#gamergate

I love this, because it really just perfectly demonstrates how leftists just don't understand anything at all.

If anything Epstein is the ultimate demonstration that Gamergate was right because GG's assertion that news outlets will gladly coverup the bad behavior of those they're in bed with (literally in Zoe Quinn's case) extends all the way up to the highest reaches of the government in ways we could scarcely even fathom.

And instead of connecting those dots and admitting that just maybe the """Chuds""" were onto something, the Leftists would rather do what they always do and steal from Far Right conspiracies by blaming the Jews for it while somehow still insisting they're somehow better or different.

Oh for fucks sake.

Marhas did consider herself a drag queen.

Marsha is not every trans woman.

She considered herself, and was often called, a "street queen" a derogatory term for transgender women back then to imply that we were just drag queens who didn't know how to take off the make up.

The lines are not "thin" they are actually pretty fucking clear cut.

Drag queen: Someone who peforms femininity to an extreme degree, -typically but not always, men-.

Transgender woman: a woman who was coercively assigned male at birth.

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"transandrodork" is not a "sexist nickname" it is a term used to refer to people who support an MRA/Gamergate-esque movement within the trans community. Oh sorry, didn't mean to use "MRA" the sexist slur so offhandedly. See how ridiculous that is?

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Your "understanding" is based on child's level of historical and political literacy.

Many black people used to -and still do- call themselves racial slurs which were levied at them over the years, that does not mean that I, a white person, can call black people any of that.

In the same way that you, a TME person, cannot call transgender women drag queens or imply that the line separating us is thin.

Black trans women are decentered and erased from pretty much every modern trans rights movement. You are not helping this by calling one of the most well know black transgender women a drag queen because she did not have the nessecary language to describe her gender during her life. That so many transfems have passed with that label as one of their only form of self is a great tragedy.

And it is not because we are the same because we are the same as drag queens, it is because drag culture by and large is built on mocking transfemininity.

As for how that "says nothing about how you value the experiences of trans women, which in fact you deeply cherish."

You are literally arguing with two transgender women about how actually comparing trans women to drag queens isn't misogynistic.

You value the "experiences" of our dead sisters, and you only do so because they are no longer alive to argue with you about this.

This is truly stiff competition for the worst case of willful false equivalence we've ever seen.

So, for those not aware: Ongoing embarrassment to gamers and the gaming industry, Mark Kern (former lead on FireFall), has been desperately trying to get Gamergate 2 going on X/Twitter... well after others have given up. If you need to get caught up on Mark, I recommend this video by documentary maker and experienced game developer, Dead Domain:

One of the latest fiascos in this mix has been the comparison of responses to character designs from Hades 2 (Aphrodite, left) and Stellar Blade (protagonist Eve, right). The post isn't by Mark, but is part of the general harassment campaign he's trying to lead.

If you're somehow not familiar with Aphrodite, she's the Ancient Greek goddess of love, lust and hot girl shit. It is absolutely perfect characterization for her to show up to a battle (or anything else) nude but for her hair teasingly covering the intimate parts of her body. But the buried lede here is, you don't fight her in Hades and nothing about Hades 2 indicates she'll fight there either, she just likes the aesthetic and has no reason not to indulge.

Stellar Blade will release on 26 April 2024, so we can't really give an informed discussion of her character. But what we do know is the studio head is the illustrator from Blade & Soul, Eve is described as being a member of "the 7th Airborne Squad" engaged in an "operation to reclaim the planet from the Naytiba", and the promotion material promises "an enthralling narrative filled with mature themes, mystery and revelation. Embrace the relentless pace, with no time to pause between moments where critical, story-changing decisions are made."

It's to be compared to games like Nier: Automata, Devil May Cry 5, Jedi: Fallen Order and Sekiro. And the screenshots look like this:

And yeah, unlike Bayonetta she's not supposed to be an unstoppable force of nature (and fashion) who is immune to self-doubt, she's supposed to be the scrappy underdog last survivor of her team.

Weird they gave her a costume that conveys... the opposite of literally everything they're supposed to be trying to tell you about her.

In October 2014, lawyer and free-speech advocate Ken White (creator of the legal blog Popehat) published a widely discussed essay titled "Ten Short Rants About GamerGate." His perspective applied a First Amendment and legal framework to the controversy, addressing both the movement's participants and its critics.

Popehat condemned the toxic mob behavior, doxing, and severe threats directed at women in the gaming industry, maintaining that harassment is not "free speech."