What Is GamerGate Currently Ruining: the SXSW panel selection process
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whatisgamergatecurrentlyruining.barrl.netPosted Aug 19, 2015, 1:00 AM UTC
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whatisgamergatecurrentlyruining.barrl.netThe third panel doesn’t actually have anything to do with harassment at all– it’s about virtual reality– but they’re still targeting it, because Brianna Wu is on it.
It's totally about ethics, tho, guys.
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Are you purposely misgendering? I thought GG weren't transphobic?
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Do you need to ask?
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This is mock surprise, while I wait to see if mod thinks its worthy of deletion. Just calling it out tbh.
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You don't even know if Brianna is transgender and it's none of your or anyones fucking bussiness in the first place and and even further kindly fuck off to the deepest pits of the nearest septic tank from where you drink and take your transphobic shit 'le science' bullshit with you, you utter pig.
I am not gonna let you demean, deny, marginalise and abuse transgender people all over the world with your bullshit bigotry.
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Why does it matter? Why is her presence relevant? Are you saying that Gamergate is about stalking the LW's after all?
I thought your official story was that they were irrelevant. And yet, their presence on a panel about VR at a conference is apparently vitally important.
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That Hansel, so ethical right now.
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much ethics
real unbiased
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GamerGate: unable to turn left
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I remember one of the ballot-stuffing little ignoramuses complaining that they thought Wu wasn't 'qualified' to be on a VR panel.
...A woman dev running a game company...not 'qualified' to offer her views on new tech...
(facepalms slowly into a VR headset)
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Women can't VR because they don't have the 3D-enhancing Y chromosome. It's just science! ^^/s
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Yeah, they've been at this one for a couple of days now. I'm honestly surprised there's a voting process for panels in the first place - and this sort of behavior is precisely why.
Everyone thinks downvotes are no big deal as long as hardly anyone bothers to visit the site except small groups of fans. Then one day you get GamerGated.
Oh, hey!
Yeah, well. I don't think anyone can really afford to be naive about this sort of thing anymore. It is, sadly, not likely to be going away anytime soon.
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Beyond just upvoting the panels they're downvoting? Not that I know of.
well anyone in the mood to do that?
That's... kinda not what we are here. This isn't an activism sub, we don't point at targets and go "oh hey everyone go do this thing". We don't brigade and we don't do mass emailing or whatever. Despite what the Gators think, we're not some organization dedicated to some great cause. Which isn't to say that we all do nothing, but what any of us do is our own choice - and that's it.
(Personally, I am an activist, but I keep that separate from what I do here - which is comment on or laugh about GG.)