Cathy Young on GamerGate and Misandry

If you’re like many people, you’ve been doing
your best to know as little as possible about GamerGate, the
hashtag movement that is either—depending on who you ask—a consumer
revolt against corruption in the videogame media or a harassment
campaign targeting women in the videogame world. Who wants to get
embroiled in a two-month-long Internet drama over videogames? But
this story is not nearly as frivolous as might seem. One reason it
won’t die is that it’s a battlefield in a larger culture war over
issues ranging from gender politics to media bias to social
libertarianism versus left-wing moralism.

Cathy Young writes that only a few journalists in the national
media, such as Slate.com’s David Auerbach, have acknowledged that
serious harassment, including threats and “doxxing”—posting a
person’s private information online—have happened on both sides of
GamerGate.

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