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In reply to the discussion: If you seriously care about gaming, you better pay attention to #Gamergate and its damage. [View all]Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)24. No.
I never said that.
I know there are many decent gamers. There are many more good people in the communities you mentioned among others.
However, the general public has little idea about the gaming community. The look they are getting isn't pretty by any stretch. Unfortunately, people lump people together if there is nothing that seems to separate them into groups. That's why you hear others point out differences in Muslims and others. They are trying to break through the noise.
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If you seriously care about gaming, you better pay attention to #Gamergate and its damage. [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Oct 2014
OP
it may seem that you can't do much, but in my opinion, doing something in your own life
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#7
Still graphic violence though. AND > “Grand Theft Auto V” Is Now A First Person Shooter*
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#14
My little great grandson plays Mindcraft and plays it with his sister. And I think it is a good game
jwirr
Oct 2014
#42
Yes, I know. The boys in our family are all gamers and if they were misogynists I would be the one
jwirr
Oct 2014
#70
"...but now the whole lot of them are tarred with the poison from those groups."
Android3.14
Oct 2014
#6
see, this is the thing....you'd sound a lot more sincere if you did one thing first....
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#8
you seem to believe that mentioning a serious prroblem--which is acknowledged asa global epidemic --
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#49
ok, there's a basic miscommunication going on here.....right now, I just
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2014
#66
When and how did "gamers" come to mean first person shooters & graphic violence?
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#9
you just strengthened my analogy to how media refers to Fundies when Christianity comes up...
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#19
Why is it the obligation of a grandma who plays Farmville to stop the assholes?
AngryAmish
Oct 2014
#18
what defines a gamer in the community? i get where you're coming from; these "people" are scumbags.
dionysus
Oct 2014
#58
In other words, we should consider the media the arbitrar of who constitutes 'gamers'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2014
#31
You're right, it's made-up bullshit. An excuse to attack women in gaming. n/t
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#57
Second that. If people are making death threats or terroristic threats, that's a crime.
Comrade Grumpy
Oct 2014
#34
If the ones driving people from their homes are arrested and charged with making terroristic threats
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#59