You want to clean up gaming journalism, that's awesome.
But you need to clean up your own house first. No, I'm not saying you
individually are responsible for this stuff, but you absolutely can't succeed with that objective until you decontaminate the hashtag.
Hm, you seem to think you're talking to Gamergaters here in this thread. You're not. I for one could give a crap about "cleaning up gaming journalism". If I buy a game mag its for the pretty pictures or to steal maps/level layouts for a
REAL RPG.
I have never used ANY hashtag, avoiding Twitter like the intellectual abyss that it is, so could care less about cleaning up the Gamergate hashtag.
But I am in a perfectly fine position to criticize the the vocally anti-gamergater's for their hipocrisy, lies, and generally unpleasantness. So one could just as easily say "Have a problem with Gamergate? Clean up your own house first".
And Chris Kluwe is the guy who "was pushing for locker-room-culture change while at some point he cut a hole in his pants to mock children being raped" ?
That bit? That's what a significant chunk of this whole thread is.
Yeah, what you'll find here is posters who don't automatically swallow the party line and drink the kool-aid just because its being passed around. I'm interested in the truth, not the biased accusations of one group of idiots online or another. I realize on other forums online, Gamergate is a gone conclusion: "they are an evil organization devoted to destroying women in gaming!" However, the actual evidence paints a much different , and like everything in the real world, much more complicated picture.
If you've got an argument to make, that's great. Join in, provide your proof, and watch how reasonable people will actually change their mind if a competent debate is engaged. But if you're expecting anyone to roll over and go "OK, you say so, so that must be the way it is", you've go the wrong forum.
Convictions cause convicts.