htown1980: Proving
all claims made by
all #gg'ers? Surely you're not that naive ;)
227: Of course a movement with zero entry barrier is bound to invite in some crazies who ramble incoherently about lizard people and the illuminati, but the central arguments of the movement re: journalistic corruption and failures of disclosure are absolutely provable.
Take Nathan Grayson, who if the media is to believed, is just an innocent little game reporter who had some allegations against him disproved. Except he has some massive failures of disclosure, having written about Quinn twice (
and [url=https://archive.today/R8a9m]two) despite
appearing in the game's credits all the way back in February 2013 (check the page's source).
Then we have the other conflicts of disclosure; I've already linked you to the Patricia Hernandez thing, so I'll spare you the barrage of links that proves it. Funny that none of the mainstream publications have brought up either her or Grayson's failures to disclose previously-existing relationships, instead choosing to spin things to sound like we've produced no evidence of corruption whatsoever.
Then there are the claims that SJWs feel like minorities belong to them. I'll let this link speak for itself:
https://archive.today/l1xUe Then there's the
hate Pakman's receiving (
including from some very familiar people) for having the audacity to ask questions and try to untangle what's going on. Apparently the only acceptable thing to do is buy into the idea that GG are misogynists and terrorists and not ask any questions.
Even those who feel that SJWs are trying to change their games—while usually fringe members and not the kind of thing I'd 100% agree is a bad thing—are lent credence by
some of the insane things Jonathan McIntosh has posted.
How about our argument that the media at large is proving to be incredibly unprofessional? We have a
Time writer favoriting Sam Biddle's bullying tweet (he's
hardly the only one, either). Or how about the guy who wrote the Newsweek article trying to spin numbers to make us look like misogynists? He tweeted
and [url=https://archive.today/1arjD]this, no doubt in support of his beleaguered colleague as advertisers were jumping ship. These are truly some shining beacons of professionalism, don't you think?
Or how about the argument that game journalists aren't even willing to have the discussion with us? Ben Kutchera:
and [url=http://i.xomf.com/flhql.png]two.
Jason Schreier. How about those who aren't game journalists, but who are listened to by them? Surely we can build meaningful dialogue through them, right?
Yeah, about that. And how about the argument that harassment coming from those opposing GG goes unreported on?
Take the guy who advocated doxxing our supporters, for example. I thought people were having to condemn any and all harassment coming from their side, and yet I've yet to hear anyone on the other side complain and try to get that tweet taken down. That's not even mentioning the
blacklisting from that user (
and others).
Still waiting on proof that we're a bunch of raving misogynists with no proof of corruption who are only using ethics as a smokescreen to drive women and more diverse games out of the industry, by the way.
Brilliant post and with links - got a good laugh reading some Johny MaCintosh tweets. I haven't LOLed that much in ages! X-D He can put that baby babble out on twitter but as Sarkesian's appearance on Stephen Colbert showed, anything even remotely resembling critical thinking is another thing altogether.
