Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "#GamerGate: Jennie Bharaj Wants An Apology" video.
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Jennie Bharaj is a bona-fide nerd, in my opinion. I can tell just from the way she talks, and the way she talked in the Huffington Post interview. She's passionate about games and doesn't want to see anything bad happen to them, but she's not eloquent and doesn't speak well under pressure. I wish her the best, but I also wish she would stick to a written medium, or take a few speech classes.
Dick Santorum :: In response to the comment just above this one, that is correct. The reason that misogyny and other bigotry was brought into this discussion is purely to detract from the actual issues at hand. We have ample evidence to have most of these fucks lose their job in any other industry, but it just so happens in this one that their clique is so closely-knit and so dominant in games journalism that the opposite has happened. When the 14 "gamers are dead" articles were released simultaneously during August, evidence was dug up to suggest that this was indeed planned (or at least discussed) several years in advance of it actually happening; "this" being the death of the word "gamer" and its identity as "cishet white male." You can find it in the stickied threads on 8chan.co/gg .
Personally, I believe this is a result of, at the very root, the co-opting of various civil rights fields of study in academia (most notably, feminism). The type of "feminism" normally associated with man-hating and projected rape dates back to the 70's and earlier, and has undeniably taken over the field in academics. Now, there's a new generation that went to college learning under all these extremist professors, primarily in California. These gaming "journalists" are their offspring, if you will. That's my take on it. Others have much more tinfoil-y theories, some of which have merit, but I am not willing to put stock in any of them yet. Right now, to me, the only clear link is the one to 3rd wave feminism in academia.
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