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Evil Hat Games gets GamerGate card game pulled from OBS with boycott threat
« Reply #690 on: December 14, 2014, 05:10:03 AM »
I think it's down to evidence and definitions of terms.
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Evil Hat Games gets GamerGate card game pulled from OBS with boycott threat
« Reply #691 on: December 14, 2014, 06:51:42 AM »
It's not like there weren't 20 warnings, now we're back to Zak's big book of grudges (don't your shoulders ache carrying that around all the time?) that has sweet FA to do with this topic.

I'll leave the thread open for hopefully a return to the actual topic. If that's not forthcoming in the next few hours, then that's all she wrote and people can go talk about rpgs for a change.

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Evil Hat Games gets GamerGate card game pulled from OBS with boycott threat
« Reply #692 on: December 14, 2014, 08:30:55 AM »
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In regards to the negative reputation of MRAs, its simply that the misogynistic tools don't represent an extremist minority, rather the majority. I dare you to find one MRA site online that doesn't have people engaging in rampant sexism. Its rife with it. You'd have about as easy a time finding a KKK member who isn't racist. Does this mean men's rights aren't important nor worthwhile? Not at all. But thats the sad truth of the matter.


http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/

Most of the Honey Badgers are MRA friendly, or directly identify as MRA. Alison, Karen and Hannah in particular have contributed articles to the notorious AVFM. All of them are pretty rabidly anti-feminism. They've interviewed people involved in Gamergate as well, due to the identity politics involved.

If anything I really reccomend Alison Tieman's videos and writings. I think she's pretty sharp in her deconstructions of feminism and sexism and culture's views on gender.
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Evil Hat Games gets GamerGate card game pulled from OBS with boycott threat
« Reply #693 on: December 14, 2014, 08:41:29 AM »
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I think it's down to evidence and definitions of terms.


It sounds like you don't want that evidence to come from actual women, or to let women define what counts, to them, as sexism.

That's all Zak is saying you should do. It's not that tough of a concept.

It's not deflection, or a grudge. It seems like common sense: why not ask women what they consider sexist?

Otherwise, all we've got is dudes in here giving the same-old dude perspective. (And occasionally dredging up a link to somewhere where a woman agreed with them. Hurray, I guess.)

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Evil Hat Games gets GamerGate card game pulled from OBS with boycott threat
« Reply #694 on: December 14, 2014, 08:41:42 AM »
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http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/

Most of the Honey Badgers are MRA friendly, or directly identify as MRA. Alison, Karen and Hannah in particular have contributed articles to the notorious AVFM. All of them are pretty rabidly anti-feminism. They've interviewed people involved in Gamergate as well, due to the identity politics involved.

If anything I really reccomend Alison Tieman's videos and writings. I think she's pretty sharp in her deconstructions of feminism and sexism and culture's views on gender.


Well done.

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