OK, I'm in. I've sometimes watched GG vs anti-GG for a while, but I didn't want to get involved. The GG side seemed much more reasonable, but I thought (hoped?) that the SJWs could just be safely ignored. Then 3 things happened: First, there is of course reddit banning subreddits and lying about the actual reasons. Ellen Pao is a terrible person, and she's retweeting Brianna Wu, but the real issue is, I think, that the reddit board of directors has been too afraid of being labeled anti-feminist by media to deal with Pao, and now that mainstream media has apparently decided that everyone who complained or left for Voat is a whiny troll, they probably can't change course now. Second, I talked to one of my parents and they were telling me about how Mattress Girl is a feminist hero, when she's actually a lying sociopath. Thanks for that, New York Times. Third, I only recently actually looked at the wikipedia page for gamergate. What. The. Fuck. That is some actual 1984 shit right there. I've been watching GG stuff since the beginning, and that is the most biased piece of shit I've ever had the misfortune to see on wikipedia. This was my reaction. And then, I spent some time looking up just what is going on in the world of SJWs. Right now, I feel a lot like I did when I was watching the Iraq War proceed on "evidence" that seemed obviously wrong. SJWs are a cult, and it's growing. I've seen people fall into it, and it has not been pretty. If Gamergate is standing up to them, then I'll stand with you, for whatever that's worth. Now, I'm not going to argue with people on Twitter or Tumblr; I don't even have an account on either. But I am one of those autist losers who enjoys actually learning things when I'm not busy with neckbeard loser entertainment like KSP or LoGH. I'm usually a lot like Mr. Rogers, but right now I am literally angry. My first impulse was to run OSPREY and start thinking about DNA viruses again. My second impulse was to open up my notes on machine learning and contact my computer security enthusiast friends. Those would probably be inappropriate responses, but maybe I'll think of something more constructive once I've calmed down a bit. Radical SocJus as a movement is so powerful because it gives people easy ways to feel superior to other people, and sometimes easy excuses for not being successful. It gives people a community, some easy accusations they can make that will be believed more than they should be, and some powerful allies in media and university administrations. Those are some powerful forces against us. All we have is being right and smarter people. But I believe – I have to believe – that is enough. Editors at newspapers and producers of TV and radio shows don't want their people disagreeing with each other outside of the specially allowed arguments. They want stories that fit an image and a narrative. So, criticizing WMD evidence before the Iraq War wasn't allowed. Praising Edward Snowden too much? Not allowed. Saying what Gamergate is actually about? Not. Allowed. Gawker Media and Huffington Post are very much aligned with SJWs. And sadly, so are The New York Times and The Guardian. Places like Huffington Post and Gawker live on advertising revenue. They want views, and the easiest way to get views is pandering and controversy. Remember how Youtube comment sorting favored controversial comments, and the result was such shit that TotalBiscuit and Pewdiepie had to disable comments despite Youtube penalizing that? That's exactly how ad-funded media on the internet is working right now. This is what feminism has been corrupted into. This is just one of the results. SJWs, in their desire to feel better than other people, have become increasingly radical, and taken accusations of racism and sexism so far that, for example, police in Rotherdam were prevented from investigating people who had abused over a thousand girls because the criminals were immigrants and officials were afraid of being called racists. Well, here are my thoughts so far on how to fight. alternatives You should tell people to watch some gameplay on youtube before buying a game, and ignore articles about games. It really is a much better way to decide if it's worth getting a game. create Anti-GG people and SJWs are not funny or skilled, in general. We should try to make actual content that mocks SJWs, whether that's memes or actual games. (Anyone feel like doing a Vivian 3d model...?) IMO, SJWs use condescension and mockery instead of actual arguments not only because they're bad at logic, but also because that's what they're most afraid of. enemy of my enemy These days, the media world is mostly divided into liberal and conservative media. KiA and TiA have become the enemy of liberal media without becoming the ally of conservative media, and that's a shitty position to be in. I'm certainly not saying GG should be allied with the Republican party. First, conservative media has historically been anti-gamer and anti-nerd, going back to scare stories about Dungeons and Dragons, or maybe earlier. At least that happens less these days. Second, GG is not about liberal vs conservative politics. However, I figure, if you get the chance to be involved with some conservative media, maybe try to mention some of the worst SJW bullshit. #killallmen and #cisscum and so on are not things that normal people consider acceptable. bullfighting A matador doesn't get into a fistfight with a bull. He distracts the bull repeatedly with a phantom target, then takes his sword and executes the bull with precision. Maybe it's possible to fragment SJWs with multiple targets. SJW groups basically follow Rules for Radicals which means they tend to be held together by an enemy and define themselves in opposition to it. poison pills SJWs definitely aren't known for their understanding of complex systems and indirect effects the way that people who like hardcore video games are. There are, I think, a number of political initiatives that SJWs and their allies would overall approve of but which would actually seriously hurt them. I have a couple ideas about that. Well, that was a long post, but I feel a little better now. So...hello everyone! How are you? Have you stretched your calves today? Maybe you should if you haven't.