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But of course they didn't and I'm more than positive this is going to continue on for a long time. The Gamergate side is showing they aren't about to back down and the sheer amount of hate they're getting is reinforcing their drive to crush the opposition. Meanwhile, the anti side refuses to be wrong and continues to try to create an oppressed narrative to the uneducated masses that frankly don't want to research the ordeal themselves or refuse to break their own perspective of the possibility they are wrong. My girlfriend gets shit on a lot over the fact she is pro-gg and a feminist; her main complaints is that Anti, Zoey, ect ect aren't feminists--she's not wrong, they're about as feminist as Kim Jong Un is slim--and they're adding to the already toxic image of feminist in today's society. Me personally, I can't say I didn't think all this was going on already. Game "journalism" has been a joke for a long time, and to not regurgitate what has been said here a million times, meh--they had this coming.
It's pretty much why a lot of people (myself being one of them) really don't like Anita or Zoe.
Anita's literally a case, perhaps even the most stereotypical one, of a "fake gamer girl" who pretends to be into it for attention and, in this case, money.
Zoe is just a goddamn sociopathic fraud with no apparent redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Most cases we wouldn't care. Honestly it's kinda karma how many have been willingly scammed. Except the thing is: these people are being presented as the faces of female representation. They're being held up on a pedestal by feminists and tumblrinas alike as people to be admired and emulated.
And all they're doing is re-enforcing awful misconceptions about those who actually are gamers and developers. It shits on an tosses aside women who've actually done things (I've seen a small collection noted in a post, I'll need to find it again sometime) and fosters any hard feelings people would have towards women as well. These people are literally validating misogyny.
Sorry about a-loggin' there but it really gets me how so many people will blindly try and make things worse and defend awful people who make things harder for the people they "care" about and other awful things for something as arbitrary as what's between their legs, gleefully throwing way more people with the same things under the bus.