Shorter: Gamer-gate.
Below the fold is a repost of a (attempted) comment I made to a post at a website touting the “Tracking and Mocking of the New Misogyny” in response to the backlash against the “women in gaming” coalition that seem determined to mislead a lazy and gullible US media into a distracting corner.
Meanwhile, women suffering honest-to-goodness violence and repression outside the rarified world of online gaming are the real victims. Why are these hyper-sensitive new era flowers are so outraged about a tiny thorn in their toe while the serious violence against women is a much greater unresolved problem? I dunno. I guess I don’t think enough like a gamer girl to be able to figure this one out. It looks like a whole lot of personal aggrandizement and manufactured victimhood for the most part. Maybe I’m sensitized by the fact that it’s the same weak strategy they manufactured for use against the top men in the skeptic movement? To wit:
The Tim Channel 