Gamergaters kick ass once again: PC Gamer. Eat that, radfems.

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Intel promotes $ 300 million investment in response to gamergate manipulation



The most important news from CES 2015 involves hundreds of millions of dollars and a titan in the tech industry. It has its origins in a movement that scarred the latter half of 2014. It's not a gadget. It's not a service. It's not something that's for sale at all, actually.

The most important news at CES 2015 comes from Intel of all places, which announced its Diversity in Technology Initiative on Tuesday evening: an ambitious $300 million investment, intended to "increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the workplace and our industry" through partnerships, hiring and oversight. As Intel CEO Brian Krzanich puts it, "This isn't just good business; this is the right thing to do." For a company that's over 75 percent male, it's about time.

This week's announcement is a serious about-face from the mixed messages Intel was sending out a few months ago. To properly understand the situation Intel was involved in, you've got to take yourself back to the caustic environment of mid-to-late 2014. The contentious subject of "GamerGate" was in full swing. A loosely collected group of self-identified "gamers" unified under a Twitter hashtag -- "#GamerGate" -- which claimed to be fighting for ethics in game journalism. Despite that announced intention, the group was largely associated with threats, harassment and "doxxing" (the act of publishing the address and other identifying information of private individuals).

More specifically, the "GamerGate" movement targeted female game developers and prominent media critic Anita Sarkeesian. It was, and is, a movement co-opted by hangers-on who have no interest in gaming, no history in the game industry; people like Christina Hoff Sommers and Milo Yiannopoulos, which Gawker aptly describes as, "The D-List Right-Wingers Who've Turned Gamergate Into Their Loser Army."

Following the publication of an essay on game industry trade site Gamasutra titled, "'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over." by Editor-at-Large Leigh Alexander, the GamerGate "movement" focused its ire on advertisers. Members of the movement created form letters and collected email addresses of prominent advertisers tied to publications deemed "anti-GamerGate." Despite the piece on Gamasutra being largely based around inclusion, some members of the GamerGate movement took it as a slight about how they self-identify (as "gamers"). As Intel was (at the time) an advertiser on Gamasutra, the chipmaker was inundated with emails from potential customers (GamerGaters) requesting Intel stop advertising on Gamasutra. In an unfortunate, knee-jerk response, Intel capitulated and pulled ads from the site. At the time, the company issued this statement:

"Intel has pulled its advertising from website Gamasutra. We take feedback from our customers very seriously especially as it relates to contextually relevant content and placements."

That was on October 1st, 2014. By October 3rd, Intel realized it was an unwitting player in a much bigger issue. The company released the following statement, which you'll notice is more detailed, but still misses the point:

"We take feedback from customers seriously. For the time being, Intel has decided not to continue with our current ad campaign on the gaming site Gamasutra. However, we recognize that our action inadvertently created a perception that we are somehow taking sides in an increasingly bitter debate in the gaming community. That was not our intent, and that is not the case. When it comes to our support of equality and women, we want to be very clear: Intel believes men and women should be treated the same. And, diversity is an integral part of our corporate strategy and vision with commitments to improve the diversity of our workforce. And while we respect the right of individuals to have their personal beliefs and values, Intel does not support any organization or movement that discriminates against women. We apologize and we are deeply sorry if we offended anyone."

It took another month before Intel's ads were back on Gamasutra, and the company shrank back into the periphery of the GamerGate controversy.

Fast-forward two months and Intel's got an hour-long press conference at CES 2015. GamerGate has largely fizzled, and Intel's managed to escape relatively unscathed from its PR nightmare. That's all to say it's a major turn for Intel to not only push itself back into the spotlight here, but also to intentionally stand on the right side of history and put its money where its ideals (supposedly) are. And this isn't just a financial investment with oversight, but a cultural shift at Intel overall. The company's pledging "full representation at all levels of our workforce by 2020." That extends to management as well, whose pay will be tied to the company's progress. Think that sounds like small potatoes? Intel employs over 100,000 people. The concept of what the company's doing here expands enormously when scaled up to an organization of Intel's size.

Intel's diversity panel at CES 2015

Even better, Krzanich specifically cited Intel's mistakes over the past few months as a catalyst for this week's announcement. "A confluence of industry events has brought this issue to the center stage: From the threats and harassment that has characterized the debate in the gaming world, to the publication of hiring data and diversity statistics in the tech industry. This is a highly relevant issue and one that we all need to address," he said onstage.

Make no mistake: The $300 million investment and change in hiring policy is a genuinely positive result of the last six months of awful garbage. It's also, of course, a response to the actual data that shows how starkly non-diverse the tech industry is. How about Google's data to start? Remember, this is the "Don't be evil" company. "About 91 percent of Googlers are either Asian or white, and 70 percent are men," we wrote in May 2014, citing a Google internal study. Google has just over 55,000 employees.

The situation at other tech giants isn't much better. eBay leads the diversity charge with a far higher percentage of female workers (42 percent), while biggies like Twitter are just as bad as Google (with about 30 percent female employees). And Intel, who conspicuously didn't note its diversity numbers while announcing its diversity initiative? The Atlantic reported back in August that around 24 percent of Intel employees are women.

As that piece points out, publishing diversity statistics (or lack thereof) doesn't make much of a difference in actually increasing diversification of employees. So, what does? Action! That's why Intel's move is such a big deal -- the biggest news at CES 2015, lest you forgot -- and why I've been evangelizing the move since Tuesday night. At least something good came out of the whole GamerGate mess.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

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Intel promotes $ 300 million investment in response to gamergate manipulation

"increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the workplace and our industry"
Well now that means money flowing into the hands of female developers

many of whom are pro-Gamergate (apparently more than you or the media realize).
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GamerGate has largely fizzled

Was that quote before or after PC Gamer got spanked by this 'fizzled' movement?

BTW how many times now has the media said Gamergate is dead? 10,000?

If anything, the people WITHIN Gamergate have driven a long knife into the back of the idea that gaming is a male dominated culture - because of all the WOMEN who have joined the ranks.

You cowards even tried to accuse them of being sockpuppets, but that blew up in your face.
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Then you got all scared and resorted to a mega blocklist and that blew up in your faces, too, while also giving MORE media exposure to Gamergate women.

That was about November, which should place it around the, ummmm, 3800th time that the media declared Gamergate to be dead...

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

So "Gamers are dead" didn't mean GAMERS ARE DEAD?

REALLY?

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#GamerGate and toxic masculinity — why video games face impending disaster

One big fat lie followed up by one big fat erroneous prediction.
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Toxic masculinity.

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Moar toxic masculinity.

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My god look at all that toxic masculinity.

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Oh wait you feminists say these are all sockpuppets. Sillyme. Anyone who doesn't fit your toxic masculinity propaganda has got to be sockpuppets.

Meanwhile here's more anti-Gamergate hilarity.
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Ooh now this one had to have left a little burn...
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so what do those pictures of girls from the interet have to do with PC Gamer's descion

and what exactly does PC Gamer's decision have to with "radfems"..seeing as their decision appears to be not even remotely connected with the harrasment these " radfems" are concerned with?

and yes, gamers are gead

you seem to think it means literal death

gaming has transformed from console and PC gaming to a wide range of platforms and styles.. the "gaming" that gamergate is fighting so hard to defend no longer conventionally exists.. the gaming world doesnt belong to them anymore

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

so what do those pictures of girls from the interet have to do with PC Gamer's descion

and what exactly does PC Gamer's decision have to with "radfems"..seeing as their decision appears to be not even remotely connected with the harrasment these " radfems" are concerned with?

and yes, gamers are gead

you seem to think it means literal death

gaming has transformed from console and PC gaming to a wide range of platforms and styles.. the "gaming" that gamergate is fighting so hard to defend no longer conventionally exists.. the gaming world doesnt belong to them anymore

Gamergate isn't even defending that. The gamer culture as you idiot hysterical feminists defined it, never existed.

There's ALWAYS been women in gaming. It's never been a "girls not allowed" culture. The TITS OR GTFO crowd was never dominant.

Shit, woman, strong women galore were a staple of Elder Scrolls and similar games and they've always been insanely popular... with female modders galore.

Gamers are dead? Gamers as you idiots know them never even existed.

 

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Gamergate isn't even defending that. The gamer culture as you idiot hysterical feminists defined it, never existed.

There's ALWAYS been women in gaming. It's never been a "girls not allowed" culture. The TITS OR GTFO crowd was never dominant.

Shit, woman, strong women galore were a staple of Elder Scrolls and similar games and they've always been insanely popular... with female modders galore.

Gamers are dead? Gamers as you idiots know them never even existed.

if gamer culture never existed why can I literally be able to google hundreds of gamergaters that say otherwise?

you are right, the gamer culture has never been girls not allowed.. the gamergate culture on the other hand has a large voice of them that say they just dont want women to disagree with them, make comments or have a role in what's developed

yes, women are a staple in many games as strong choices.. they are also a staple of tits and ass in many more in many many many more


you say Elder Scrolls.. I say Duke Nukem.. you say Fallout , I say the Dead and Alive series

criticizing the depiction of the women in those games is not trying to define something.. this is something that gamergate and you dont seem to get

 

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if gamer culture never existed why can I literally be able to google hundreds of gamergaters that say otherwise?

you are right, the gamer culture has never been girls not allowed.. the gamergate culture on the other hand has a large voice of them that say they just dont want women to disagree with them, make comments or have a role in what's developed

And THIS IS WHY I posted the pictures of those women. Their faces are living proof that you're full of shit.

The voice that says women shouldn't disagree is not large. It's hilariously small. And they are TOTALLY powerless. But like Conservatism's radical Islam bugaboo, they're great fuel for overexaggeration and radical feminist fearmongering.

How Conservative of you.

yes, women are a staple in many games as strong choices.. they are also a staple of tits and ass in many more in many many many more


you say Elder Scrolls.. I say Duke Nukem.. you say Fallout , I say the Dead and Alive series

criticizing the depiction of the women in those games is not trying to define something.. this is something that gamergate and you dont seem to get

So you're basically saying exterminate Dead And Alive, Duke Nukem, etc. and that women don't play those games. And that the fact that while they show tits in games they also kill bazillions of MALES (and not females) in games, you handwave that away with some bullshit excuse.

Tits = deh wimmenz are oppressed
Bare chested men = bullshit "male power fantasy" pseudoscience
Dead bloody mauled male bodies by the truckload = additional truckload of yoga contortion justifications

And that's why Anita Sarkeesian is so full of crap.
That's why feminism is full of crap.

Feminism = wimmenz are oppressed, anything bad that happens to men is because of men and never because of women, wimmenz never do anything wrong, except when OMFG WTF wimmenz against feminism dem wimmenz r idiotzzzzzz

And you wonder why you can't spit in ANY direction in a gamergate community without hitting a woman?

 

[badbabysitter]

And THIS IS WHY I posted the pictures of those women. Their faces are living proof that you're full of shit.

showing that some women are pro-gamer gate does not discount the hundreds of gamers that are bitching about the end of gamer culture.... having an opinion doesnt discount the existence of other opinions

The voice that says women shouldn't disagree is not large. It's hilariously small.

Like the tea party, when an ugly minority promotes it's agendaloudly, it becomes about perception. Gamergate is permanently connected to that minority no matter what goodwill it tries to do

And they are TOTALLY powerless.

So hacking sites, setting up disinformation campaigns to corporations, bomb threats, death threats, rape threats, doxxing, SWATting, threats to family... all of these things are completely without power?

But like Conservatism's radical Islam bugaboo, they're great fuel for overexaggeration and radical feminist fearmongering.

read above...if you decide to link yourself to a group which is synonymous with this sort of behaviour what do you expect?

also unlike Islam.. video games are not a religon. One can believe in God and not consider oneself a Muslim.

On the other hand one can want journalism ethics in the gaming industry and not to be in any way connected to Gamergate

But if you do link the two, you have to be aware that gamergate is directly linked to a complete lack of ethics.

How Conservative of you.

read that in the daily caller too?

or champions of gamergate like Breitbart.com, the Return of Kings, anti-videogame crusader ( and now gamergate darling) jack Thompson, or right wing think tanks ala Christina Hoff Summers

So you're basically saying exterminate Dead And Alive, Duke Nukem, etc. and that women don't play those games. And that the fact that while they show tits in games they also kill bazillions of MALES (and not females) in games, you handwave that away with some bullshit excuse.

No, I'm saying nothing of the sort...I'm saying the women depicted in those games fit tropes, conveniet roles and stereotypes and thats what solely alone defines them.

Video games do kill gazillions of men, but the men are put into those games as adversaries.. not eye candy, objects and victims as women are

Commenting on thier roles in the game is not the same as wanting to ban the games... this kind of leap of logic always boggles the mind.

I love GTA, but the depiction of women in that game is laughable.. they are strippers, hookers, victims , crazy, or done men wrong. While the male protagonists a re certainly flawed... they are not depicted as background noise like the women are

My making that comment does not mean I want to ban the game... it's called criticism

and if guys playing games can't handle criticims of something that doesnt affect them... there's the problem

Tits = deh wimmenz are oppressed
Bare chested men = bullshit "male power fantasy" pseudoscience
Dead bloody mauled male bodies by the truckload = additional truckload of yoga contortion justifications

how exactly is critique of the role of women in games the same as shouting about oppression... it boggles comprehension

And that's why Anita Sarkeesian is so full of crap.

why? because she comments on the roles of women in games ..and you dont like her opinion.. so she has to be wrong

That's why feminism is full of crap.

Because having an idea that differs from you is wrong

Feminism = wimmenz are oppressed, anything bad that happens to men is because of men and never because of women, wimmenz never do anything wrong, except when OMFG WTF wimmenz against feminism dem wimmenz r idiotzzzzzz

whatever that verbal diarhea was..it had literally had nothing to do with women in games

And you wonder why you can't spit in ANY direction in a gamergate community without hitting a woman?

or you cant wander too far in the gamergate without running into someone who is going to blame feminism for the evils of having a different opinion on something