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The stuff people talk about with regards to rights involving reproduction usually glosses over the fact that many physically disabled women and WOC inmates have been forcibly sterilized for years now. 

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The stuff people talk about with regards to rights involving reproduction usually glosses over the fact that many physically disabled women and WOC inmates have been forcibly sterilized for years now. 

 

Those were the bits that I saw that was really really bad, because I read that it happened in 2006 ~ 2010?  I mean holy shit that's recent.

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The stuff people talk about with regards to rights involving reproduction usually glosses over the fact that many physically disabled women and WOC inmates have been forcibly sterilized for years now.

This is why it's really fundamentally wrong that these things are allowed to happen.

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Yet again a metaphor used to describe perceived slights against white, heterosexual, cismen is actually a real injustice that a minority group actually faces.

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The other aspect of it is that it's a sentiment borne of the idea that feminists hate sex, which is so mindblowingly off base that nobody with any sense could believe it. When I hear people repeat that I can only imagine that they're being purposefully obtuse.

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The funny thing about that is just that the idea that feminists HATE sex is born of some really savvy right-wing propaganda dating back to the 80s plus the whole idea of feminists wanting to strike down objectification and sexual exploitation. But given that men can't even fathom sex outside of that kind of image, it is interpreted as "all feminists hate porn" "all feminists hate sex/are prudes" "feminists believe all men are rapists." 

 

Granted, there were definitely strains of some of these things in second wave feminism but it was based on some reasonable logic having to do with power dynamics, which again, men neglect to understand or care about because it puts them squarely culpable and responsible for abusing said power dynamics. I don't like second wave for a lot of reasons, but they were onto some things even if their discourse was rudimentary and overly unnuanced at the time. 

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The really ridiculous thing about all that is that the women I know who are most interested in and fascinated by sex are also the most hardcore feminists I know. Obviously theyre passionate about things like consent and rape culture, but they also love learning about sex, having sex, the science of sex, etc. Actually, their knowledge about and love of sex blows all the mras/puas out of the water.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6AibgptNxc

 

Aurini put a rough draft of The Sarkeesian Effect on YouTube! It's as terrible and poorly made as everyone expected it would be! Its audio levels and dialogue quality are all over the place! The Jack Thompson interview is in there! Thompson trots out the party line about Anita using her death threats as a form of self-promotion. It's... it's really weird to hear Jack Thompson parroting GamerGate talking points.

 

RE: Mark Kern, every time I see something he's said, he tops the last thing in terms of pure stupidity. It's kind of infuriating, you guys.

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That's not surprising, given that the former views sex as a hobby and the latter as a magical talisman that will somehow transform them into real boys.

This owns.

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The really ridiculous thing about all that is that the women I know who are most interested in and fascinated by sex are also the most hardcore feminists I know. Obviously theyre passionate about things like consent and rape culture, but they also love learning about sex, having sex, the science of sex, etc. Actually, their knowledge about and love of sex blows all the mras/puas out of the water.

 

This mirrors my experience. There's some obvious issues with how this is sometimes played for "feminism is sexy" marketing (because it would still be worthwhile if it wasn't), but I guess it's not terribly surprising that pushing for something to be enjoyed without shame, coercion or bartering speaks to thinking highly of that thing.

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It's totally delicious that the evil magician leaked a crappy demo version of the thing they want more money for! 

 

It isn't surprising. Aurini wants his stuff to be out earlier than Owen's, but has been slacking off to get more money... so he just publishes whatever he has at the moment. That of course lessens the impact the later movie will have, which has become irrelevant for Aurini, yet not for Owen, who seems to live that ridiculous party line. I'd laugh about the self sabotage, but they've been going at that for months now, so there's not even an impact in that. What the heck, maybe David Futrelle can milk some fun out of this (edit: All right, he did :) ).

 

The audio particularly e.g. in the Honey Badger segment is absurdly bad. Jesus, for 70,000 bucks, you'd think you'd get a proper mic. That is, if the money's spent on the movie, of course.

 

I'm also particularly disappointed that they haven't made even the slightest effort to sound in any way more coherent or credible than usual. It's not the kind of bullshit you'd even want to disprove or argue against. It's just bullshit, it smells really bad and you'd rather put your nose elsewhere.

 

So, Aurini has his probably final version out! On to the same crap with Owen's voiceover.

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And in other news....for fuck's sake, one of the board members of the Society of Professional Journalists is going to host a live debate between the "sides" of Gamergate. He's had a whole series of posts about gg over the last week. Most recently, he announced the committee that will select the speakers...and the committee just happens to be all male.

 

As a follow-up to this ridiculous thing, wherein a somewhat clueless and self-important journalist from outside the industry stumbled up on #GamerGate and decided that the problem was no one giving the movement a chance to explain itself, things were chugging along quite nicely until the arrangements for AirPlay, the conference-in-a-conference hosting the #GamerGate panels that Koretzky is organizing, were announced on July 13. Sure, no gaming journalists or feminist critics had agreed to be a part of AirPlay, about which Koretzky seemed disappointed but unphased, and the board for the Society of Professional Journalists had given its blessing but not endorsement, specifically requesting that its logo be removed from the AirPlay website, but there was every chance for the project to succeed at its goal of providing an entry point for gaming consumers and non-gaming journalists to come together and talk about ethics.

 

And then, a day later, Koretzky makes a post titled "Maybe I Was Wrong." One of his primary panelists apparently threw a shit fit about only being given fifteen minutes (instead of the grueling fifty that he was promised, what lies) to introduce a planned two-hour panel with a brief history of #GamerGate. Koretzky claims to have weathered an hour-long storm of immature racist insults, even though the panelist knew that he was keeping him from dinner and his family with it, and left the matter to simmer. Keep in mind, this is someone chosen by a committee of #GamerGate figures as someone who best represents them, but of course, once Koretzky posted the story, he was buried under an avalanche of "No True Scotsman" and vitriol about airing #GamerGate's dirty laundry for everyone to see, never mind that they previously required that he stream all six hours of the initial planning meeting for AirPlay in the name of transparency, which #GamerGate is all about but only when it makes them look good and not like angry and entitled children. Koretzky posts some of the worst tweets here, but don't worry, he still thinks that hearing "I told you so" from critics of #GamerGate is just as bad as being subjected to an offensive tirade from someone to whom he's donated hundreds of man-hours and man-dollars to give an uncontested platform for... whatever, so a middle ground is still worth having. Several comments claim that human dumpster Sargon of Akkad has volunteered to replace the pissed-off panelist, great.

 

I really can't believe this. I don't last more than ten seconds in the comments of the three above posts. Buzzfeed's coverage is extremely depressing but spot-on for the most part.

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....got famous for kicking himself in the balls, is generally just a youtuber with a huge insecurity problem who also is now an authority on feminism and social justice because he picks fights with gators.)

 

wat the fug is a gator?? for some reason im thinking of Airboats, belligerent floridians, and crawfish (might be time to go grab some lunch)

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And then, a day later, Koretzky makes a post titled "Maybe I Was Wrong." One of his primary panelists apparently threw a shit fit about only being given fifteen minutes (instead of the grueling fifty that he was promised, what lies) to introduce a planned two-hour panel with a brief history of #GamerGate. Koretzky claims to have weathered an hour-long storm of immature racist insults, even though the panelist knew that he was keeping him from dinner and his family with it, and left the matter to simmer. Keep in mind, this is someone chosen by a committee of #GamerGate figures as someone who best represents them, but of course, once Koretzky posted the story, he was buried under an avalanche of "No True Scotsman" and vitriol about airing #GamerGate's dirty laundry for everyone to see, never mind that they previously required that he stream all six hours of the initial planning meeting for AirPlay in the name of transparency, which #GamerGate is all about but only when it makes them look good and not like angry and entitled children. Koretzky posts some of the worst tweets here, but don't worry, he still thinks that hearing "I told you so" from critics of #GamerGate is just as bad as being subjected to an offensive tirade from someone to whom he's donated hundreds of man-hours and man-dollars to give an uncontested platform for... whatever, so a middle ground is still worth having. Several comments claim that human dumpster Sargon of Akkad has volunteered to replace the pissed-off panelist, great.

 

I know that saying "I told you" is almost always unproductive, but man, does Koretzky ever deserve to hear that. 

 

And speaking of comments sections, I enjoyed making it three comments in before closing the tab.  Hoo boy, a gamergate supporter accusing someone of making mountains out of molehiles. 

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...and Eron Gjoni in his twitter comments, backseat driving gamergate outrage as usual. Am I wrong, or is that yet another violation of his restraining order? Can someone finally lock that guy up? :mellow:

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wat the fug is a gator?? for some reason im thinking of Airboats, belligerent floridians, and crawfish (might be time to go grab some lunch)

 

gator is a popular corruption of 'gater, aka gamergater

 

...and Eron Gjoni in his twitter comments, backseat driving gamergate outrage as usual. Am I wrong, or is that yet another violation of his restraining order? Can someone finally lock that guy up? :mellow:

 

As I have found out personally, it's very hard to get police to actually move on internet violations of restraining orders. 

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Gawker did a thing tonight. That thing being outing someone's sexuality. Someone not notable. Someone that runs a business that competes with Gawker.

 

Nobody is thrilled with the outlet, and for good reason.

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Swinging this back to Goobergate, they're co-opting the situation to push their masking narrative of "ethics!" to tell people not to visit Kotaku and other sites. Also that Milo douchebag is acting all outraged even though he's been, in the past, pro-doxxing and other privacy-revealing. He calls it "citizen journalism."

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Gawker did a thing tonight. That thing being outing someone's sexuality. Someone not notable. Someone that runs a business that competes with Gawker.

 

Nobody is thrilled with the outlet, and for good reason.

 

Even better: They outed someone thanks to information from someone who basically said, "Yeah, I'm blackmailing this person, can you help me out?"

 

Having just Googled this, it feels like you're deliberately cutting the context from a short story to make it sound worse. A male escort had sex with the married male CFO of a company, tried to blackmail them, they refused, so the escort took their story to Gawker who published it, almost certainly because the person was a major figure at a rival company, rather than a notable public figure. The full story is still plenty scummy.

 

The "He's not notable" angle put me to thinking though, as I saw it mentioned here and in several articles covering Gawker's article. It implies that what Gawker did would be more acceptable if he were a public figure, which seems silly when I think of it that way. Why is it more acceptable to enable blackmail and publish someone's private mistakes if that person is well-known?

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I thought the implication was that Gawker wouldn't care if this wasn't a notable rival and that showed how it was an intentionally underhanded ploy. Not that the reduced notability made it more acceptable.

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