And just in case someone still needed evan moar convincing...
Gjoni admitted he posted his rant for entertainment value. Still think he was telling the truth?
****ing hell. I can't believe you derive that conclusion from what he said there. Read what he's talking about. He's saying that the whole document that he was writing was becoming boring TL DR. He says that he needed a ton of evidence and he put it in, but the problem was that it was becoming a legal kind of document that no one would ever read, which would enable others to dismiss his rant (because, again no one would read it). So he added "entertainment value". This is not a lie, he says he changed the tone so it could become readable for the long rant that it is.
I mean, forget all about this, that comes from a link your twitter friend posted (
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?563624):
In the weeks leading up to the publication of “thezoepost,” Gjoni said he consulted with more than a dozen friends and colleagues, mostly men and women in the Boston tech scene, about the content of the article and the potential fallout. One of them, Rachel Martin, is a 25-year-old freelance designer who described herself as a radical feminist. Martin described Gjoni as “gentle and conscientious” and said that she condoned the publication of “thezoepost” because of her own past as a victim of emotional abuse, which she felt Quinn had committed against her friend.
My emphasis. Yeah it really looks like the general sort of thing a liar would do. Asking friends and even his mother (!) for advice to whether if he should publish his story or not.
The overwhelming abuse that ensued (and most of it might have been systemic, not malicious, in the sense of how the internet with its twitter and facebooks and so on are structured in a way that amplified all of this to magnitudes that no one really expected) should not be attributed to that lone sad man. The "Quinnspiracy" might have prompted the people who then surged in #gamergate to high gear, but these are not the same things.
Right then.
Prove it.
I had, in a previous post. Pay attention.
The trail is not that hard to follow, it's quite simple and unspectacular. In this regard I disagree with many gamergaters who think this is a "big feminist conspiracy!" No it's not a "conspiracy". That word implies something nasty was being coordinated in secrecy. It was nothing like that. It was just ideology from academia with an agenda being lifted to prominence by using (mostly) digra sources and conferences to the blogosphere, youtube and news sites. There was nothing nefarious going on. It was just normal people who just tried to change the world to a better place using the knowledge they had from their social degrees and the contacts they had to make them count. They wrote papers discussing issues within gaming and the social structures around it, other people gathered and discussed how they could have an influence on how things are, other people read said sources and conversations and posted their thoughts on the internet, which in turn gave way to be posted by the gaming press as a way to go forward in all this shenanigan.
It doesn't mean however that it isn't an ideological agenda. It is. And that's not even
the ****ing problem.
The problem, as I see it, is its
total dominance on the gaming media, there are basically no other agendas in play, and whenever people disagree with this one, they either shut up about it (because of any ****storm they encounter) or they get labeled as douchebags. This dictatorial tone has been on stage for months now. It is partly the character of this new feminist wave, but it is also the typical elitistic condescending tone that has been the mark of the gaming media for quite a while now. Remember how they ghastly defamed the ReTake Mass Effect movement as well, who had nothing like today's twitter to defend itself from the shameless drivel that was constantly being thrown at them? Remember how pathetic that mudslinging was, given how that game had hilarious 10/10 reviews all over the place?
