Even the Intel deal was basically a result of this lunacy, after Leigh Alexander was made a target.
"made a target" is subjective for me when I look at a few facts. Alexander wrote the article proclaiming the gamer identify dead and telling developer that gamers didn't have to be their audience. That article can be viewed as an attack on the gamers that make up GamerGate, but also clumped all gamers together.
Okay, so let's backtrack a tiny bit - it occurs to me now that people might not know why I brought Leigh Alexander up, given that this thread is supposed to be strictly about Sarkeesian.
First, here's the article you mentioned: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_to_be_your_audience_Gamers_are_over.php
Which, eh. Feel how you want about it, I don't care. It's an opinion piece, but it was featured quite prominently on Gamasutra's front page (whose traffic is pretty trivial, in the grand scheme of things). What happened as a result of this, though, was that the mob went after Gamasutra's advertisers, and Intel naively stepped in it before fully understanding what'd happened. They pulled their ads from the site, and then things kinda blew up. Fast forward a few months and they start a "diversity initiative" thing with Sarkeesian as a prominent (but not the only) part of it. Don't know if they're totally cause and effect, but Sarkeesian's involvement almost certainly was.
That's why I mentioned it. This isn't open season on talking about all the people GG is obsessed with. Which brings me to the rest of your post - you parroted the same creepy obsession with Wu and Harper again. Did you complain about Grayson or Kuchera? You know, the actual journalists? No. You're mad about a snarky comment on the Rev60 release notes, and a sarcastic post on Greenlight's forums. Harper tweeted mean things about the chan sites, and put some of your e-buddies on a block list. Why in hell do you care? Not to mention this statement: "Most of her proof has no actual proof it is from a member of GamerGate." Which is a notion you tear down in depth in your own blog post - GamerGate is anyone who wants to be GamerGate, good or bad. You said so yourself.
Do you have at least some concept that this is maybe why nobody on GDNet is particularly friendly to these viewpoints? Here's a hint: nobody here fucking cares about Wu, or Harper, or Quinn, or Rev 60, or SJWs, or twitter block lists, or even who was dating who. We don't want any part of the 4chan culture, let alone the distorted apocalyptic version that is 8chan. We don't care that Tim Schafer made a mean joke about NotYourShield. Nearly everything that KIA is angry about on a daily basis is a boring, pointless, circlejerking waste of time. Guarantee you, almost nobody here even knows who Harper is right now. So every time you complain that Brianna Wu was super mean to your online friends, the rest of us are just rolling our eyes and hoping you'll stop acting like a child. Nobody. cares.
It's time to face reality. You feel personally threatened at an emotional level by these women. You feel personally offended by their commentary on GG and 8ch. You almost reflexively repeat GG claims and memes, even when they're in conflict with the logical half of your mind. So BHXSpecter, here's the thing: you need to look inwards and seriously confront a chronic case of group identity that is doing considerable damage to your ability to look at these events in a rational way, and is morphing (or has morphed) into a distinctly creepy, unhealthy obsession with women who have no impact on or relationship to your life or even the broader concept of gamer culture. Until you can deal with the emotional tie ups bouncing around in your head, I don't know what you hope to accomplish here.
