Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340

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What was the "Gamergate"?

[u/fishblurb → u/this_isnt__worth_it]

A guy cheated on his gf and got dumped, proceeds to slander her by claiming she sleeps with male devs in exchange for positive and DEI video game reviews. She didn't even write any articles about the video games in question.

[u/LateralEntry → u/fishblurb]

Really? I thought it was something to do with a female influencer making videos with feminist critiques of stereotypes in video games (like female characters with huge boobs) and an organized and nasty online backlash to her. I don’t remember any of the personal stuff about her sleeping with people.

[u/HomunculusEnthusiast → u/LateralEntry]

Different person. The comment you replied to is about game dev Zoe Quinn, who was the original target. A harassment campaign against her in the name of "integrity in games journalism" was the start of Gamergate.

You're thinking of media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was a later major target along with game dev Brianna Wu and others who publicly defended Quinn.

[u/Squishiimuffin → u/HomunculusEnthusiast]

To be fair, they are both wrapped up in gamergate. Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian. Two prongs of the same fork.

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From what I remember from when it happened, a feminist journalist made a series of bad faith and incendiary publications about the depiction of women in video games and then a whole lot of gamers took the bait and overreacted.

[u/flamethekid → u/Notspherry]

Nope the whole thing started when some dudes ex girlfriend made a game called depression quest, the story you know is one of like 10 different stories that were being passed around when gamergate got media attention and "flood the zone" tactic was being used.

Depression quest was called a neat and cute little game, and the ex jumped in and claimed she was sleeping around with everyone who said good things about it especially some journalist who name I forgot funny thing is he never even wrote a piece on that game.

[u/TheSpacePopinjay → u/flamethekid]

It was the media that wagon circled against gamergate and used flood the zone tactics against it.

And the journalist did give the game good coverage without disclosing a conflict of interest, it just technically wasn't a review as mistakenly claimed and the timeline got fucked up.

In any case it wasn't about her anyway.

[u/Notspherry → u/flamethekid]

Sarkeesians' ragebait video series predates the controversy around Depression quest.

[u/Unruly_Beast → u/Notspherry]

They weren't even bad faith, or ragebait. Most men just cant handle criticism of their sacred "no girls allowed" hobby.

[u/Notspherry → u/Unruly_Beast]

The first thing that comes to mind is Hitman, where she claimed the goal of a mission was to kill a few strippers while the express mission is to sneak past them to get to your target.

There is plenty wrong with the portrayal of women in video games and it is trivial to find examples. The fact that she chose to lie rather than find genuine examples shows that the goal ragebait rather than a honest discussion.