Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by patrickmay on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:44PM (#17306766)

That's the narrative that one side of the controversy pushed (and some are still pushing). It's a lot more complicated than that, with plenty of bad actors claiming to be on the side of the angels and a lot of 4chan trolls stirring the pot.

If you want more information than you'll really be able to read, check out the FAQs on Reddit's r/KotakuInAction. Before buying into the above mentioned narrative, you might want to learn more about how the GameJournoPros mailing list was involved and which side received credible bomb threats. Christina Hoff Sommers has some good YouTube videos about it (i.e. https://youtu.be/5RVlCvBd21w).

This is a major issue with some online "progressives" who are incapable of any nuance about it. Be warned if you want to have a rational conversation.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by pjc50 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:53PM (#17306845)

> 4chan trolls

> r/KotakuInAction

These are basically the same people under different identities. There was also a "secret" irc channel coordinating the harassment.

> credible bomb threats

Did the police ever untangle any of this? I can see http://uk.businessinsider.com/gamergate-fbi-file-2017-2 and http://uk.businessinsider.com/ethan-ralph-gamergate-leader-a...

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by patrickmay on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:02PM (#17306916)

Check out this one: https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/16/9161311/bomb-threat-shuts-... There was another at a restaurant where some Gamergaters were having a party.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by 2xlbuds on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:51PM (#17306822)

KotakuInAction is an alt-right cesspool. It contributed to the rise of breitbart, and Milo Yannopolis got famous by writing articles about gamergate targetted to their audience.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by patrickmay on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:03PM (#17306924)

That assessment reveals more about your personal politics than it does about that subreddit.

Like I said above, there are a number of self-styled "progressives" online who are unable to have a rational discussion on this topic.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by 2xlbuds on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:40PM (#17307222)

I speak as someone who checked it occasionally during the whole debacle - gamergate quickly became a referendum on feminism and women's place in the games industry, and I was disgusted by what I read, so I stopped going there.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by themaninthedark on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @06:32PM (#17307564)

If it is a referendum on woman place then why are feminists like Christina Marie Hoff Sommers accepted?

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