11-03-2014, 01:30 AM
Alt - because the game dev displays that she is the winner of the competition. Also, they covered her being "harassed" for a while before this and actually spun a story where criticizing her actions became harassment. If it was no one, then nothing would of happened. Zoe was someone they HAD wrote about extensively, and had done things that other people got coverage for (alleged rape) but they skipped over her story, and spun lies about it to keep down the controversy and said it was for "privacy" which is hypocritical to other stories they ran in the past. It was EXTREMELY hypocritical the way news sites covered (or rather, didn't) this story and the censorship that went on when people talked about it. THAT is why gamergate started, censorship of people talking about Zoe and the hypocritical way news sites covered the story. Also, where do you see ANY misogynists that can be directly related to gamergate, besides trolls? On the same note, anti-gamergate is mainly non-misandrists with a tumblr mindset.
On boycotting media - that is what gamergate is doing. They are contacting advertisers to pull ads on these sites. Remember how much xray wanted to get through gamergate is not at all about zoe? That is gamergate not giving attention to Zoe. Media is VERY important to our day-to-day lives. It is how we get the goings on in the world, like EA being hacked and 40,000 accounts possibly getting stolen (A story that was not posted because of the bad ethics in the video game news industry).
I also do not agree with you that feminists == good. If these were people that actually tried to fix things that were unjust to women in society or try to help women in the developing world, I'd be supporting them. But the feminists in the gamergate argument are ones with a tumblr mindset, which are mostly privileged females making gendered issues out of non-gendered issues and can't cope with the fact that for most of video game history the main demographic were males, and so video games today are mostly aimed at males. Just because you're a feminist doesn't make you good. I agree on some things they say, but for the most part these "feminists" (put in quotes because they really don't do anything to stop unjust treatment of women on the basis of gender) are control freaks that don't know how the media works.
On boycotting media - that is what gamergate is doing. They are contacting advertisers to pull ads on these sites. Remember how much xray wanted to get through gamergate is not at all about zoe? That is gamergate not giving attention to Zoe. Media is VERY important to our day-to-day lives. It is how we get the goings on in the world, like EA being hacked and 40,000 accounts possibly getting stolen (A story that was not posted because of the bad ethics in the video game news industry).
I also do not agree with you that feminists == good. If these were people that actually tried to fix things that were unjust to women in society or try to help women in the developing world, I'd be supporting them. But the feminists in the gamergate argument are ones with a tumblr mindset, which are mostly privileged females making gendered issues out of non-gendered issues and can't cope with the fact that for most of video game history the main demographic were males, and so video games today are mostly aimed at males. Just because you're a feminist doesn't make you good. I agree on some things they say, but for the most part these "feminists" (put in quotes because they really don't do anything to stop unjust treatment of women on the basis of gender) are control freaks that don't know how the media works.