It's always been a pet peeve of mine when examples of outright violent opposition to women in games are cited as "the origins of GG." Not at
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the only real tie into the horrible issues videogame land has with women are that the baseline levels of raw unreasoning hate were so high
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passing their attacks off as a natural outgrowth of that made for a REALLY convincing cover story, and as the months rolled by, the dudes so
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incensed by women existing in the world of games who were also miserable failures in the field saw GG as a way to reestablish themselves.
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But again I'm only a pedant about this because I have some very detailed notes I'd like to bring into a courtroom someday. Exposing the vile
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underbelly of gaming like this is damn important in its own right, and is decades overdue.
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Seriously, this was tech culture before OMM arrived on the scene. The audience was slready there for them to rise in popularity.
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