Comment by doubleunplussed
6 years ago
Women gamers compared to white male psychiatrist bloggers who occasionally criticise feminism? Yes.
There's no mystery here. Scott belongs to a class of people for whom sympathy is not culturally trendy at the moment.
Do the people who are downvoting this comment believe that sympathy for Scott's class of people IS trendy at the moment? What's the objection to the comment.
Contrary to popular belief, HN's demographic is not immune to knee-jerk hostility triggered by the notion of a concept merely existing, wherever one might come down when discussing it.
I feel I should provide an example:
White fragility.
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Also there’s a minority who treat the downvote button as a disagree button.
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> Already, the response has been a far cry from Gamergate in 2014, when women faced threats of death and sexual assault for critiquing the industry’s male-dominated, sexist culture.
Also women (and men) faced threats of sexual assault and violence for critiquing the media. But NYT very deliberately choses to ignore one set of threats and doxxing.
Gotta get them clicks, mang. Pushing the Cause Célèbre at the time is what does that.