Sexism, god help us (3 Viewers)

[nooleen]

i posted this a while ago; i haven't re-read it but i think it was a pretty good article. i don't know if we're meant to be scoffing at anything published on salon these days though

a look at the disproportionate influence of zealots in the context of the latest sub-gamergate quasi-scandal

Sci-fi’s right-wing backlash: Never doubt that a small group of deranged trolls can ruin anything (even the Hugo Awards) - Salon.com

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I didn't even know about the sci-fi fiction version of gamergate, although I suppose I could have guessed it was happening.

Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters | WIRED

Amazing!

"Their leader is a self-described libertarian blogger named Theodore Beale."

Isn't it always!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It's actually about ethics in pew-pew lasers.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Ha! It fucking is!

Hahaha.

Oh, man. The internet never stops giving.

Birth of the Puppies
To understand the Puppies, it helps to know their pedigrees. All are sci-fi authors. All are past Hugo nominees (but none of them winners). To many, this goes a long way towards explaining the Puppies’ motivation: entitled outrage in the wake of defeat. To the Puppies, those are fighting words. As Brad Torgersen, one of the Sad Puppy leaders told me, he and his compatriots “could care less about a silver rocket ship that looks like a marital aid.” (Though this begs the question: Why target them?) The Puppy campaigns, he said, are about just one thing: fairness.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Oh, this guy is a beauty

Nonetheless, based on his voluminous writings, it can be said that Theodore Beale—who writes fiction as a hobby while working as a game designer—openly opposes racial diversity, homosexuality, and women’s suffrage. Beale quibbles with those assertions, as he did with me when I reached him at his home in Northern Italy. For example, he says he doesn’t oppose all women’s suffrage, just women (and most men) voting in a representative democracy, like the one we have, um, in America. The reason: “Women are very, very highly inclined to value security over liberty” and thus are “very, very easy to manipulate.” (He favors direct democracy—and, obviously, men). At one point, he emailed that he would be “very disappointed” if I failed to quote theWall Street Journal’s label for him: “the most despised man in science fiction.”

Hahaha. This is gold right here.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Ugh, if this is your leader, you need to pick another side. or stop dressing up as a wizard altogether.

A beat, and then he added: “I don’t consider all black people to be half-savages. I mean, some people are. Here in Europe, for example, we have actual proper Africans, not African-Americans. This leads to problems, like people shitting on top of the closed toilets. They don’t know how to use indoor plumbing, okay? This is not civilized behavior.”

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Great stuff. Thank you guys.

I love a good nerd fight.

 

[Lili Marlene]

These days I'm on the side of the school bullies, maybe they knew where all this was headed

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

"Their leader is a self-described libertarian blogger named Theodore Beale."

Isn't it always!

Theodore used to be such a respectable name.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Theodore used to be such a respectable name.

It only ever had a veneer of respectability!

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

A veneers not enough anymore.
I need to find another environmentally minded nut-job to look up to.

 

[nooleen]

www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436525758/how-teachers-unconscious-bias-play-into-the-hands-ofgender-disparity

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It’s true – being handsome is a living hell | Rupert Myers

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

It’s true – being handsome is a living hell | Rupert Myers

So that explains my failures thus far.

 

[Space]

Is any relation to Kevin Myers?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Quinnexperienced - Why I Just Dropped The Harassment Charges The Man...

blergh, people are the worst. Poor woman.

 

[therealjohnny]

Quinnexperienced - Why I Just Dropped The Harassment Charges The Man...

blergh, people are the worst. Poor woman.

just awful


this whole thing had me scratching my head. The entire concept of this orchestrated harassment campaign for ...mad reasons..and ..well everything about it is beyond me.

I had to got o wiki to try and make sense of it

still baffling

Gamergate controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[nooleen]

Science and sexism: In the eye of the Twitterstorm

i particularly like the graphic showing that about 80% of the 'shirtstorm' tweets were from men

 

[Lili Marlene]

Kesha Billboard Awards Performance Blocked By Dr. Luke's Label | Pitchfork

oh man, it's like they want the entire internet against them

 

[Mormon Nailer]

That Time Donald Trump Humiliated Miss Universe for Gaining Weight

Holy fuck - everything about this is awful. But pay particular note to how the media reported the whole thing, completely uncritically.