Aneris wrote:I talked to an Anti-GamerGater recently – in person – that was interesting. My knowledge of #GamerGate is limited to the incidents that rise above the noise and of course the overall SJW situation. I was more interested in an overall perspective since I don't know the details myself.
I was surprised to hear that she found Anita Sarkeesians work “well researched” due to the many games taken into account. Surprised, because she's a researcher herself. She was unperturbed by my doubts about the sample selection, introduction of confirmation bias and lack of context. Things I deemed obvious for an academic.
She only knew about the harassment of St. Aneeda, a bomb threat, and believed firmly that #GamerGaters do this. She was also annoyed by one bloke who apparently ineptly criticized some academical paper regarding video games, and she somehow tied this to GamerGate, too. She then, perhaps as a come back, told me that this isn't the way how academia works: when you have critique, you don't delete some paper, you write a better paper against it.
We got there because of the research we discussed earlier, and it was a friendly chat, but I found it a times akward and uncomfortable and with that knowledge would steer away from this topic the next time. It's probably more relaxed to discuss blasphemy laws with an ISIS combatant.
Yesterday I was chatting to someone about a crazy lady I know who has had to move out of town because the 'negative energy levels' in the town are burning her skin, especially the young people with their mobile phones that have lasers in them that they fire at her in the supermarket (she's been hit twice). She likes me because I have a lot of positive energy, apparently.
So the woman I was telling obviously shook her head about the laser thing, but then told me how she takes a risk on her mobile phone, (because she has to be on call) but she wonders about the long term effect it will have on her health. Fortunately, she understands crystals and knows which to apply to treat the effect of the microwaves.
I started to explain about ionising radiation, but it just made us both uncomfortable, so I changed the subject.
So, 'Strategic Butt Covers' obviously, well researched, even if, to the uninfected, it seems like childish drivel.
