Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials

An anonymous reader writes Processor firm Intel has withdrawn its advertising from Gamasutra in response to the site's decision to carry feminist articles. The articles had drawn the ire of the self-described "Gater" movement, a grass-roots campaign to discredit prominent female games journalists. Intel was apparently so inundated with criticism for sponsoring the Gamasutra site that it had no choice but to withdraw support. An Intel spokesperson explained that "We take feedback from our customers very seriously especially as it relates to contextually relevant content and placements" and as such Gamasutra was no longer an appropriate venue for their products."

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Re:gtfo

[bluefoxlucid]

Pretty much just a subset of overbearing progressive nutjobs who don't operate within reality.

You have hyper-conservatives, you have the forward-thinking folks, and then you have crazy progressives who want to change everything if the wind blows. Researchers and scientists are supposed to sit in the middle: let's learn more, examine it, toy with it, and then apply it. Hyper-conservatives are afraid of any movement; while progressives are of the "we dropped a pin and it bounced left instead of right! Everything we know about pins is wrong! They bounce left! Reorient the whole world to protect against sharp things on the left side of everything!" attitude.

Social progressives often find fault in individual behavior because it offends them, and they want to play nanny and tell everyone to behave nicely. They then target huge platforms and demand sweeping changes and social shame. They demand immediate resolution. They want it by any means necessary, so they lie, cheat, verbally assault, and generally act like nuisances. Thus nobody likes them.

When a black man walks into a courtroom to testify about workplace misconduct and wrongful termination, you don't see a discriminatory employer and a wronged man; you see a whiner who got fired because he's a lazy negro who's never done an honest hour's work in his life. It's never Martin Luther King, Jr, walking up to the stand; it's always the Black Panthers, the Trayvon rioters, Jessie Jackson, hood drug dealers, and hood gang members coming to complain about "The Man" because they need something to complain about. That's who you see standing before you.

That's what progressives do: They make real issues illegitimate by associating a group of people with a bunch of whiny babies. They legitimize the narrative that these people--femenists, gays, blacks--whine and cry about everything, and that their grievances are invented sob stories not rooted in reality.

You don't win a war by throwing a tantrum and dropping bombs all over the place. You take metered steps, pick your battles, and work your way along. That's what the ACLU is for: it provides lawyers when people are discriminated against, lending them the power to fight back. You don't stand around crying about it; you simply refuse to tolerate it.

Re:Umm, no

[serviscope_minor]

In particular, they pointed to a claim that a female game developer had had sexual relationships with male game journalists around the same time that they provided positive reviews of or financial backing for her game.

Was that Zoe Quinn? This person has some interesting things to say about that:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-...