Gamegate has been a bit of an eye-opener for me...

[ReverendDeuce]

I realize this is a tempest in a teapot compared to significantly larger issues facing the world, but the recent "gamergate" fiasco has really opened my eyes in a way that few things have.

The below appearance of writer and activist Suey Park on HuffPo Live with Josh Zepps is astounding! Even though it starts off as a discussion about racism used in satirical context, it quickly changes tone in a way that is surprising and left me shaking my head... I realize it's an older clip (March 2014), but dang!

Thoughts?

[Prophet 451]

1. GamerGate has perpexed me

I've been gaming on the internet for years and, apart from having to occasionally shout at some idiot who made rape jokes on TeamSpeak, I had no idea that so many of the people I was gaming with were so misogynist.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Probably in the same way ...

you (presumably a male; but, even if not a male, a person that speaks out against rape jokes) probably don't hear misogynistic comments in real life.

People tend to self-modulate when they know that someone "like them" doesn't share/put up with their B.S.

[Warpy]

3. It's like any bigotry

Bigots tend to associate with each other as much as possible so they can convince themselves that bigotry is only common sense, "you know how they all are."

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. I would say ...

bigots tend to just assume that EVERYONE feels the same way they do ... because no one/few call them out.

[Prophet 451]

5. I am a guy, yes

What you suggest would explain some of it. I just, I never imagined that there was this rich vein of misogyny in gamers. I figured, yeah, some of us were a bit quirky or a little socially awkward but in a harmless way, not in a stalking-Felicia-Day way.