I know why right-wingers want to hurt diverse groups of creative people

Doubt.

it’s an Anita Sarkeesian problem, (referring to the pop-feminist video game critic, a major target of GamerGate)

Correction: GamerGate was a target of Anita Sarkeesian.

Smith, however, was not a fascist (he was one of the first people taken to county lockup by the LAPD during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

Not a fascist? Doubt.

“Opportunity costs” is what we call them in my field.

That's what they call them in every field. You'd know that if you hadn't wasted your education learning to feminism.

All I can say after finishing the ... article, if you can call it that, is, "bitch, are you new to the internet? Are you new to people in general? How sheltered and pampered do you have to be to have been surprised by any of this?" But overeducated feminist bigots gonna overeducated feminist bigot, which is why I'm not surprised by her reaction.

Hopefully it prompts some introspection in her, but again: Doubt. Women are wonderful, don't ya know.

edit: as I'm reading

If normal people only knew what it's like to live in real life with social media leftists, we would never have gotten to this point. I knew a dyed-in-the-wool lib voter who had her best friend try to knock her up because she was reaching the end of childbirthing age and scared of dying alone. That trail ended in tears obviously. And if their lives aren't messed up, then then you get them on the wrong topic and it's like being assaulted by a verbal cheese grater. There's a level of selfishness lurking under their empathetic exterior that you hopefully never run into.

Fascinating article. I’m still reading, but the thing that’s jumping out at me is that the vast majority of the “harassers” the author is talking about are two or more of: (a) women (b) “queer” (c) lesbian (d) trans.

When are we going to come to terms with the reality that females make social spaces toxic.

Thou doth protest too much: the article.

An incredibly sheltered person finds: other human beings.

Discovers that they can do some playful, and sometimes hurtful banter to take you out of the game and make you lose concentration in order to gain the advantage.

Also discovers other people might not think the exact same way as they do and doesn't like that one bit.

That's the real scary part, I think. There are people on this earth in the year of our megazord 2024 that are so deep into an indoctrination cult that they'll just think to themselves "If someone doesn't walk like me, talk like me, look like me, think like me and act like me, well then, they're evil right winger nazi turbo hitlers, and it's my job to destroy them, because I am a good person." ... and don't see a god damn thing wrong with that.

I like how actual DnD players are like aliens for her to research. Somehow she's less human than DnD players.

Funny that after all that, you can tell she still thinks that white males are the problem. Those damned white males in the 80s, playing their their D&D, with all of the power and prestige that brings.

I highly doubt this woman has any understanding of what she’s writing or studying and I chalk that up to womens lib studies.

It’s people like her that have fractured the very nature of socio-norms, applauded the “destruction of the patriarchy”, but then belches out the proper platitudes and apologies you’d find in religious writing, 99.9% of womens rape claims are 100% accurate but this one time a woman lied, uh-huh… don’t you see any correlations of this case to the Kavanaugh hearings? You can hear her say Nazis every time she writes incels too.

That said - the facts here are interesting but not surprising from somebody that’s actually studied western civilization and why we have the morals we do. I’m sure she’s not aware of it but there was an ancient teacher circa 0 AD who preached brotherly love but was set upon by a mob who demanded his crucifixion because he upset peoples feelings.

But I doubt the author has ever heard of this guy either.

Note also Zac’s zealotry about facts and truth. That’s not because he’s noble and righteous - I’d wager it’s the only way he can keep his sanity with polyamorous relationships with trannies, porn stars and BPD punk rock wives. In the end the truth didn’t save him. The trannies turned on him - the porn stars didn’t and I think that’s telling about supporting ideologies that don’t care about truth.

(TL;DR - the snowflakes are still snowflaking) (Observation - TDS/MeToo is all an outgrowth of this. “I don’t care - this makes me feel bad so I can do whatever I want to stop it.”)

everything was fine until they came along, shit on the table, and demanded to be celebrated for it.

I am drunk on seven different kinds of whiskey, and it is still not enough to handle the sheer amount of bullshit in this article.

Well, no. I can't say it's all bullshit. It's clearly a masks-off, interesting look behind the curtain to find that a bunch of mentally diseased, broken people are... a bunch of mentally diseased, broken people.

However, the part about the article that irks me the most is the long, long diatribe at the start that tries to establish and shield and bonafides to protect them from the self-same firing squad she(he?) goes in-depth in throughout the entire article. And yet, despite attempts to fend off the fucking leopard, her(his?) attempt to fend off off the lynch mods clearly weren't enough because they had to delete the article.

Stuff like;

For the purposes of this article, the category “credentials” also unfortunately needs to include the fact that I am a queer woman and a multiple-assault survivor.

Every time. Every fucking time. That stonetoss comic comes to mind, and it makes me wonder if the old rule of 'feminists think all men are rapist scum because they interact exclusive with leftist men' isn't spot fucking on.

But cancer and a few other things that have happened to me

Doubt.

I am a psychotherapist and social research scientist who has worked in maximum security prisons with violent offenders and with at-risk youth, I have interviewed, studied, and interacted with a very wide variety of multiple-felons close-up for years, and right now I am studying Dungeons and Dragons drama and what studying it tells me about people frightens me more than any of that work ever has.

I interact with high-testosterone men so I can get tingles in a safe environment and so I pretend this somehow gives me bonafides and authority.

Well, after several months studying incel culture online I decided I needed a break to do something less depressing, something with lower stakes — or at least a lower chance of being stalked and murdered in my bed.

Incels typically aren't niggers, so I doubt you had much to fear about.

That community became increasingly diverse and interconnected, brought in many more people who were not white straight men, and produced many other games which take cues from the D&D model but are all different in a thousand ways.

Clear a community made and for straight white men allowing others to intrude was a massive fucking mistake, but here we are.

I know why right-wingers want to hurt diverse groups of creative people,

Keep your sexual fantasies out of your scientific articles, thanks.

...and so on.

And so forth.

The rest in the article comes across like some sort of unholy combination between schioprenic rambling and drunk weaving between artillery strikes, never once getting hit with the truth or wanting to commit to something that would dare to really, truly hurt the tribe she belongs to.

There's a point when I wonder if these people really understand what it is that they're putting to paper. You don't really get the NPC meme until you see something like this - it's like watching some entity constantly ram thier face into something approaching self-awareness only to stumble mindlessly away and mumble some kind of brain-dead pablum that tries to conform to thier worldview and mindset. Over, and over, and over...

Fuck this. It's time to sleep.

Never been a fan of table top caming. Putting that shit on Twitch and Youtube is how the normies got in, and ruined a lot of it.

Wait, you just misspelled gaming. Well, I was going to go on a big long rant about tabletop cams, but I guess it'll be another time.