They’re so gamer

This is amusing. McRapey and the SF pinkshirts belatedly discover #GamerGate:

    Jesus. Brianna Wu is someone I consider a friend. Fuck everyone who thinks GamerGate is anything other than haters shitting on women.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    If you think threatening women is a legitimate tactic for anything, feel free to stop reading my work. I don’t need you or your money.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    Astounding the number of dudes who think a woman game developer being harassed has nothing to do with a movement founded to harass women.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    And yes, GamerGate was founded to harass women. We’ve all seen the IRC logs. Part of the plan: recruit others to be their useful idiots.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    And there sure have been a lot of useful idiots letting offering up their services to those who want to harass women! Well done, you.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    Face it, dudes: “GamerGate” is a toxic thing. You can’t say you support WITHOUT explicitly standing with those who hate and harass women.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    Excellent post about GamerGate. “If you don’t step away… then you *are* part of a hate movement.” http://t.co/IOB0nSiFJE
    — N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) October 11, 2014

    So stop standing with people who WANT you to be their useful idiots while they threaten women. You can’t pretend you don’t know anymore.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    You know. We know you know. EVERYONE knows you know. No one else buys into your denial. Just stop. AND repudiate. Stop being used. Simple.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

    And if you refuse to stop being a useful idiot for those who harass and hate women, we’ll know that too. And remember.
    — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 11, 2014

What should be remembered is this string of tweets the next time John Scalzi tries to pretend he’s a hardcore game nerd. After all, it only took him nearly two months to discover what the entire gaming community had been discussing. As for Ms Wu, she’s not even original enough to come up with a new form of crying wolf. Anita Sarkeesian already played the “ooh, I’m so scared I had to flee my home” card back in August.

At this rate, we can probably pencil in McRapey waxing indignant about Jennifer Lawrence sometime around Thanksgiving. And as often the case, he clearly has absolutely no idea that popular opinion is absolutely not on his side here.

It should also be amusing to see him start trying to walk back this claim – “GamerGate was founded to harass women” – when he discovers that the term was coined by one of the very Hollywood figures he is now trying to suck up to.

After bravely “fleeing from her home”, Spacekatgal pulls a post-flight Brave Sir Robin:

Announcement: I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I am going to keep making games. And I will keep speaking up for women in gamedev.

That’s cool. The rest of us will continue not playing them and not listening to her. Exactly like we’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

UPDATE: McRapey saying that he is “currently ACTUALLY making a video game” is like a Best Boy saying that he is starring in a movie.