Thursday, October 30, 2014
Gamergate
The other day in class we were talking about essay topics and gamergate was mentioned. So I thought to myself what in the world is that. So I researched for a while and now I am going to share my knowledge a bit to shed light on the name. While gamergate sounds like some awe-inspiring thing that all gamers strive to reach and pass through, it is really kind of a horrific thing. Gamergate is a hashtag term that people have been using to go for or go against a movement gamers have started to verbally abuse and threaten female gamers and game producers because apparently 'women do not belong on them'. It started when an angry ex boy friend wrote a nasty blog about a young female game designer. Gamers became mad and started to threaten her as well as tell her to kill herself. It has spread to all female gamers who will reveal themselves and then have their lives hacked and public information put up for all to see and abuse. It is a terrible sexist scandal that should come to a halt soon, but probably won't. So what does everyone think about gamergate now? This can all aply to Nietzsche because women have always been seen as the weaker sex so they were originally 'bad' but when morals came around their weakness was seen as strength. Well now the gamers are treating women badly and society is looking down on them for it because of our morals.
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Gamergate has been truly horrifying thing to see unfold. I don't think it's right when people dismiss what is happening just because "oh, well that's the internet." There are actual people behind those monitors. The rape threats aren't writing themselves. And even if they're empty threats, what kind of a person writes things like that?
ReplyDeleteI can only hope that this awful event opens up people's eyes about how we've not yet reached gender equality. Feminist is still incredibly needed, and any man that feels threatened by that really needs to sit down and reevaluate his life. I don't know how Nietzche would feel about all of this. Are these men justified in their nasty words, because they're "stronger"? Can women be an ubermensch?
I don't see how being dominant in video games is a strength. Gamer-gate is a bad think because those people are sick; mentally sick. Therefore they are the weak ones because the strength that matters ins the 21st century is intelligence. The good thing about inequality is that it motivates people for the want to become equal.
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