GamerGate also has another hashtag that most people are ignoring. #NotYourShield which was created to show the diversity among GamerGaters.
pretty ironic to use #notyourshield as a literal shield GGers
I'm aware that many women and PoC are against progressive news articles and criticisms because I often discuss such things with a black female friend on my Facebook who is fairly anti-feminism. So I am quite confident that GG is not all white dudes. However I have taken multiple art and media theory courses that break down many forms of film and novels etc to the absolute core, and learned that often it's internalized 'harmless' instances of things that shape how we interact with other and how we create original artwork. I can assure you that I was very anti-feminist (because I "didn't hate men!") only a few years ago (I did a reaction comic to learning that I had enrolled in a Cindy Sherman class that was highly feminist lol).
The truth is Journalism and games journaling is frankly not the right platform for change if the goal is to end pro-feminist news articles and criticism of games. The battlefield is in academia and in writing well researched papers and in creating art itself, not complaining loudly as a big mob. Taking away advertisers does not change people's minds on feminism, and turning the movement anti-bullying merely distracts from the real goal.
So yes I do think GG is a big rabble of voices with no real goal because half a dozen people say it's journalism, and half a dozen people are saying they don't want feminist articles, and these guys over here are mad that someone said something mean about gaming while idolizing a meathead jock who was calling gamers a bunch of babies only months earlier. And that's not including the twerps who are actually sending threats. I can get behind being against corruption in journalism but I can't get behind anti-feminism or turds harassing people out of their homes. You can say it doesn't condone it all you want but the damage is already done.
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