Why we can never have meaningful dialog about #GamerGate

The problem right now as I see it in GamerGate is while we complain about video game ‘journalists’ they still control the narrative. And sadly it’s the narrative decided by Anita Sarkeesian et al. and they gain massively from this situation. It doesn’t matter what we say as a group and it doesn’t matter what we do. It doesn’t change what gets reported. It’s the same tired nonsense from 2 months ago. It doesn’t matter what good is done, as far as these people are concerned we’re scum and any criticism is seen as an attack on feminism.

@FemFreq has a vested interest in proving sexism whether it’s there or not so they are not going to back down in any way. The original goal of GamerGate was to strip the corruption from video game journalism. The same corruption that was letting @FemFreq force their agenda down our throats and it’s what GamerGate has failed to really change in any meaningful way.

Any threats, weather they’re faked, come from a troll or from inside GamerGate are used to prove that we’re all misogynistic because that’s exactly what @FemFreq wants, it’s proving their point. Mainstream media are happy to go along with it and brand gamers and GamerGate as <adjective>. They’ve done it time and time again, gamers are easy targets for them.

Are there threats? Most definitely, where are they coming from? Nobody really knows. One thing I can say with certainty is that they’re not representative of gamers or GamerGate.

Two months in we’re still not getting any better representation, if anything it’s worse then before and it’s getting to the point where I feel it’s bad for future career prospects to get involved in this.