idiggory wrote:
But considering what women have faced with gamergate, it's deflection. That doesn't change the fact that it's still a **** move, but presenting it in terms of "see, gamergaters get harassed, too" just underscores the fact that you're not really appreciating the differences in severity here.
This moves into deflection as well. "Well, getting someone's personal information to dial in a fake emergency call to their house is bad, but..."
No, it's just fu
cked up behavior by bullies who are on the feminist side of the Gamergate debate. Full stop. Call it for what it is, denounce it and move on. Does anyone really need to play "compare and contrast" to decide if what happened here is "as bad" or "not as bad" as other behavior? What's the point of that beyond score keeping?
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It's like when a woman says, "Men are a threat to women due to high rates of rape, assault, and other acts of physical or verbal violence" and you respond with "Not all men."
By the same token, if you claim to be against rape, harassment, assault, etc and someone say "This guy was just assaulted" the correct response isn't "But it's not the same as when it happens to a woman because..."
That's both sides. You can't pretend to be legitimately concerned about these things when every time it comes from your own side results in "Yeah but..."
Edited, Oct 28th 2014 9:31am by Jophiel