basically free and the game journalist didn't write an article about the game during their relationship.  This is what started the whole gamergate movement.  

Around the same time youtubers were getting early access to shadows of mordor if they didn't say anything negative about the game.  Gamergate was relatively silent about this.  Games journalism has had integrity issues before, but it was Quinn's personal life  that got them angry.   Of course it is all about integrity In games journalism...

Just because an issue is relatively small, doesn't make it trivial. I mean, if you honestly believe that first paragraph, what are you doing wasting your time with video games at all? Why should we not fight to make the video game industry a better place? The media can singlehandedly make a game a success or destroy it (if you haven't read Tachi's thread from a few days ago, you really should), should we not try to cut out as much bias as possible so games can get a fair shot?

People also aren't fighting feminism, they are fighting extremist feminism and the obsession with the politically correct. If you have seen the bullshit that Kotaku likes to post, or the Polygon Bayo 2 review (or so many other bullshit pieces, or the hypocrisy in all media when it comes to women's issues vs human issues), then you would see why this stuff is a blight to the industry. And, it is largely part of the corruption in the industry, as many of these pieces are just sensationalist click bait....

I agree that GamerGate should be abandoned, but only in name. The cause is a good one, and to see any gamer rising up against it makes me disappointed in the amount of shit some of you can take. 

To my knowledge, none of those threats were done under the GamerGate name.

When the radicals are the loudest voice, whose to say they don't define the movement? This is what people have done to GamerGate, even though the radicals aren't even close to the loudest voice. Feminism isn't what it used to be....

GamerGate is largely about how the media handled all of these events, with massive censorship, attacks on gamers, radical feminism, and basically a large orchestrated movement to push it all under the rug. GamerGate doesn't care about Zoe Quinn, the only people who bring her up any more are the ones who want to paint her as a victim to be used to attack GamerGate. There is a lot of good writing about GamerGate, unfortunately it tends to get buried under all the people ignorantly calling it a mysogynist movement. Here is one piece that I like: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/25/gamergate-an-issue-with-2-sides/

Yea people said that months ago. Now the hacker group anonymous it's getting involved they're pro gamer gate. This is only just getting started.

I thought this would disappear by now it's clear gamers aren't letting this go.

Ah, it's about feminism?

Then I'm obviously pro-gg then. Feminism is garbage, especially these fools trying to apply it to gaming.

This is probably about as close to true as something like this can get.

I don't care at all about Quinn and I think Sarkeesian is a con artist who should be ignored.  However, when all these gaming media sites launched attacks on the people who play games at the same time, it was clear something was messed up behind the scenes.  Read the Gamasutra piece, which is basically a childish tantrum intended to insult guys who play video-games as a hobby, or the Verge article painting anyone who disagreed as "anti-femanist".  The arrogance of it is off the charts and yet these are the people who are making money off the back of the industry.

I'm simply not going to support these websites or these people who think they control gaming media and can do as they please.