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Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment
squiggleslash writes Brianna Wu, a game studio owner in Boston, found herself the target of numerous anonymous death threats last month, apparently the escalation of a campaign that started when she spoke up for women in gaming, and that intensified during the GamerGate train wreck. Rather than hide, she's offering an $11,000+ cash reward for anyone who helps put her attacker in jail, and she's reporting — albeit at a time many see GamerGate being in its death throes — that it's already having an effect. Wu is also setting up a legal fund to go after those promoting more extreme libels against her and others, with screenshots of a forged tweet purporting to be written by her still circulating around the Internet.
Another hit-piece that quotes a drama-queen tranny with no critique whatsoever. Woo hoo.
Her attacker? Saying something online constitutes an attack now?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Yes death threats are serious business *if there's weight behind them* i.e they post a picture of your house
Otherwise you're just being a huge tool. Use the report/block button
God damn.
Wu has shown himself to be a dishonest cunt time and time again. Best call the internet police. I don't give a fuck.
I'm fully in support of her goals, and against GooberGate, but I don't know if what she can accomplish is reasonable or feasible.
That being said, I do wish her actual luck in this. Ignoring abusive trolls hasn't amounted to much, feeding them until they explode doesn't do anything, ... it's like trying to pin down a gelatinous cube. All other options have been exhausted dealing with shitty trolls, why not? I just don't have particular optimism it'll work.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
1. Why do we seriously need threats prison time to get people to knock off threating to rape and murder people, or threats of lawsuits to have people not forge the kind of libelous "evidence" that drives such hatred in the first place?"
2. What happens to those without the resources? I'm guessing most of those who suffer this kind of extreme harassment aren't rich enough to own game studios.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You can get 2-3 separate hitmen or whole gang after your target for $11,000 total.
I'm sure you can even bribe some doctor for less to get them admitted to some mental asylum and fucked up with strong drugs for the rest of their lives.
I could use $11,000.
Too bad I have no clue who was sending those threats.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Dear Internet,
We, the women of the Internet, hereby demand to be treated with respect and dignity. We refuse to be talked down to, insulted, or otherwise degraded while on-line. Furthermore we demand that you finally acknowledge that we do in fact understand technology and the internet as well as any...
Why are you laughing?!?! STOP LAUGHING! That's it, I'm suing someone! Give me your name... got it... Seemore... Butts... Got it, We'll be seeing you in court... Mr.... hey!!! Get back here.
I guess that's a better solution than creating a new law enforcement agency to police trolls.
" albeit at a time many see GamerGate being in its death throes"
Who's saying that?
Oh that's right... people like Brianna Wu who claims she's winning because she's uh... gotta sue people who are no longer bothering her.
It's NOT in its death throes, the media has to prop up that story to claim victory after many corporations pulled funding from gaming mags and sites that attacked gamers for being misogynists.
This entire PR campaign has been nothing but pomp and circumstance to promote a meme and it FAILED.
Way too unattractive for me to want to insert my fetid cock inside her rancid rectum. I'd rather have it off with timothy.
What say you, timothy?
Fu**ing attention whore
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...
She was not the target of anything but the trolls she drew to herself by saying stupid shit and labeling the response as 'harassment.' When will people stop falling for these professional victims?
The NYPD has a similar program of bounties that is reasonably well known. Given that various Crime Stoppers programs have been going on since 1975, I expect they're reasonably effective.
I think this woman and Chris Chan have a lot in common, including love for video games and bitching continually about internet trolls.
Feminist have banned the marriage of female children to men nearly the world over now.
Child marriage of girls to men is allowed in the Old Testament.
(read deuteronomy 22 28-29 in hebrew, as one example)
Feminists should be killed en masse.
Even if caught, the prepubescent boys trolling her aren't going to end up in jail over this.
Now if she could somehow bait one of them into posting a random, nonspecific remark about potentially shooting up a school on Facebook.. that might work...
It's sad how easily "children" and "terrorism"^W^W^W "misogyny" and "harassment" became the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.
Damn my spotlight is fading out. Lets get the media machine going so I can get back in the limelight.
Really I don't know which bothers me more, that the press forms these phalanxes to shove alternate realities down our throats in a way that would have George Orwell blanching or that people line up and lap it up.
Do you seriously think if anyone didn't want the death threats and publicity that comes with them, they would go around DARING people on the internet to make threats against them ?
How does this relate to technology in any way whatsoever? Is Slashdot trying to become the next TMZ?
Did they ever find his wife's real killer?
TH3 C0NS3QU3NC3S W1LL N3V3R B3 HHHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGG.....
It's about time that teenage shitheads, and those who should have grown out of being teenage shitheads by now, realise that older engineers didn't create the internet just so they could to get their kicks by being antisocial shitheads towards everyone around them.
A feminist police state.
And they have it.
Men have never fought against feminism physically.
They just accepted the banning of child marraige, then banning marital rape, then banning "stalking", then banning communication and speech.
Jails for men.
Then bullets for feminists please.
Please.
It's not even about that one guy. This is a (repeated) tactic to slander other people who legitimately disagree with her, and distract from the Gamergate scandal.
If Nathan Grayson, Patricia Hernandez, et al were Republicans, Gamergate would be handled exactly like the journalism scandal that it is. The corrupt writers would lose their jobs, their employers would acknowledge the seriousness of the situation and at least attempt to convince us that that it wouldn't happen again, and the rest of their ilk would be watched like a hawk for evidence of similar transgressions for a long, long time.
But no. Because the perpetrators were extreme leftists, they're afraid that the scandal might give folks like Fox News and Limbaugh political ammo*, so there was a complete media blackout, the likes of which I've never seen before (not a SINGLE article detailing the corruption, on ANY tech/gaming site, for a week). Another part of the blackout was blanket censorship in user forums/comments, up to and including reddit and--no bullshit--4chan. IMO this censorship of users merely discussing the scandal is still the most oppressive (and damning) anti-GG measure of all.
And then when the blackout didn't work, they colluded in a synchronized shotgun blast of articles to slander their core audience and intimidate any dissenters among them. The long-running smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Dead" articles continues to this day, and the popularity of Gamergate is the long-running response to it. Every criticism and call for integrity is met with completely irrelevant accusations of misogyny and right-wing motivations. Gamers are (rightly) astonished and appalled to see corruption defended so vigorously (and uniformly).
And now that the smear campaign isn't working either, anonymous threats are used as an excuse to again slander the movement (this time as terrorists) and completely ignore the corruption. So of course as the smear campaign ramped up, the popularity of Gamergate ramped up accordingly--it's averaged over 50K tweets per day for a while now. And the gaming press, having addressed almost none of its ethics issues (to say nothing of its contempt for the gaming community), regularly feigns disbelief that Gamergate hasn't "burned out" yet in one-sided opinion pieces that, if anything, more than prove the need for the movement.
The crazy thing is that Gamergate itself is largely leftist. I am right-wing on many issues, but I've been impressed by (and learned something from) the integrity of the vast majority of left-leaning individuals in Gamergate. They just want journalism they can trust. They want the bad eggs removed, even if the bad eggs share many of their political stances. They understand that circling the wagons to protect "the cause" and "do good work" is likely to result in far more harm to the cause in the long run.
The mainstream media has now taken notice, and is just as happy as the tech press to pretend the journalistic lapses and cover up never happened, and to slander Gamergate as right-wing misogynist terrorists, all to support the invented narrative. It's an all too familiar story to those of us who've seen the mainstream media portray DVD ripping as grand theft auto, net neutrality as communism, or Jack Thompson as a defender of morality. But in this case, unbelievably, even here on Slashdot there hasn't been a Gamergate article yet that doesn't go out of its way to frame the whole issue in terms of misogyny and harrassment (much less an article that's pro- or even neutral). Is Slashdot politically motivated to misrepresent this issue? The question is moot, because most of those articles got 500-1200 replies each, so the Gawker-style clickbaiting is motivation enough. As far as we know, Slashdot's editors are kicking themselves for not praising Jack Thompson years ago as a hero activist.
* not an invalid fear, but you have to cross that bridge when you come to it. If you try to pre-emptively murder the truth then you
The threats were not serious. Going "OMG they have my ADDRESS!!! I have to move out!!!" She reported it to the police (the right thing to do) but temporarily moving was HER decision, not a police recommendation.
People who make threats on the Internet do so because they're scared punks who hide behind anonymity. Would they actually go and DO something physical? Of course not - that would risk the very anonymity that allows them to act like punks in the first place.
I get it - you let a bunch of anonymous freaks get to you. But doesn't there come a time when you should stop feeding them by showing how seriously you take them? The perps are laughing themselves silly at this point, because that's what trolls do - get an emotional (as opposed to rational) reaction. Anyone connected with IT knows you DFTT - unless you're trolling them back :-)
Time was when everyone's name and address were public - we had this thing called a "phone book". For those of you too young to remember, go watch the original Terminator, where "Ahh-nold" gets the list of Sarah Connors from a phone book. Who cares is some coward has your address? Really?
And before some punk says "So why don't you post your address online for all the cyber-bullies?" - already did that in another user's journal discussion on gamergate.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I hope you are killed without a threat then.
All you progressive fucking pieces of shit are against things like men marrying young girls. You are against the man being the master. You like that men are imprisoned for marital rape or trying to marry a female child (all fine as per the Old Testament (allows child marraige of girls)).
Deuteronomy says you need to die you fucking piece of shit.
(As you are against its tenates and try to bring others into your fold)
Hope the money was worth it.
FBI and DHS are investigating and have CONFIRMED that two of the women claiming to have RECEIVED death threats... SENT THEM TO THEMSELVES.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/859/945/263.jpg
Past example: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/womens-rights-activist-charged-with-rape-threat-hoax-on-face
here's how to prove it's a publicity stunt:
make her put the money in an escrow account that can't be removed for 1 year. unless she does that, we know that it's a publicity stunt. Her $11,000 reward is nothing more than a lie.
Does she still pay when it's revealed she made the death threats herself?
They seriously do it for positive attention and sympathy. It's a scam.
You ignore the trolls, that's what men do. Women apparently aren't strong enough to do that.
This is feeding the trolls.
You receive death threats, you tell the police and let them do their thing.
XDInd
This is probably a great way to actually harass someone. Imagine setting a bounty on to get an arbitrary public official put in jail.
This is the only way to shut this down. Once someone is put in the slammer everyone will realize you cant use Twitter to make death threats. I am glad the FBI is treating this seirously. Had Banksters been threatened in this manner it would have been shut down instantly. It is time to take violence against women seriously.
"She"? Suuuuuuuuure. It's a trap!
Sadly most trolls don't.
A few drones would solve this problem.
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The one thing that both sides can agree on is that the perpetrators should go to jail, they just both think that it is the other side doing the harassment.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Wu is trying to draw a link between Gamergate and the tragedy in Port Orchard - https://twitter.com/Spacekatga...
Irregardless of the fact that: Gamergate discussion is actively prohibited on 4chan, the murderer has no connection to Gamergate, and no death threats were involved.
Please stop giving this woman a platform. She's obviously in it for the advertising and attention. Screenshots of her game have been plastered all over news articles for weeks now. She's self-reporting that she no longer receives threats so that can't be the excuse anymore.
Yelling "Fire" in a movie theater is far less terrifying than receiving a death threat. But people do not yell "Fire" in theaters because it is considered socially unacceptable even as a prank. Why are we not raising the same level of social pressure when people send death or rape threats?
Death or rape threats are never a joke just like yelling "Fire" in a theater is never a joke. This is especially true for a woman or girl when they receive one. It is really bad to teach women that they should "Laugh it off" or "Get a thinker skin" in response to a direct threat to their personal safety. Is this how you want your daughters or sisters or mothers to be treated?
I believe the entire GamerGate is a hoax. From the cheated on boyfriend to fake death threats. Unpopular, unsuccessful people suddenly became famous as victims. A rich whinger "leaves" the gaming industry again. State and Federal laws are not enforced because nothing happened in the first place. Susceptible morons post ad nauseum about victimhood. No laws or threats have been found. To paraphrase Richard Dawkins, a gay man with nothing to gain from kissing feminist rear, "grow up you insanely spoilt brats. You are not meant to always get your own way."
PS: A drug addict/dealer really did once buy a gun to shoot me. Now try to lecture me about threats
I'm assuming that there are no females here on \. and that a majority of us are white. Why do we have to care about every single woman getting trolled by some basement-dwelling 13 year olds?
When someone yells "fire" in a movie theatre, everyone can see the guy. When someone on the internet makes a death threat, he might be doing it through Tor or public wi-fi and there is no straightforward way to determine his identity. Should we then end anonymous communication on the internet entirely?
And who gives a shit?
too bad you couldn't be bothered to include a link to the game studio.
If it matters that she owns a game studio, don't you think it matters what game studio she owns?
http://revolution60.com/page4/index.html
#timothygate
What kinds of deformed characters harass someone like this. And apparently misogynists to boot. Pathetic idiots. It is heartening that most of the posters here are appalled.
The gaming community is angry because the whole GamerGate scandal exposed how the entire gaming media industry works together to control the opinions of the gaming community through lies and propaganda. Further, no major media publication is actually trying to explain GamerGate. Even Wikipedia leaves out the details.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... Here's a quick GamerGate explanation: (I believe this one is closer to the truth) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... It's really sad how every major publication leaves out half the story and instead tries to paint the gaming community as the source of the problem. Also, I really doubt the gaming community as a whole would condone any threats of violence against these women.
--- We need more Ron Paul!
No, wait, Literally Who? Sorry, couldn't help it.
If this really is a law enforcement matter, I don't see the point of the bounties and the "legal defense fund". The same tools available to the doxxing crowd should be available to the police or anyone sympathetic with the victim. Investigating this should not be a big deal even for the cops.
The bounties seem to be more about grand standing than anything else.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Well, I see Slashdot has finally succumbed to posting a clickbait article about #gamergate. Let the shitposts commence!
don't seem to know what escalation is.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Wouldn't it be funny if the pro-GG side found the person sending the threats and collected on the $11k? A few months ago when GG was still housed on /v/ the reaction to people posting hateful/abrasive stuff on twatter was always called out and the poster berated for being an idiot. The pro-GG side doesn't stand for harassment on either side; the ones harassing people are on the extremes or are trolls looking to make trouble.
Food for thought: The major camps in GG can be summed up like this:
1. Trolls who make the death threats or are trying to inflame the issue (both sides).
2. People genuinely concerned with ethics in games Journalism (TotalBiscuit).
3. "Games Journalism" Media/central anti figures (Quinn, Wu, etc, anti), attempting to either silence group 2's dissent or gain fame by playing up their victimization. The "'"I'm being forced out of my home by death threats' on her way to the airport to fly to a conference filled with thousands of people she doesn't know" type and the "gamers are dead" type.
4. Those reacting to group 3's name-calling/bully-tactics (Boogie). The "average Joe/Jane" gamer who doesn't like being called a misogynist or a hateful person for just playing games.
5. Those supporting group 3 because of the harassment from group 1 (pro), who seem to be seeing a social issue (innocent woman being attacked by evil men) and want to fight against that. Views group 2/4 as slut-shaming victim-blaming patriarchy and has no intention of changing that view.
I also found it rather ironic when Sarkeesian went on Colbert and talked about how too many women portrayed in video games were damsels in distress and asked why more women couldn't solve their own problems.
Brianna Wu is a post op trans-sexual from what I have read. As such, hardly a woman. A trans, sure. That's not a woman, and no one would rationally call Brianna Wu a woman any more than a dog is a cat. No matter how the fur of a dog is clipped. Its still a dog.
The troll is only given power by those that respond. Don't like the trolls? Then don't feed them. It really is that simple. What we really have here is professional trolls going on a rampage and the inevitable and foreseeable backlash occuring.
This includes the original SJWs, as well as the initial media outlets that "rushed to their defense", and all the rest that have just exploited the circus afterwards.
A lot of "gamer gate" is just paying customers pissed off that the industry mouthpieces decided to insult them all.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
You cannot ignore death threats. You cannot ignore the real life results of having your private information thrown to an agressive public.
That shit is harassment. And harassment is criminal activity.
Somone(s) on my youtube gaming channel didn't take kindly to my opinion regarding anarcho-capitalism. I didn't publicize that it happened. The first thing that I did was contact the FBI and let them look into it.
Don't know who the woman in this story is but she sounds like an attention whore begging for as much public sympathy as she can get. Was it a real death threat? I hope she's contacted someone besides the peanut gallery to find out.
Don't work for me. Most of the dev shops I've managed have been so ridiculously gender unbalanced that there are men who think it is actually acceptable to put up girlie mag art in their cubicles. Seriously, if that is the crap you want to defend, you have no place on my team. If you are unwilling to proactively work for a more balanced work environment, even if it is just telling said bone-head to take down the girlie mags, you don't need to be one of my employees.
Don't join my guild. I don't want to listen to you belittle women on vent. I don't want to hear about how "girls can only heal". I don't want to hear how you "raped" that boss. You know who got raped? Do you know more than 5 women? Odds are at least one of them have been raped. So when you're pwning that boss, and you're about to squeal with delight over "raping" it, just think, it could be your mother, your sister, your wife, your highschool sweet heart, that lady from accounting...
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
She attacked millions of gamers and threatened to take away some of the features of their games. The threats she made are credible, since there are plenty of game companies that listen to people like her and might actually implement or partly implement her ideas. She is, of course, legally entitled to shame individuals and companies for doing things she considers unethical -- nevertheless, doing so is an attack on many people's social standing and a threat to something they value; such attacks always make people angry and incite a counterattack. In the case of Brianna Wu, some those attacks went beyond acceptable and protected speech and into libel and death threats (somewhat credible ones, with her name and address).
While few of us will miss a couple of angry idiots on the internet should she manage to catch some, if she was surprised by what happened she may get herself in trouble again. When someone's social standing is attacked, they treat it as a physical attack, including activation of the fight-or-flight response. This is because throughout our evolutionary past, an attack on someone's social standing is frequently followed by immediate or delayed physical violence against them. This remains true even today, for example how America verbally attacked Iraq before bombing them, or how Hitler verbally attacked the Jews before executing them. However, most people only know that "she made me angry". And people do stupid things when they're angry. And evolution has killed off anyone who ignores attacks on their social status (this is true in other social animals as well as humans). Long story short, calling a large group of people immoral is and will continue to be a dangerous thing to do.
As to whether her efforts will help women: I don't know. Games could desensitize people, or they could act as a harmless release that would otherwise be applied on real people. Some research shows that immoral behavior in a video game can lead to nicer real-world behavior, although that may only work when the game forces you to act in a way you feel guilty (most games let you choose), and who knows if the long-term effects are similar to the short-term effects. But mostly, I think that games contain sexism because the real world contains sexism.
On that note, why focus on video games? Is there any indication that improving the conditions in video games will lead to better real-world conditions with less effort than directly working to improve real-world conditions? My opinion: go after the fashion and cosmetics industries. These industries thrive on making women sex objects, damage their health (see high heels) and self-esteem, and most importantly almost all their customers are women, so you should have "no trouble" organizing a boycott. Even better, the backlash you will receive from them will greatly improve your opinion of male gamers.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Why, what's she designed?
I'll bite:
Yes, we should.
Anonymity encourages people to be assholes.
Anyone know how OJ's quest to find "the real killers" is going? Because that's what this reminds me of, especially because the "death threats" she received turn out to be identical to those sent to other people earlier.
So best of luck to OJ Wu in getting the police to find "the real killers". I'm sure it'll be any day now, she'll locate them...
Okay, affect/effect, not a huge deal other than making Slashdot look amateurish, but there's a plural "s" missing after "attacker" which makes it sound like there's just one person they're after.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I mean, it may well work for Brianna Wu. However as others have pointed out, most people don't have that kind of money to defend themselves. We really need the police (?) or bylaw or forum administrators to handle this stuff systematically. Yes, I know all about unmoderated forums, don't bother.
When most citizens offer a bounty the purpose is to save a loved one. Brianna is using a bounty to get someone jailed. This is veering towards vigilantism. Not saying that it is vigilantism, just that instead of doing good for someone good, Wu's proposal is designed to do something bad to someone bad. Morally this is problematic, especially since Wu is the aggrieved party. An independent operation like CrimeStoppers is a more defensible way to handle something like this.
Finally, I question both the proposition that threats on the Internet mean "immediate danger" or "nothing at all". One of the lessons of recent years is that lots of people say lots of stuff. Most will never act on their nasty words. The problem is that every once in a while, we have a troubled person, mentally unstable perhaps, criminal or just plain evil. That one in 10,000 might act.
> I went one better and googled it: http://www.statista.com/statis... [statista.com]
If your link is to be believed, nobody under the age of 15 uses the internet.
Maybe you should find a more credible source than 10 seconds of googling? :)
In a targeted manner yes.
By that I mean, when you have identified an anonymous actor that uses a recurring name lets call them "Anonymouse"
If they are regularly making anonymous threats against someone, which is credible (using their home address) especially when motivated (targeting someone that is considered a focal point of criticism re a public topic, like gamergate) then the police should use the powers at their disposal, like search warrants, to end the anonymous communiation of this person on the internet.
No one has ever said we should end anonymous communication, but if people have a reasonable expectation that when they make public, credible and/or motivated threats on the internet, that their anonymity will be forfeited. No one ever wants to forfeit anonymity for the entire internet.
Thinking about it, what you have just made is a straw man argument.
I've been threatened with death while being held up by my shirt collar after being slammed up against the wall. Cops didn't give a shit. You really think you're going to get their attention for meaningless threats from some random internet troll?
Wu, like Sarkeesian and Quinn, plays up the threats as a shield against any criticism of what they are saying and doing. "Oh, poor me, I've been driven out of my home, and anyone who criticizes anything I say is part of that".
OK, buck up folks. Grow a pair. Stop living like cowards. These days if Jackie Gleason balled up his fist and sain "To the moon Alice" it would be taken as a criminal offense and endless nonsense would have followed. Yes life is filled with danger. Italways has been. And we have less danger now than at any time in history. We no longer live if terror waiting for the next Viking raid or Apache war party. Getting a tooth pulled is so easy i can't believe it. Imagine getting a tooth pulled in 1850. We have it easy in so many ways that most folks have no clue as to how easy things are for us. But we still have cowards and people of low faith who think every casual remark is a deadly threat. Guns are not seen as a useful tool but viewed like a deadly viper that is likely to strike at any moment dispite the fact that very few people have ever sen a gun incident much less get involved in one. And get real folks. Your doctor knows long lists of diseases that can torture you beyond all understanding. By comparison a bullet or death by a knife or bomb is trivial and rather fast. If my forefathers coul survive crossing vast oceans in wooden boats and crossing a new continent I think I can do just fine and not be nervous about childish threats.
but isn't that the person who slept with reviewers to get good ratings? When that was found out she pulled all kind of crap to silence the critics. Now the spin is she spoke up for women?
What good is a local police search warrant going to do when it could be some guy in Germany connecting to public wi-fi with a randomized MAC, or some one in Madagascar using Tor? Sometimes the FBI with possible NSA help goes after big fish like the Silk Road owner (but note they didn't spend resources on going after many individual Silk Road buyers and sellers), but I don't think this is going to considered worth it for the legions of small-time 4Chan pranksters, especially when they are located outside the US.
"You are not very bright are you?
Indie games are accepted into Steam by voting. Those with big media exposition (like her "game") get lots of votes and are approved easily."
Show me all this big media coverage. You can't, because it doesn't exist, you fucking idiot. It shows up once, on a list by Grayson, after it had already been greenlit. Prior to that it was mostly positive word of mouth on /v/ before Quinnspiracy took off.
The most amazing thing about this is that you retards can't even keep straight what you're upset about.
Dead or Alive?
No. Just report it to the police. It's their job to hunt criminals. Giving the job to normal people for a bounty is self justice. No good move, Mrs. Wu. You are no better than people harassing you verbally, you even start a headhunt on people.
Don't forget to take your meds
The best way to enrage a biggot is to show him that he's a biggot. Gamergate has enraged a lot of biggots. Problem is, some of these biggots have nothing better to do than harrass and threaten the people they don't like, i.e. people who aren't like them. You don't have to be like the person/people they've chosen to harrass and threaten this time around to be their next focus of attack, you just have to be different to them. Everyone's vulnerable. Now someone has to deal with them before they pick their next target. What's the best way to deal with trolls again?
violent reactions to herself, then uses that to get all the attention her mental illness compels her to seek out.
"Media" promotes her mentally ill agenda because it gets clicks.
Nothing new here at all.
... and no one threatens me. Bounties would be nice... but I think I'd start out with the simple solution: you threaten me, you're a coward. Come on, show up at at and try to kill me... or are you that much of a coward that you can't deal with what I said, and if you actually do something, you'll want to shoot me in the back, just like any *coward*.
mark
PS trolls - yeah, your cock *is* too small, and if you've ever gotten laid, you've never been able to satisfy a woman - you're just a selfish little kid, not a man.
The hashtag might be dying. But the movement and the idea behind it is still going strong.
I only found this earlier today, but it pretty much tears it for me. For a transsexual, Ms. Wu makes some rather odd observations. From her Livejournal account
I watched LOGO, our nationwide channel for gay issues, for the first time this morning. I walked away from the experience feeling it was incredibly pandering and solipsistic. It got me thinking about voices in the media and minority rights.
Let me preface this blog by saying that I think gay rights are the preeminent moral issue of our time, the modern equivalent of slavery. It's one of the top three issues I vote on, and I fully intend to go to demonstrate in Denver's gay pride parade in two weeks. It bothers me deeply that 1/10th of America's population are treated like 2nd class citizens.
That said, I think it's an error to see women's issues and gay issues as synonymous.
I don't especially feel that gays are allies when it comes to women. I think that we usually get along well, but I have occasionally felt that gays see us primarily as competition for the penis. When I watch drag queens, I can't help but feel insulted - as if that offensive cartoon is what they think feminine truth is.
There are so many issues women have that gay men never have to think about. Our increased health care costs, equal pay issues, access to reproductive health care and the threat of rape and violence. Concordantly, there are many gay issues that don't affect me - I've never had to worry that society didn't approve of my sexuality or marriage rights.
It does help that our enemies are the same, the fundamentalist conservatives that would deny us the right to make our own choices. The lunatic fringe would deny me the right to make choices about my body, and they'd just as quickly send the gays off to sexual reeducation camp. We are united against the patriarchal oppressors that think they know what's best for us.
There are some transsexuals who go to the extreme of trying to conform to what they see as "real woman's behavior" (which means adhering to stereotypes), by criticizing others in the LGBTt community, so as to deflect suspicion away from them. Same as there are gay politicians and preachers who get up on the pulpit and denounce same-sex marriage and homosexuality as sins.
This is not over-compensation. This is a dysfunctional behavior - putting down others so as to fit in with the crowd is the least part of it.
And for someone claiming to be trying to stand up for women, have you seen the hypersexualized women characters on her own web site? Skinny waists that would beat a Barbie Doll, overly-broad hips, at a time when we're trying to encourage girls (and women) to have more realistic expectations by not photoshopping 50 pounds off here, 20 pounds on there ... and she's offended by the way drag queens portray women???
Enough is enough.. We've been trolled.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Fixed that for you. Feminists think anything that talks bad about a female is sexism when it when all about her bad behavior. Which was reprehensible. But hey maybe she can sleep with 5 district attorneys for protection and then feminist shills can "speak up for women in DA Offices".
The kind of people who are likely to oppose women's rights are highly unlikely to consider "Brianna Wu," formerly John Walker Flynt, a woman.