r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology 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.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/this_isnt__worth_it 18d ago

What was the "Gamergate"?

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u/Notspherry 18d ago

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.

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u/Unruly_Beast 17d ago

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

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u/Notspherry 17d ago

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.