Whedongate
This Josh Whedon thing is Gamergate with the sexes reversed.
Except that, in Gamergate, the bf/accuser was immediately declared the villain for having made public details about a woman's sex life. In this case, the accuser/wife is being treated as a hero for making public the alleged details of her husband's sex life.
As in the Thomas Pogge incident, the standards are reversed when the sexes are reversed.
The woman at the center of Gamergate is now a middlebrow / PC / SJ heroine, the subject of a recent hagiographical essay in NY Magazine (which, incidentally, contained all the standard inaccuracies about Gamergate, and then some.)
Quinn claimed to be harassed and threatened. Whedon, already the subject of PC internet dogpiling for minor SJ faux pas, will undoubtedly get the business again. Whether he will be threatened remains to be seen...though keep in mind: Quinn and her cohort lie about and exaggerate such things routinely. Being oppressed = SJ cred. I fear is the PC/SJ trump card. So there is a strong incentive to lie. Also: scummy though such harassers are, it's not at all clear that internet threats should count as real threats.
Things are complicated. Gamergate involved threats and harassment, but that's not what it was. It was, in part, an objection to the incestuous state of games journalism (which I don't care much about), and it was a revolt against the PC-ification of games journalism. Games journalism struck back by declaring Gamergate to be inherently and essentially misogynistic--and the SJ-controlled mainstream and not-quite-mainstream media backed them up. The PC left responds to disagreement by declaring those who disagree to be evil, hateful, prejudiced...some sort of -ist or -phobe. This is a rhetorically effective strategy, and a lesson to any who might have the temerity to speak up in the future.
Look, life is complicated, and these things are complicated, and you probably don't care about Josh Whedon or Gamergate. I really don't either...except insofar as they are microcosms of the overall current battle between PC / SJ and the forces of sanity.
Except that, in Gamergate, the bf/accuser was immediately declared the villain for having made public details about a woman's sex life. In this case, the accuser/wife is being treated as a hero for making public the alleged details of her husband's sex life.
As in the Thomas Pogge incident, the standards are reversed when the sexes are reversed.
The woman at the center of Gamergate is now a middlebrow / PC / SJ heroine, the subject of a recent hagiographical essay in NY Magazine (which, incidentally, contained all the standard inaccuracies about Gamergate, and then some.)
Quinn claimed to be harassed and threatened. Whedon, already the subject of PC internet dogpiling for minor SJ faux pas, will undoubtedly get the business again. Whether he will be threatened remains to be seen...though keep in mind: Quinn and her cohort lie about and exaggerate such things routinely. Being oppressed = SJ cred. I fear is the PC/SJ trump card. So there is a strong incentive to lie. Also: scummy though such harassers are, it's not at all clear that internet threats should count as real threats.
Things are complicated. Gamergate involved threats and harassment, but that's not what it was. It was, in part, an objection to the incestuous state of games journalism (which I don't care much about), and it was a revolt against the PC-ification of games journalism. Games journalism struck back by declaring Gamergate to be inherently and essentially misogynistic--and the SJ-controlled mainstream and not-quite-mainstream media backed them up. The PC left responds to disagreement by declaring those who disagree to be evil, hateful, prejudiced...some sort of -ist or -phobe. This is a rhetorically effective strategy, and a lesson to any who might have the temerity to speak up in the future.
Look, life is complicated, and these things are complicated, and you probably don't care about Josh Whedon or Gamergate. I really don't either...except insofar as they are microcosms of the overall current battle between PC / SJ and the forces of sanity.
posted by Winston Smith at
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