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FRIDAY, OCT 31, 2014 06:30 AM EST Misogyny's scary new warriors: How Gamergate has supplanted the Christian right The evangelical movement is dying a slow death, but secular sexists are ready to carry its torch of hate AMANDA MARCOTTE, ALTERNET Share TOPICS: ALTERNET,MISDGYNY,SEXISM,RACISM,CHRISTIAN RIGHT.LIFE NEWS,POLITICS NEWS 魉6 (Credit Soubrette via iStock Salon) Ihis article originaly appeared on AlterNet Ever since the second wave of feminism started in the 1960s, the opposition movement to feminism has been rooted in and organized around the church. Of course, there have always been secular anti-feminists, but they were never organized into any Alter NEWS & POLITICS coherent movement. In contrast, evangelical and Catholic churches and Christian organizations have done all the yeoman's work of fighting feminism. Christian organizer Phyllis Schlafly shut down the Equal Rights Amendment. Christian conservatives have been the main force fighting reproductive rights. The Supreme Court just dealt a major blow to contraception access at the behest of Christian lawyers arguing on behalf of Hobby Lobby. For five decades now, if you wanted to fight the feminists, you turned your eyes to the church But relying on religion to organize against feminism might be a strategy that's hitting a hard limit: age. As in, younger people are simply not as interested in religion as they used to be. As Adam Lee, writing for the Guardian, details, young people are disengaging with religion generally and the religious right in particular at an amazing rate. Millennials, he writes, are "the least religious generation in American history they're even getting less religious as they get older, which is unprecedented." And the most anti-feminist denominations, the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, are seeing some of the highest levels of drop-off. It would be nice if this drop-offmeant that American anti-feminism was coming to a close and we can look forward to a glorious new era of secularism where challenges to women's equality are few and far between. And maybe that will still happen, as much of the loss of membership in religious right circles is due to young people's disgust with the conservative" part of Christian conservatism. But, unfortunately, there's also a less prominent but increasingly aggressive anti-feminist movement that has no religious component is often downright secular, in fact and is poised to take over and continue the fight against women's equality even as religious dominance declines. To be clear, there have long been non-religious men who are coiled and ready at a moment's notice to defend sexual harassment or wax on with half-baked theories about how evolution “programmed" women to be a submissive or servile class. Anyone who has ever read the comments section under a feminist blog post could tell you that. But secular anti-feminists have largely kept their activities to pompous lecturing of the sort epitomized by atheist Christopher Hitchens in his half-baked essay denying that women evolved to have a sense of humor. Organizing defies the self-image of a born playboy draped in woman-toys that tends to accompany this kind of narcissistic but secular sexism But that may be changing. For years now, a crowd of angry men who are steeped in rage at women has been gathering online, often going by names like "men's rights activists" or up artists." "Maybe some men's anger stems from good old-fashioned misogyny, which is then stoked by political, social and cultural forces that say there's nothing lower m this world than a woman so how dare she … well, anything," writes Jessica Valenti of this crowd Despite calling themselves "activists," most of these men haven't really organized in any meaningful way, but instead spend of their time complaining online about women. Unlike religious right activists, who tend to focus primarily on restricting women's employment and reproductive rights, the angry men of the Internet are most upset with feminist work fighting sexual harassment, sexual abuse and domestic violence. To simplify things Religious anti-feminists focus their hatred on Roe v Wade, but "men's rights" activists are most angry about the Violence Against Women Act. Until recently, their activities to fight against feminism have mostly been constrained to whining online. But this past year has given feminists real reason to worry that secular misogynists have started to get a little more organized. Back in June, the website A Voice For Men threw its first "men's rights" conference, dedicated largely to minimizing the realities of sexual violence and pushing the claim that domestic violence is not a gendered issue. (A claim that is easy enough to disprove.) ALON NEWS POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE TECH BUSINESS SUS that minimizes domestic violence and tries to paint it as primarily the fault of women. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Elam said he objects to "presenting information orn domestic violence as something men can control only, that men need to stop, that we need to approach this as something that's protecting women All this is awful and annoying, but what is really concerning is that this secular, if loathsome, view of gender relations might reach an audience of young men who have no interest in religious arguments against feminism. The creation of a movement called #GamerGate in the past few months has demonstrated how serious a threat this is. A grassroots online movement of mostly men who are angry about feminists working in video game development and criticism has exploded across the Internet and garnered major attention from mainstream media sources. The movement has focused on using harassment campaigns to scare women and gaming publications into falling silent on the issue of sexism in gaming while #GamerGate will likely be unsuccessful in its mission to terrify women nto never speaking out about sexism in gaming, it has caught the attention of anti-feminists who are looking for new recruits amongst the younger set. Right-wing leaders, most prominently anti-feminist Christina Hoff Sommers, with the backing of the American Enterprise Institute, have swarmed #GamerGate circles, seeing the participants as easy marks whose anger at feminists in gaming can be turned into anger at feminists, and at women generally Unfortunately, #Gamer-Gate has already shown more organization acumen than simply bitching on Twitter about how mean women are when they stand up for their rights, as l campaigns to get advertisers to pull out of websites to them for giving #GamerGate negative coverage. As they merge with the men's rights. movement that's already starting to do more besides run anti-woman forums online, they could start to be something that's largely new in American politics: An organized but completely secular anti-feminist movement. So even as religion's influence is waning in the United States, there will still be plenty of people agitating to keep women second-class citizens Amanda Marcotte is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and journalist. She's published two books and blogs regularly at Pandagon, RH Reality Check and Slate's Double X. MORE AMANDA MARCOTTE

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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It's funny how people like Emma Watson at the UN are all like, "why does no one like feminism?", and they decide that if feminism has an image problem… it's men's fault. If the moderates want to fix the image, here are some very simple things they could do.

-Acknowledge the actions of extreme feminists like in this video and condemn them. Maybe I'm missing them, but I've never seen a comment on a video like this saying, "I am a feminst but they are despicable". Tell them feminism wants them to fuck off. If it wants them around, well, that's it for me. We acknowledge, report and condemn people abusing the GG hashtag, why don't feminists ever seem to police their own extremists?

-Admit that feminism is fallible and you don't have to agree with the feminist line on everything, and you might have a better chance at achieving wider support. Feminism's hubris and lack of allowance for any form of debate is massively off putting.

Feminism has become the Church of the 21st century. Dogmatic, unable to be challenged, turning a blind eye to people abusing the banner, eager to control media content and holding up men as the root of all evil by generational guilt, as Christians once blamed Jews for killing Jesus.

I could get behind the idea of gender equality the same way I could get behind the idea of love your neighbor, but that is not what these groups mean for a significant amount of western society.

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