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EFF Moves To Nix Trademark On "Gaymer"
netbuzz writes "Spurred by the mark holder's cease and desist letter to Reddit's subreddit r/gaymer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today officially petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rescind its grant of a trademark registration on the word "gaymer". 'This registration should never have been granted,' said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry. 'Gaymer is a common term that refers to members of this vibrant gaming community, and we are happy to help them fight back and make sure the term goes back to the public domain where it belongs.'"
How do you call gamers that love cheese? There must be a word for that.
Men are treated jsut as bad as the girls. Stop perpetuating the myth that women are persecuted more online then men. Girls are more sensitive about it, but i have been called things by other men online that would give ANY human pause. It might take different forms, but the hate goes everywhere.
Good-bye
bheersen, as you have made wild assumptions about me, I was able to deeply gauge your mindset just by one single line: "Straight white American males are not persecuted in any way."
This tells me a lot about you. It is often used by people who hate how awesome white people are. Skin color doesn't matter in this aspect because it is often felt by whites and so-called "minorities." You've been exposed to media all of your life saying "whites are evil and you should be ashamed of yourself because you are white." It might not be that direct but that is the general message you've been fed your entire life by people who wish to see the white race cease to exist.
We both acknowledge the barriers these other ethnicities face in achieving success. We just disagree on the source of said barriers. You blame it on white people. I blame it on their cultures and interference from a certain 1.8% of the population who tend to own all of the apartments in the areas that said minorities live in and then proceed to charge them high rent rates.
Is it so hard for you to realize that I may have encountered many other self-hating whites who've fallen hook line and sinker into the "exterminate whitey" fad? Don't worry though, I'm here to help you overcome this character flaw.
There are people in this world who are paralyzed from the neck down. Some of them it is because of their own negligence, but others because of the careless actions of a stranger. Would you paralyze yourself or others like you to lower the amount of working body privilege? Because this is essentially what you are doing when you punish the white race for paying bills on time, showing up to work on time, and generally being competent.