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Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question
Brianna Wu is the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a company specializing in cinematic experiences using the Unreal engine. She’s also a frequent speaker on women-in-tech issues and was one of several women subjected to a campaign of attacks in Gamergate. Wu has worked as a journalist and politico. She currently has a patreon campaign which helps to offset the costs of doing speaking engagements and work to further the goals of feminism and women in tech. Brianna has agreed to give us some of her time and answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
What was your college life like?
Are y'all doing anything aimed at dome projectors for a planetarium?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
If you haven't heard it enough yet, you and your fellow devs'/critics'/gamers' example of not letting these regrettably small-minded folk drive you away from your passions is truly inspiring. Now the question:
How has what you experienced / currently experience affected your dev and planning processes? Does it enter into your spitballing/design sketch/engineering phases at all? Are you making certain decisions to emphasize your position(s) or expose theirs?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
When you aren't one ?
I never heard much about game developers, but it seems like GamerGate has put many of them in the spotlight, specially women.
Has the Gamergate movement somehow boosted your popularity and of other game developers and benefited you in any way? Do you regret that a big part your popularity didn't stem from the work you've made all these years in your professional life and rather from a political counter-movement?
Sorry for my lousy english.
You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
So, instead of taking the opportunity to ask her anything you want, you're going to leave the site for giving you this chance? Well, enjoy that, I guess...
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Hi Brianna. Gamergate kicked a major wasp nest of assholes but it also brought the issue of women in tech into focus for a lot of people that didn't understand the depth of the problem. Have you noticed any improvements for women in the industry since GG?
Some excellent, serious questions she should answer.
- How does she explain the constant attacks by anti-gamergate against minorities in general? For example the mocking of #NotYourShield, the constant use of insults volleyed at minorities that disagree with her including the use of the term "House N*gger" by her supporters?
- How does she explain the constant attacks against women that disagree with her?
- How does she explain that early on in GamerGate she and former Ars technica reporter Casey Johnston retweeted an anti-gamergate supporter calling two minority gamers "Black Sewer Sh*t".
Are you ever going to stop criticizing other developers for having character design that is in fact less "hypersexualized" and "misogynistic" than yours is?
> boy's club
Incredibly ironic, since briana wu aka john walker flynt is actually a man.
Not directly no. I don't and I haven't. My direct experience has been just the opposite with folks bending over backwards to give them a shot. If you are female and have even a basic aptitude you can write your own ticket at most places I've worked. I'm not saying women don't suffer negative experiences but disproportionately? I don't think so.
On your Patreon, it says you're the Godzilla of Feminists. Do you have any concept/fan art of this? Because that would be incredibly awesome.
I'm interested in what development languages you excel in and how you mastered them - as head of development for a gaming company, I think that's my first question. Follow-up side-points would be when you transitioned from journalist to game developer, and why game development? Was it related to some of the 'sparks' and 'movements' by some other females 'in the gaming community' - and seen as an easy way to jump on a bandwagon that was clearly going to make waves? Journalist to developer just seems like a very strange transition to me, so I'm curious about the particulars.
Do you have a github account where you publish some of your code?
http://www.giantspacekat.com/games-1
Without comment I promise you its worth it.
You misunderstand, Im sure Wu has had plenty of horrific experiences, I just think most of them have been brought upon herself for the purpose of garnering attention, sympathy and money. I know plenty of women in male dominated industries, specifically 3D illustration and programming (>80% male in my experience), none of them have experienced anything even remotely akin to a 'boys club'. Yes it's a sausage-fest, but they're generally perfectly accepting of any women that they get to work with. My main objection is that somebody with a reputation of milking every penny of sympathy they possibly can from those gullible enough to believe everything she says, has somehow obtained a Slashdot frontpage entry *with a link to her donation page*. Regardless of what you or I think of her, it beggars belief that even for a Q&A promotion the "Im a victim, give me money" link still gets through.
she was caught faking her own harassment.
I have no problem with asking a women in tech (even one that experienced an abnormal amount of ill will or perhaps even overt sexism) about their experiences and how being a woman has affected their career and how they look at the world of tech. Having a less masculine perspective is fine, I want women to feel welcome and their ideas represented... But my number one question in this case would have to be why THIS person?
Did Wu contact Slashdot first for some reason? If so, why? Was this meant to go well or did Wu intend on this going badly?
In the case that Slashdot contacted her, the same questions apply.
Of ALL the women, they chose one of the very few that would get the most adverse reaction possible at this time. If that isn't fishy, I don't know what would be.
Also, not posting as AC because I legitimately feel like these are important questions to ask. I don't know if this is malicious, or simply not thought through well.
And I'll bet real hard cash that she ignores every single question of any merit. Wu has been asked many many many questions over the months, she has pretty much refused to answer a single one, instead resorting to calling people sealions for having the audacity to question her official line. All we will see here is a puff piece, the answered questions will all be about how she's a victim, how people should send her money and how she's completely innocent of any wrong doing. Can't wait to see the hug box in action.
your attempt at snark is pretty bad
Ms Wu, you've been accused of exaggerating the scale of the harassment against you. For example, you've stated that you were so scared that you moved out of your home, but a number of people were able to reconstruct the location of your various online broadcasts and establish rather conclusively that they were all made from your home.
How do you respond to this? Were you actually scared out of your home or not? When?
Hi Brianna, thank you for coming by and speaking with us. Considering your prominence and activism in the gaming community at large, why are you working with third parties to manufacture death threats against yourself?
http://i.imgur.com/dt9fFtg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/M02QAOe.png
It is very brave of you to stand in the face of such threats.
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam or twitter and faking having to leave your house over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
(Ob Disclaimer: Disagreeing with someone is not harassment. Asking people hard questions or holding them accountable to their own actions is not Harassment. Disagreeing with a woman (or in this instance, a transwoman) is not misogyny. Transmisogyny is not a real word. Treating women with kid gloves because they are female is sexism. Brianna Wu is a known con artist, and should never have been invited on Slashdot Interviews.)
Is it true that you (or Phil Fish) hacked yourself in 2014, and that's the reason why nobody has ever been found or charged?
Buck Feta. You know what to do.
Are you happy with the changes made to PAX East? I was there and found the security and Muslim-like bans on bare skin there more than enough for my liking and plan to stop attending.
I am a 30 year old white male teaching CS in a public US university. Is there anything you think I can do to help the issues related to "women in tech" in the broad sense?
What's next for slashdot? Will we have breaking news stories about Nigerian princes, forced to flee their homes, who just need a bank account to store their millions?
As a fellow transgender game dev it was great to see a fellow transsexual do so well in the industry. You are an inspiration to all trans devs
Also isn't your whole narrative that you're afraid of Gators. But you clearly show no fear in the video. Doesn't that mean your claim that GamerGaters drove you from your home is a lie?
Trans-genre?! Christ, what's next?!
Why is this modded down? It reveals a fact: that "Brianna Wu" was born "John Walker Flynt," and was born male.
Way to miss the point. This post is bait. Slashdot does fine as a respite from the gamergate and all associated bullshit. Would like to keep it that way.
User since 1998.
When spouting off your mistaken and deceptive rants about Privilege -- male privilege, race privilege, cis privilege, et cetera -- why do you and other Social Justice Warrior demagogues ignore Class Privilege, arguably the most important and influential privilege?
An example of Class Privilege would be being given several hundred thousand dollars by parents who are "millionaire entrepreneurs" to start a sub par indy games studio, no questions asked.
Is your game going to see a release on Steam? Is it going to have any more polish than what people have seen, or is still going to look like it was straight ported to mobile?
Why did you call someone a sexist for trying to help you with rendering your characters better?
and why did you fish for attention on the steam forums?
Hi Brianna, the TL;DR is bolded at the bottom.
I'm an early-40s guy who is, quite frankly, tired of being bombarded with the message that women are somehow unwelcome in the technology world. Of my 13 direct coworkers in my company's IT department, 6 of them are women: our web/app manager, our UI/UX lead, one of our two graphic designers, one of our three developers, our corporate technology trainer, and my closest coworker. I'm a network administrator focusing on the internet side of things and I have a direct analogue, who is female, whose title is also network administrator and she deals mostly with the telecom side.
We're a private "old money" corporation (think energy), not some new progressive company striving to meet any ideal balance of diversity in tech. The executive leadership is the usual white man's club you might expect in such an organization. Yet women are not underrepresented in any fashion unless you consider the grunts in the oilfield. My female coworkers are in this line of work because they developed, on their own, a passion for geeky things; yet day in and day out I'm bombarded (not from them!) with the message that this isn't possible, that women can't possibly like tech, that society must bend over backwards and spend millions of dollars to create new opportunities for women in tech.
My point here is that I have years of personal experience at a decidedly non-IT company, in a decidedly "good old boy" industry, yet still, women who built upon their own passion for tech make up almost half of the IT department. They liked doing computer things, got their degrees, applied for their jobs, and were hired on merit just as the men have done.
TL;DR My own observations tell me that women are not at all underrepresented in the tech workplace. I think girls are perfectly capable of making up their own minds as to what they're interested in, and which career fields they should pursue. Do you feel the same way, or do you think that companies like Google should continue to try forcing more girls into the tech field?
Why did you pick the computer world to launch a career in journalism? You get around $3k a month from hapless dupes with a case of the feels, any tips for setting this up? What is your actual technical experiance with computers? On a scale from one to ten, how much of a sucker is the average person reading your 'journalism'?
How did you secure the capital to start Giant Spacekat? How did you do it in 3 months, and what obstacles did you face?
What you originally said and what you said in this post are two different things. Once you figure that out you'll understand the downmod.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Serious question: How do women and minorities get selectively harassed online when it is usually impossible to know their gender or race?
Blind auditions for orchestra positions are now standard. Can we not have the same for gaming and technology?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
You're completely wrong. This is a front page story about a scam artist with a victim complex and a direct link to a Patreon account so retards can give him more money.
Brianna,
When you posted the bait to try and get people to harass you on your Steam Greenlight page, why did you play but from your developer account? Was that part of your plan?
How has living the first 30 years of your life as a man shaped your ability to represent women in tech?
Well at least the mods will have an easy time filtering out the questions as the usual drivel is, unsurprisingly, posted by anon cowards.
I don't have a question, but jesus christ people grow the fuck up.
Regardless of what you believe Ms. Wu experienced, do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment?
regardless of which, supporting a scam artist is not helping your cause and will only serve to de-legitimize it.
Or mabey the body size shaming, ableism about mental health, and even classist attacks on the typical software engineer through the "neckbeard" stereotype don't help much. 10-15 years ago, this would most likely include some underhanded homophobic attack(i.e. 'question' their sexuality), and 5 years ago, some form of genderphobia would also be present.
I'm sure Wu has had plenty of horrific experiences
BAWAAAAAHAHAHAHA! You mean like that 'Death to Brianna' series of tweets that were screencapped 7 minutes later and allegedly drove him from his home? Yeah sure, not suspicious at all, he totally didn't send those tweets himself.
BTW I own a tower in Paris that I will sell you at a favorable price.
scam artist or not, I'd request you not misgender her. I'd rather not give this type the high ground on this issue. You'll also confuse the issue and drum up sympathy for people who will defend her for being trans*.
Its "offtopic". thats why. How she was born has nothing to do with unethical activity. Its a personal attack on a very hotbutton topic which will do nothing but legitimize her.
next we'll have genre fluid, such as crossover thrash.
Is what a friend of yours says in this article true?
But one of Wu's friends in the gaming industry has suggested that her story may be more complicated than she lets on--that as bad as the situation has been for Wu, she "wasn't dragged" into it. "She taunted Gamergate for weeks," this woman continued, who asked that her name be withheld. "She baited them, and then they finally came after her, which is exactly what she wanted them to do."
I do not. I'm willing to believe, the attitudes exist — as do women-only clubs, but I don't see anything particularly wrong (as in "this must be illegal!") with them. Nor do I know a person with a claim of having been persecuted over being a woman supported better, than something I can claim on the basis of being a Ukrainian expatriate.
Such claims are bogus and the laws they are based on — tyrannical. I do not believe, we've become a better country by adopting such laws — they target the symptoms (and do so poorly), while allowing various scammers (both private and governmental) to blackmail innocent employees into various "settlements".
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"I just think most of them have been brought upon herself for the purpose of garnering attention, sympathy and money" - and why presume that when it's something you can't really ever know? There's no point in projecting motive except to discredit someone from the start, which doesn't look good. She ought to be criticized on the virtue of her views and actions only.
Ween!
One steam commenter summed up the whole thing nicely:
"Say someone comes to my door and knocks on it. I open the door and it's a lady with a toaster in her hands. Before I can get anything out she yells in my face, "BUY MY TOASTER. I MADE IT MYSELF SO IF YOU DON'T BUY IT YOU HATE WOMEN!"
I look at the toaster, and it's a rather shoddy piece of work, and it doesn't even have a plug on the end of its cable.
I say, completely straight-laced. "I don't want to buy this toaster. It doesn't look very good."
The woman leaves and goes to a company that distributes toasters. She publicly declares that toasters are hard to make and entitled male toast lovers are ruining crispy bread everywhere and need to shut up and accept her new handcrafted toaster that she says wasn't even made for them.
That's you right now.
Take a deep breath and try harder next time you make a game.
Don't blame all the faults of your own product on outside sources that have nothing to do with it, and don't head libel campaigns with your friends on Twitter. You'll never get your foot in the door of the toaster factory if you talk crap about all the workers and people who buy toasters."
-KLLRFRST
Don't give Netflix any ideas. They've already given us genres like "Imaginitive Time Travel Movies from the 1980s"
Transitioning usually includes changing one's legal name. So I would assume her name is really Brianna Wu. How does it matter?
Seven minutes? Try seconds.
If you feel another individual has besmirched your reputation then I recommend unchecking 'post anonymously' in the future.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Considering that several prominent female vets of the gaming industry have came forward and dispelled the myth of the "boy's only club" (Creator of "legacy of kain" for starters) , the entire narrative is hogwash.
What are your feelings on creating memes to mock people you disagree with?
Do you think someone running with a meme you might have created is harassment?
Do you feel it's ok to make fun of autistic children to score political points?
Good luck with the rest of the questions.
Brianna, you alleged that you are the the target of an online harassment campaign, and that law enforcement has done nothing about it, and yet it has come to light that you never contacted the police in the first place.
Would you explain why you made those allegations? Is there anything you wish to say in defense of your article?
Heh. "Respectfully." Right.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Off-topic or not, I hadn't heard this claim before and am curious if it is true, but her Wikipedia bio says nothing about it and Googling her supposed former name only turns up sources of dubious veracity (that seem to be dedicated to attacking her and so might be making shit up to smear her -- not that being trans should be a smear, but I can see some people seeing it as such).
Can anyone claiming that she is trans link to some reliable source to back that up? E.g. something not connected to Gamergate (either side of it), preferably.
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
"I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
Dear Samzenpus, how to you justify click-bait crap like this when you have the discovery of new sub-atomic articles being announced? I know that this will probably get 500+ comments, but do you realize that you are driving away the really interesting people that will make slashdot sustainable in the long run?
Nobody who matters cares about Brianna Wu or GamerGate. I come here to read opinions of people who matter. Do you care about readers like me?
in light of your recent behavior on reddit that had you removed from a subreddit aligned with your own cause...
Have you ever been diagnosed with a personality disorder, and if so, which one?
Did you ever apologise to Dr. Husni for calling him a "raghead" and a "sandn*****"? If not, would you like to take the opportunity now?
Don't you wish sometimes that a person's suitability for a particular field depended on their actual skill rather than where their genitals happen to be situated?
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Except for the other side of the debate is basically based on "Personal experience" and "anecdata" , and now straw polls which are filled out by their peers instead of actual people in the industry.
Wakkity Smackkity doo.
I am a "neutral" in the Gamergate debacle, preferring to observe more than directly interact, but in one case I watched the somewhat-infamous interview between Wu and Reddit KotakuInAction mod TheHat2. In it, they discussed the points of her iOS game "Revolution 60" and game design in general. One of the questions asked there was why she decided to work with iOS first versus the popular PC platform Steam. I don't remember the exact answer, but I think it revolved around developing for a platform that more women were likely to use, being the mobile market, and maybe some development-specific answers.
My question is this: Given what you've learned about programming in iOS, would you have developed for a PC platform like Steam first and ported to mobile later? Given female trends towards mobile platforms like the Nintendo DS/3DS, would it make more sense for your studio to explore developing games there? Or was your goal all along to produce a more 3D-visual action title for mobile phones?
For context, my wife is not as big of a gamer as myself, but I find she enjoys playing a lot of mobile puzzle games. I think the mobile market has a lot of potential for bigger things, and I think having the input of the majority player base on that platform makes sense, but I often don't understand why, as a mobile developer, you would be overly concerned with "the core gamer" demographic in the console platform. It seems to me that they aren't likely to crossover into the mobile market often, so there is little reason to "attack" that demographic as we've seen a few people, including Brianna, do through the last year.
There is a breitbart article with pretty compelling evidence that you can evaluate yourself. It includes sound clips that Wu uploaded showing voice her transition.
From what I've heard from other developers, Brianna Wu isn't in the tech/games industry at all. None of the "women of GamerGate" are. They are usually indie developers or outside commentators. Women such as Jade Raymond actually work on major game projects. She directed several, but there are also women out there who work as art designers and such on major games, yet none of them are involved in GamerGate.
So my question is, Brianna, what qualifies you to speak on behalf of an industry that you are not a part of?
Why is it that women in the independent games development scene seem to be greater targets for harassment than women who work for AAA studios?
Don't you think it is disingenuous for anyone to:
(1) Troll GamerGaters at the very beginning, when they were fighting for ethics in Games' Journalism.
(2) Get b***h slapped by a torrent of angry gamers.
(3) Cry on the roof-tops that you're being harassed by "men."
(4) That "men" are scaring "women" from the industry (when you are a trans-woman btw).
(5) Claim to have received death-threats and was too afraid to live in your own home but still gave copious number of interviews from it.
(6) Eventually got around to port your 1 game and it looks like a horrible game from 1996
(7) Create a storm whereever you go on Social Media (beacause maybe you are deranged?) and blame "men" for your shortcomings.
(8) Spoil my Slashdot by showing your creepy face on HERE and ask for money!
Any thoughts?
Congratulations slashdot, you just jumped the shark for me. A front page story about a scam artist with a victim complex and a direct link to a Patreon account so people can give her more money. Time to go find another tech news site.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
When are you going to admit the feminists lied about gamer gate and it wasn't a attack at all but a justified concern about corruption in gaming news?
Who doxed you and tweeted the death threats? I would think that would be easy to track down to the perpetrator, unless s/he was really careful, which seems unlikely.
Why are you a feminist instead of a egalitarian?
Let me get this straight, Brianna - if a developer makes a female character with huge tits and butts, that means the developer is sexist...but when YOU make a female character with huge tits and butts, then its THE GAMERS that are sexist!? That makes perfect sense...said no one ever.
Maybe people are calling your characters "deformed Barbies" and "Bratz rejects" not because of sexism, but because they look like Barbie dolls left on a sidewalk in Miami in the middle of the day in August?
I noticed that women in independent development are more targeted by harassers than women who work in AAA studios. If this is the trend why do you think Indie seem to get harassed more? And have you ever received support or advice from women working at AAA studios in dealing with harassment?
Just curious, Why did you Slander Brad Wardell? StarDock
And call for a Boycott of His efforts?
I suppose this is a troll because, the unstated purpose,, is to only ask questions that let Wu promote their agenda.
They might as well just give us the list of questions they have decided will be answered, instead of playing this game of guess the questions on the list.
This person lacks the credibility to comment on any topic relevant to Slashdot's readers. I am surprised and disappointed that this "ask-me-anything" was published on Slashdot.
It's almost like the Jon Katz Afghanistan article, but with a dress.
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It would be offtopic if he weren't positioning himself as some form of feminist icon. Much like Bill Cosby's testimony about Quaaludes was deemed to be "in the public's interest," by positioning himself as a feminist of some form, "Brianna" Wu has made his gender an important point. It's a completely valid question of this particular individual.
If we were interviewing him about programming or game design (two things he knows nothing about) then it would be offtopic, but we're not. We're interviewing him as a "feminist activist."
This is just the best Slashdot comment section ever. I'm going to go get some more snacks, so please don't post any more comments until I get back.
You are welcome on my lawn.
How do you find partners? Do you stick within your industry or try to branch out more or what? Do you have suggestions for people in other industries? (Context: I'm an academic librarian and I've had limited luck with anything other than tangential industries.)
Also: not really an anonymous coward, just don't want a slashdot account. I'm @olinj on Twitter.
You hinted a bit in an episode of Rocket that you're playing with the idea of making a game for VR. Can you go into any detail on that, or talk about the future of VR gaming (if there is one)?
What are your (on paper) academic credentials in this CompSci field? And how many games have you programmed (or designed on WYSIWG package) since you started?
one of the aspects of gamergate that really bothers me is the immediate dismissal of anyone that suggests corruption is a problem is just using it as a cover for misogyny. It has led to an attitude that corruption is only a problem among liberals. Do you think that corporate sponsored politicians undermining women's health is a bigger problem than depictions of women in art? And what would you propose could be done to disassociate arguments against corruption from gamergate?
Thank you Brianna Wu, this farce of an interview attempt at pumping cash into your patreon account has finally convinced me to kick my slashdot habit once and for all. Keep driving actual women in tech like myself away. Shockingly some of us have brains and can think for ourselves.
Posting as Anonymous since I've already nuked my account (of course no option to delete it).
If a young female high school student asked you, "Should I become a game developer?" given your horrific experiences, what would you say; and is what you say different now than it would have been before your experiences surrounding GamerGate?
She ought to be criticized on the virtue of her views and actions only.
Looked to me like that's exactly what he was doing.
How much of your harassment is faked by yourself, like this infamous thread on Steam https://archive.is/t1Oxl , in order to convince people to give you money through Patreon?
How are you ever supposed to get Revolution 60 ported to PC if you spend at least 8 hours of every day on Twitter?
What is the most difficult complexity you experienced (as a team leader) when creating Revolution 60 and how did your team navigate the challenge?
I guess page views are all that matter.
It's easy to dismiss others as being a troll when they say something you don't like, but that's also disingenuous. I'm also not denying there hasn't been harassment from people who support GamerGate, but you actively threw yourself into the fray -- you chose to fight GG. I see women in the industry like Jennifer Dawe and regular gamers alike not get blindly attacked by GG because of gaming while female -- clearly there is more than just being a female gamer that causes automatic resentment. It's attitude, not being a girl gamer that's the real problem. You claimed you had it tough in Mississippi growing up, but you're white and have well off people who raised you. Do you have family living on Indian reservations with crappy land the US gov doesn't want like I do? I doubt it. You've also bragged about buying a new sport bike awhile bike, one speculated to be bought by Patreon money. Between your parents and the Internet, you're hardly in a state of being oppressed and that's why people have a negative opinion of you. The antagonizing nature of your Twitter only serves to confirm. Not saying you deserve the harsher ends of it, just that most of this drama seems self caused and you block when people call it out instead of coming to grips you're far more privileged than you try to convince others. No one cares if you were trans, no one cares if there are women in the industry and no one cares to hear you talk about your "hardships" when there are people struggling just to live paycheck to paycheck -- some living off less than a grand a month. Those people deal with real hardship. You get several grand a month from the internet while engaging in a childish war with GamerGate on Twitter.
Just wondering if you think that the vast majority of middle school boys that participate in GamerGate attacks on women gamers are starting this due to perceived peer pressure, or do you think it's a reaction to the hostility towards young women built into movies and certain game types, and is it only because they won't bathe, floss, or brush teeth that they take their anger out on adult gamer women?
Wondering, because neither my son nor I did this, and we've been gamers since middle school, but notice a lot of the GamerGate participants seem to be mostly middle schooler boys.
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Silencing debate about gender is exactly the wrong thing to do in this case. Gender politics are the tool Flynt/Wu uses to make money (hence the donation link in the article). You can't discuss Wu's scams without considering how he uses gender sympathy to exact money from outrage. The trans* community needs to come to grips with this and deal with those who use gender and manufactured outrage for financial gain, because those people will continue to delegitimize the trans* community in the eyes of the cis* community. Silencing debate is not the way to desl with that problem.
Few women can start their own game companies or publications. Any top feminist friendly companies you'd recommend to women wanting to break into tech/games/tech writing?
Hi Brianna,
No idea if this will bubble near enough to the surface for you to see it, but I'm curious how much, if any, work you and your team had to do in the "guts" of the Unreal Engine to get your game out the door, or if all of your work was done at the Unreal Script / editor level.
The sad part is your evidence is no better.
Look and I managed to point it out without pointing out that you're an idiot. Oops.
Representative Katherine Clark (D-Mass) along with the National organization of women tried to rally the house to demand better enforcement of existing cyber stalking laws. She then herself became a target for online harassment. Has anything come of the congresswoman's efforts and did she reach out to you after becoming a target herself?
I have a question: How do you feel about being one of the biggest idiots on the planet Wu? Yes, I mean this planet.
A good mix of white knight and troll questions, with one or two legitimate questions thrown in.
Good job Slashdot. There is simply no way anyone could have predicted this.
Up next: "Game developer Briana Wu harassed in Slashdot comments y misogynist posters".
It's like you're doing it on purpose.
Ms. Wu I very much respect you for everything you done for women in games but I can't help but wonder why do you not acknowledge the rumors that you are post op transexual. I do not believe acknowledging this will affect anything you have already accomplished. In fact it would mean a lot more if you were to come out as one.
When Milo Yiannopoulos made false claims about your transgender status why didn't you sue the pants off of him?
Do you think anyone in the world is a bigger victim than yourself, or do you pretty much top out on the victimhood scale?
Who was the "close friend" mentioned in a previous article about you that claimed you purposely inserted yourself into the #GamerGate controversy to gain notoriety and money?
How is the motorcycle that Cliffy B bought you running these days?
The video of you being triggered by TheRalph was probably the funniest reaction video I've ever seen in my life - your facial expression makes me laugh every time. Can you comment on how you felt at that exact moment when you realized that you and TheRalph were in the same room?
I'm with you. This is the last time I visit Slashdot. Time to migrate.
For the record, I had never heard the claim that Brianna Wu is a transwoman before today, and I have no idea if it's true or not. I have followed GamerGate only minimally and can't say I understand all the issues.
BUT, if it's true that Brianna is a transwoman, that is certainly not off-topic. It's the same as Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black, and to have suffered her whole life for being black, when she is white and grew up in a racially accepting family. If Dolezal wants to make herself look black and claim to be black, that's fine with me, but it stinks of hypocrisy for her to lie about her past, her experiences, and her identity while at the same time claiming to be a spokesperson for people with that identity!
Likewise, if Brianna Wu is a transwoman but also claims to speak towards a personal history of suffering gender prejudice and so forth, it doesn't exactly look kosher.
Great point. Let's look at actions.
In 2010, a number of fellow UMiss alums recalled their impression of the person now calling themselves Brianna Wu. This is over 4 years before Brianna Wu was publicized in public media. They didn't even know about the existence of a person named "Brianna Wu".
In it, several recount the actions of John Flynt (who now goes by Brianna Wu). John Flynt at one point came into the student paper office, and when his comic strip was rejected, blew his lid. He called one woman a "fat dyke" and screamed the epithets "raghead" and "sand n****r" at a journalism professor. The student paper took legal action against Mr. Flynt with a restraining order.
For someone who tweets 24/7 about harassment, bullying, hate, prejudice, etc, and profits handsomely from it, these actions are highly germane. Ms. Wu née Mr. Flynt has yet to apologize, explain, or atone for these actions, and it's pretty certain that if the supporters knew about these actions, people would have a significantly different impression about Ms. Wu née Mr. Flynt.
This nails the coffin shut for me. I will not waste my time on a site that bald-facedly caters to (literally PROMOTES) professional victims. I don't care if it's Reddit, Slashdot, whatever.
What is a good alternative?
All data is anecdotal.
Wu, how do you justify your claim of being a feminist when your game has females depicted as an adolescent boy might draw them, play the victim card all the time, have been caught exaggerating and outright lying so often and then hiding behind claims of sexism, etc.
Follow-up question: your male past is easily found by anyone doing a cursory search. Do you refuse to talk about it because you are afraid that others won't see you as a "real woman?" Wouldn't a real feminist embrace their trans experience to provide a more inclusive view of, and insight into, the female experience from the viewpoint of a transsexual?
note ... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Was it tough going from being a journalist and politico to becoming a hard-working developer at a legendary game and media studio like Giant Spacekat?
What engine do you develop on? DO you have an on-site rendering farm that you work directly with, or do you outsource it?
How do you find the time for public speaking with all the 60+ hour weeks that you must put into developing Giant Spacekat's massive games and interactive media library?
Are you tired of ignorant people saying your "developer" title is just a joke and that your game company is just a sad front for your real job of gender hustling?
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Wu is not a woman. and their birth name is John Flynt.
She's a self proclaimed Godzilla of feminists. All you need to do is offer her a soap box to get on and complain to an larger audience. She won't say no. She craves attention, and like people like Jesse Jackson, her 'career' hinges on there being some injustice or slight to complain about, no matter how small. The worst thing for their careers is a lack of something to get fired up about.
If you were actually a user since 1998, you'd know that the only thing new with GamerGate is the name. Slashdot has been covering GamerGate-related stories since it was created. It's not like the gaming press has ever had any sort of ethics, the change is that only recently gamers were able to band together under a single name and make some positive changes with the hilariously corrupt gaming press.
The sad reality is that the real change is that Slashdot has basically stopped covering gaming news at all. There used to be a special games-related Slashdot with its own theme, games.slashdot.org, but that's basically dead now. The most recent story prior to this was Iwata's death, and that got barely any comments. The reality is that gaming news on Slashdot is dead, and that's the only reason Slashdot can act as a "respite from the gamergate" - it doesn't cover gaming stuff really at all. (Or really any news for nerds either - SDCC just happened, and Slashdot basically completely ignored it.)
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
John Walker Flynt, Brianna Flynt, Brianna "Tuck-Job" Wu, or commonly known as Literally, Wu? is a batshit crazy "videogame developer" and former racist gay basher who underwent surgery to "become female" in order to gain success in the video game industry and lurk in girls' bathrooms. With the help of his millionaire parents' money and media connections, wife-beater husband and thousands of dollars scammed on Patreon, he's been spending his time creating a game that look like something Richard Garriott might have made 20 years ago on a budget of $20 and promoting it by making death threats against himself, getting caught, and trying to steal the spotlight from Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, literally claiming to be the most important person to GamerGate supporters who he literally believes are planning to assassinate him.
That's not why we change gender. Anyone seeking approval for a sex change on that basis would be denied. This is not to say that I approve of ms Wu's antics - to the contrary, she's been an attention whore and drama queen with dubious motives. Most of us are not like her.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Why are you wasting your time giving this dead website click-bait?
Perhaps if you actually asked a reasonable question and then she ignored it you might have a point. All you did was make a load of accusations without any evidence.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I've been reading daily since 1997, but I can't condone pandering to a professional victims and hatemonger and giving out a patreon link to fund more of this crap
Reddit was destroyed by SJWs in a matter of weeks, if Slashdot wants to follow the same route and promote safespaces after almost 20 years of being a respected destination, fine.
Any good suggestions?
It's the same as Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black
Let me make sure I've got this right. Are you saying that skin color is the same as gender?
It sounds like you're trying to imply that transgenderism isn't a real thing. You're welcome to think that if you want, but keep in mind that if you're trying to say it's not real and she isn't really a woman, all you're going to do is attract people who will defend her purely on that basis, and criticisms of her actual behavior and ethics will get pushed under the rug.
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
In the form of a question: Are there real problems faced by women in game development, and in STEM more generally, or is the playing field level now? What do you think of efforts being made by big tech companies, e.g. Intel spending $300m on increasing diversity? Is that needed and if so what would you spend it on?
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Related question: How is the criminal investigation into harassment going? Do you find law enforcement generally believes you, or do they accept the other side's claims that you ran an elaborate false flag operation against yourself? What kind of evidence is most effective, most likely to be understood and accepted? Can you recommend the best way to report criminal harassment?
Question for the GGers: If you have evidence of a false flag operation, why isn't there an on-going criminal investigation? At a minimum there seems to be some fraud, and I'm no expert but in many places wasting police time is a crime too.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Slashdot, why? The people running this site are blind and deaf. Brianna Wu is a joke and her game is a piece of trash. You're not going to increase your traffic by pandering to the very few idiots who like her.
All sarcasm aside, why even bother including this? It's a bullshit, misleading statistic designed to make people believe what you're trying to say. It's an association fallacy at its finest. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy)
No, you're just completely ignoring the report in question. The single statistic isn't as important as the sum of them. A small but significant percentage of harassing tweets proclaimed an association with GamerGate, and yet a vanishing small percentage of GamerGate supporters have actually been involved in that harassment. The implication of that is that GG as a whole is not a harassment campaign, but there are people who are trying to use it as a cover for their harassment.
Me, I'll believe that GG isn't a harassment campaign when all the harassment and doxxing in its name stops - ALL of it. Plain and simple.
Which is, of course, an unrealistic and completely impossible demand. (I actually can't remember the last time any widely-acknowledged GG supporter doxxed anybody -- care to remind me?) But please, come off anon and tell me what groups you're affiliated with who have never had any harassment committed in their name. Then we can go get somebody to make a threatening tweet under their banner, and now you're a member of a harassment campaign, too!
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
I can't parse your shitty English.
Why do you proud yourself in becoming more and more shit each passing day?
Hi, Frank.
I figured all anyone would need was one good look at that Adam's apple.
You must have forgotten the "ask Florien Mueller" episode. The parallels - attention-seeker making the mistake of believing that any publicity is good publicity. Not going to end well whether she responds or not. Schadenfreude time.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
In the interview with Mr. Pakman, you stated that you would update everyone when the results of the investigation completed. I've followed your timeline for a long time and have seen no updates related to this case. What became of the case?
to quote the FBI leak: "We are no in the business of embarrassing people"
Why not Brianna Wu? Or do you have objections to giving fools enough rope to hang themselves?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
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Thank you for signalling your progressiveness and open-mindedness. Most of humanity respectfully disagrees.
Implying that the progressive agenda in America has anything to do with "open-mindedness" is about as whackadoo as it gets.
>Can anyone claiming that she is trans link to some reliable source to back that up? E.g. something not connected to Gamergate (either side of it), preferably.
Any photo of her is proof enough, are you blind?
You mentioned one time you took apart Kinects to make an amateur 3D motion capture thingy. Can you talk a little more about that? That fascinates me.
I'm deeply skeptical of that claim. The discussion here should explain why.
Required reading for internet skeptics
>Let me make sure I've got this right. Are you saying that skin color is the same as gender?
No
But claiming a life-long injustice is only allowed if one has been picked on for it life-long. If one is a 'recent convert' to a minority, (yet claims long standing oppression), that position steals heavily on the valid suffering of others before them- and tricks the audience into thinking one has native cred. On the other hand one can be a vocal supporter and get more respect from an audience for being honest.
At this point, any woman would garner an adverse reaction as strong as the one we're seeing here.
Still, Slashdot editors know that even mentioning women brings out the bottom 10% in full force. I have little doubt they were the first to initiate contact, knowing it would drive up traffic.
Required reading for internet skeptics
> boy's club
Incredibly ironic, since briana wu aka john walker flynt is actually a man.
[citation needed on this one]
Let me make sure I've got this right.
What is the basis for saying you can choose one but not the other?
Well said. The one thing I can't stand about the modern media is they make it so fucking easy to play the victim card, that the supposed "victims" end up becoming the real bully.
Brianna Wu is the worst kind of bully, only she's so good at deception to the media that she's truly the ultimate bully.
No kidding. When I read the summary of her wonderful achievements all I could think was DUH. Is this stuff that matters? Really Slashdot?
I am sure there are plenty of other women you could interview who actually did something that matters in the tech world.
Let's get some home truths out of the way. There's no hatred towards you because of anything you've achieved, ask gamers of either gender and they'll round off (actually talented) female idols of the gaming industry.
You're a mediocre talent, a liar, a hypocrite, a shyster, an alarmist, a manipulator, a money grubbing sociopath who is cruel to her supposed friends. You thrive on bad feeling and direct your moronic fans to your Patreon. Using your privilege, you've fast tracked yourself to a position where you can lecture and misguide other women with lies, perpetuating the myth that they must play victim to get ahead.
If you take anything from this exercise in e-begging, it's this. The actual female devs in the industry know you for the horrid person you are and think you're a joke.
So, my question to you is how can you sleep at night knowing you're a deliberate tumour that's actively crippling the chances of girls becoming devs in the gaming industry, due to your money focused pontificating? You've the Midas touch of fucking shit.
Revolution 60 sucked ass, btw.
Slashdot. News for politically correct asswipes. Shit that doesn't matter.
Considering the hypersexualized models you chose for Revolution 60, what's the possibility that you're transsexual due to autogynephilia (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) ?
How the fuck can you dare to claim you represent women in tech when you are in fact genetically a male?
I don't read reddit, so I'm not always in the loop about whatever this hour's controversy is. As such, I need to ask, what is all of this even about? Can anyone explain this to me? Who is this person? Why is there so much negativity here?
I've looked through the discussion here, and all I'm seeing are an unusually high number of comments modded down to -1, a lot of talk about transsexuals, and pretty much nothing relevant to science, computing, math, or good stuff like that.
Can anyone, anyone at all, explain what the hell is going on here, and what the hell this is all about?
No need, Ralph already explained it himself:
I surreptitiously took few pictures, and decided to tweet one of them out. Now, Iâ(TM)m not a stupid man when not blind drunk, so I knew there was a chance someone would see this on Twitter. But, I did that shit anyway. Why? Well, I knew that they would look terrible for kicking me out over taking a picture of a panel speaker at a public convention. How big of a fucking baby do you have to be to kick out an adversary?
(from his blog at http://theralphretort.com/full...)
Note that the organizers asked people not to take photos. It was clearly stated, and in the events leading up to this they tweeted the rules to him twice during their conversation. It appears that's where he got the idea from, in fact.
His goal was to get kicked out by breaking the rules. That's why he "surreptitiously" took the photos, because he knew that the organizers had asked him not to. His scheme, which some people apparently fell for, was to make out he was the victim when he in fact went out of his way to be booted out.
It's their convention, they make the rules, he knew them and broke them deliberately.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I have a suggestion of a transsexual I would actually like reading an interview about in Slashdot. Sophie Wilson (ARM chip designer). I respect that work.
What I do not respect is reading about people who make their career around politically correct bullshit and produce nothing of value. This isn't news for nerds and it isn't stuff that matters.
Do you ever worry that Georgia Dow is some kind of killer robot from the future? Doesn't she seem like the type of thing that SkyNet would build in face of their failure after Terminator 3?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Oh, I'm fine with Wu showing herself for the, dare I say "questionable" kind of person she really is. It's happened before and it'll probably happen again as long as it benefits her.
But that's the thing, it's like a drug. Causes a high, she gets off on it, along with her donations. And right now for all I know, she could be trying to snort a figurative line of coke off our collective tempers. Or at the very least trying to legitimize her more notable behavior by coming off as suddenly considerate and professional to the people she loves to detest.
I would say that the only winning move is not to play, in my opinion. Not that it's worth losing sleep over.
PS: I would have also liked to read an interview with Dan Bunten but she's dead now. RIP.
I don't think she appointed herself as a leader, she just gained some notoriety because she was the target of GamerGate harassment.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Let me make sure I've got this right. Are you saying that skin color is the same as gender?
No. They are different. One is skin color and the other is gender.
It sounds like you're trying to imply that transgenderism isn't a real thing. You're welcome to think that if you want, but keep in mind that if you're trying to say it's not real and she isn't really a woman, all you're going to do is attract people who will defend her purely on that basis, and criticisms of her actual behavior and ethics will get pushed under the rug.
Not at all. The way I view it, identity is pretty much the most personal thing we have. It's maybe the only thing that is entirely self-contained within "me." I control how I present my identity to the outside world, and so do Brianna Wu and Rachel Dolezal--everybody does. I have no interest in judging whose identities are valid and whose aren't--they're identities! They just are.
My point, rather, is that if you build your public persona on being one thing, on your past experiences, etc., and that if you embark on a public campaign in which you talk about your childhood, past experiences, etc.--be prepared to come clean with the truth.
Hi Brianna. What made you decide for Unreal as your main engine for games? Which advice would you give to gamedev newbies trying to check it out now that its free? What were the main pitfalls your team had to overcome in making Revolution 60?
Uhh, it's a fucking fact that "Brianna Wu" is really John Flynt, a weirdo man who for some reason decided to get a sex change and crusade for women as if he were one.
12% of the anonymous posts in this forum which appear to lambaste Mr. Wu were actually posted by Mr. Wu.
Quick question - if his genetics are male, then how are we misgendering him?
I'm out. Enjoy your SJW echo chamber.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit...
Go watch any video with "her" in it. You should be able to tell in about five seconds.
Why does your game Rev 60 has such low user scores?
Mod up!
-- kurenai.tsubasa
Congratulations slashdot, you just jumped the shark for me. A front page story about a scam artist with a victim complex and a direct link to a Patreon account so people can give her more money. Time to go find another tech news site.
Out of all the stupid shit that gets posted on Slashdot, you're going to get your knickers in a twister over this? Really? Honestly, that says more about your intellectual dishonesty than you can possibly imagine. Regardless of your (or anyone's) opinion of Ms. Wu, a single story soliciting questions (you know, what they used to call a "dialog") is hardly the worst thing that Slashdot has ever done. If this is the line in the sand for you, then you should probably go back to the sandbox.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
That's not the problem. Idiots like you jumping to conclusions when you have no facts is the problem.
Keep your fucking mouth shut unless you have proof.
Hi Brianna. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
lol ethics! I take it you never read the infamous IRC logs then.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...
Out of information, which school of ethics so you think they belong to?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Hi Brianna. Does GSX plan to develop for virtual reality peripherals in the near / medium future?
Here's your proof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETVcInunAss
As a game designer, I assume you've spent a fair bit of time playing games. What's your favourite arcade classic, and why? Or, if you can't choose one, what's the list of your favourites.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Uhhh there isn't an investigation because it doesn't support the political narrative? Its no different than how when a black teen recently committed an armed robbery and was shot running at the cop with a loaded stolen firearm you'll get protesters saying the cop should have just stood there and "black lives matter" signs and tons of press coverage, but when Baltimore reaches triple digit body counts of blacks slaughtering blacks? It'll barely get a peep on the local news.
The reason why is simple, one lets you push a political narrative, blacks are always victims, more gun control, etc while the other? Does not. If Wu is being targeted? You can push stories on transgender issues, sexism, cyberbullying, violence in the media, you can probably get several weeks worth of angles out of that one which will also touch on political hot buttons that politicians can use one way or another...if Wu is just another narcissist hypocrite looking for attention and $$$? You won't even get 2 stories out of that one.
Ever since the birth of CNN and 24 hour news its all become about narratives and themes, see ANY of the MSM looking at both sides of gamergate? Even attempting to be objective? Of course not, because sensationalism and political narratives that result in "us VS them" sell, the other is just the facts, boring. And like it or not there really isn't any objective reporting anymore, every news org is either hard left or hard right and if you are hard left you certainly aren't gonna run a story showing a "champion of feminism" is actually a scammer, not only will that not follow the narrative but it might help "the other side" and we just can't have that.
I really wish it weren't so, because even though I'm pretty far to the left I want to be given the evidence and be allowed to make up my own mind like a big boy, but all we get today from the MSM (and sadly the feds, just look at how little was done when it comes to things which goes against the political narrative, from the fake yellowcake papers to fast & furious) is propaganda for one side or the other. All we can do as thinking adults is do as much research as possible from a variety of sources and make up our own minds.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Hi Brianna. Does GSX plan on creating physical items related to the Revolution 60 universe, like collectables, figurines, scrolls? Also kudos to whoever animated C09.
And not report the other threats to the authorities offering to arrest those responsible?
You're kind of an asshole, aren't you?
My guilty pleasure is Sophie Kinsella novels. Are companies ever going to make games with these kinds of stories?
Go ahead and keep mansplaining what it's like for women in tech. Keep telling them their experiences are invalid based on your own perceptions. I'm sure that will work out for you really well.
Where would you like to see internet culture in five years? Where do you see it actually going?
Why aren't those people being prosecuted? If your assertion that it is illegal is correct, then it would seem that large parts of the systems are in on this conspiracy and refusing to prosecute.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
For the record, I had never heard the claim that Brianna Wu is a transwoman before today, and I have no idea if it's true or not. I have followed GamerGate only minimally and can't say I understand all the issues.
BUT, if it's true that Brianna is a transwoman, that is certainly not off-topic. It's the same as Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black, and to have suffered her whole life for being black, when she is white and grew up in a racially accepting family. If Dolezal wants to make herself look black and claim to be black, that's fine with me, but it stinks of hypocrisy for her to lie about her past, her experiences, and her identity while at the same time claiming to be a spokesperson for people with that identity!
Likewise, if Brianna Wu is a transwoman but also claims to speak towards a personal history of suffering gender prejudice and so forth, it doesn't exactly look kosher.
No, fuck that noise. I'm a trans woman too, and we definitely don't experience "male privilege." Having a dick doesn't seem to stop the bile people keep spewing at women in general. It gets directed at us even moreso because people can't understand why you wouldn't WANT to be a guy, like it's superior or something.
But why is it different from Rachel Dolezal? Well, what Dolezal did is nothing short of cultural appropriation and manipulation. Blackness is a cultural and heritage thing, white people take black culture and styles all the time because they're perceived as "hip", while black people get mocked for celebrating their culture and heritage in earnest. Rachel Dolezal is just another white woman trying to profit off the exploitation of black people. Rachel Dolezal's shenanigans don't invalidate all the black trans women (who disproportionately experience discrimination) and their identities.
Meanwhile, gender variant people (or whatever you want to call the... umbrella of queerness in general) have existed for MILLENIA, around the world; unfortunately a lot of them exist in cultures in which that's not normal. There are a handful of cultures in which gender variant people are actually normalized in the gender system. The point is, not that we should take terms from those cultures (disclaimer: I'm a white american) but that human brains can wire gender separately from whatever your junk is. Like, basically, to deny the reality of gender variance as a normal variation of personal expression is pseudoscientific.
I don't want to say anything about Brianna's experiences, because I haven't lived her experiences, I've only lived mine. She seems pretty alright in general. I just REALLY wanted to kill this line of thought comparing trans women to Rachel Dolezal because it's insulting to both black people and trans people as it's just another way of telling us that we are wrong for the way we choose to exist.
Just investigate any of the claims made, you can see she loves to instigate bad behavior and then cry harassment and how she felt so unsafe she had to leave her home, even though she's available all day at her home office for media contacting her about said harassment.
Fuck Brad Wardell. He basically admitted to sexually harassing his female employees and generally being an asshole in multiple public statements.
If you really think there's no evidence of her doing this type of thing, you have not been paying any attention at all for the past year.
Question for Ms. Wu: What can women do to be believed?
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More and more developers seem to be using the existing engines (i know you used Unreal 3 for Rev 60, Unity, UbiArt, etc) which makes sense given the huge number of features they provide with little initial development cost and common tool sets/plugins used by other developers. Do you think there is much future in developers using custom engines for games (both indie and non-AAA) or do you think it will continue to become more uncommon for common genre games as you start at a larger and larger feature 'deficit' by having to redevelop the features on your custom engine, let alone porting issues, leaving only vert large/profitable houses (Naughty Dog, Insomniac, EA, etc) to be able to bear the time/$ costs?
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
Reading the comments here and the listed questions, do you think this is evidence of the failure of the Slashdot system to effectively support a community? Where can I go for a better tech commentary without the trolls?
As MRAs love to keep pointing out, men can be victims of gender prejudice too. In any case, she is a woman, and guys threatened to rape and sexual assault her, so by any measure she has a right to speak about those issues.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I read all the time about the experiences of online harassment victims. As pointed out in your Patreon, most all of this is obviously criminal activity, and it takes lots of time to document it for police. Why have I virtually never read about someone getting arrested? I've even looked around. I was sure at the height of Gamergate, a flood of news about arrests was coming, and now it seems like that's never coming.
I can only think of two cases: One was in Canada, where a very mentally ill young man, no older than 20 I think, was arrested for SWATting people repeatedly, among other things. The other was in the UK where again a very young man was arrested for threatening a politician over twitter.
Just googling "twitter arrest" brings up lots of cases where people who pulled various stunts had their anonymity removed and were arrested, but none of them for the kinds of harassment you've discussed reporting to the police. The first hit is several Huffington Post articles about it.
Is it not reported in the media? Do the police just not care, or not know how to investigate it? Are the people doing the harassment just that crafty?
Do you believe increased enforcement will reduce harassment online, and particularly if so, what needs to happen between then and now?
I am with you. This is bull shiiite!
She talks about women's issues? That's the sum total of her credentials? Are you joking right now? Why is she here?
If you represent women in game development, how come talented and respected figure like Amy Hennig and Jade Raymond have not supported you AND have stated on several occasions that the game industry is welcoming to women?
Many games allow customization of character's bodies and appearance, but these changes are usually tied to the gender of the character, which rarely allow trans and/or non-binary folks. What do you think is (or should be) the future of customizing a character's gender in games? Gender independent body customizations? Selecting custom pronouns? Or just more of the same?
Yes. Game developer Kathy Sierra was run off the Internet by harassment from GNAA / Bantown, the group of Weev, Hepkitten, Randi Harper (Selkie), and Nigger Christ / BLCKMSSH / Teridax, who are twitter friends of Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu. I wonder who could possibly be sending all that harassment to these two women right before they release their games, right when they would profit most from some gimmick to get attention from the media. It must be those other people over there who are talking about that hashtag that is no allowed to be spoken anymore
That's literally exactly what's been happening, for basically the entire time Wu has been in the spotlight.
People ask reasonable, but difficult, questions. She either ignores them entirely, or derides the asker for being sexist/misogynist/etc.
Rinse and repeat until people like GP are fed up with the BS and make their frustration known.
Criticizing and harassment are not synonymous.
You do realize she has been caught multiple times faking this sort of thing don't you. I know I know you will want proof. All I can say is no one has been arrested for those threats against her, have they? That means either she did not report them, when she says she has, or the police found no actual evidence that GGers threatened her.
In the past I was rude to you, please accept my apologies.
You are an idiot then. She/he is a scammer. It's real name is John Flynt and it's easy to find all the evidence that exposes the scam. It's not that you are skeptical, it's you are too stupid to seek the truth.
So how has living in a cave on a deserted island been for you?
Was trading your elderly upper middle class testicles worth the ensuing leftist rush to encourage your mental illness?
For pity's sake, the emperor has no clothes. Go away you awful little mouthbreathing man.
Disagreeing with Ms. Wu is not harassment.
Asking Ms. Wu hard questions is not harassment.
Informing people about Ms. Wu's potentially criminal fraud in regards to her business, her online ventures, and her faked harassment, as well as her history of using racial and homophobic epithets before her latest persona as a Third Wave Faux Feminist, is not harassment.
Criticism of Ms. Wu is not harassment.
Debate with Ms. Wu's supporters is not harassment.
NONE of the discussion here has been harassment. This is a public forum and if bringing up Ms. Wu's name causes an outcry of disgust, that is the price of being a professional victim and a "polarizing" personality on social media.
Harassment is not a catch all word meaning "someone was mean on the Internet." It is not a shield against any debate, criticism, or disagreement. Don't play into the professional victims like Ms. Wu trying to use it as such.
Tell me again how a random IRC channel is "GamerGate" again? It's not even #gamergate, instead it is 30 random people, 2 of whom became shitty ecelebs.
The comments are going to go ape shit. :)
You know, this is the chance to actually ASK HER this question and find out from the horse's mouth so to speak. Not that she is a horse or anything. She might be though, she could be a horse in disguise! Time to start a Twitter account and get the rumors flying.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
BTW I own a tower in Paris that I will sell you at a favorable price.
Do you take US dollars? How many do you want? MMMmmm donuts...
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Or Burger Heineman, an excellent programmer and person who has accomplished a shitload in the gaming industry.
MULE was one of the best games ever. Really there is a Q and A I would of loved.
How do you manage to pack the game logic and graphics into an 8k cart ?
Are there any triicks you have to use in getting the 6502 a barely 8 bit processor to handle the program ?
Does this crimp your work ?
This whole topic reminds me of a line from mule
"Your investment in artificial stupidity has paid off"
In my experience most people are supportive of transsexual, just not those who are lying assholes.
note ... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality. Iran, for instance, punishes homosexuality but performs a huge number of transexual surgeries every year. Being trans is seen as being preferable to being gay.
In the US, even Rick Santorum, poster child of the (IMHO) nutbag religious conservatives, said that if Bruce Jenner said he was a woman, then she was a woman. Santorum has been infamous for his idiotic statements on homosexuality (agree or disagree on state-recognized gay marriage, Santorum is a fool).
Strange world we live in.
Dome projectors for planetariums are interesting, but I'm more interested in figuring out what the heck is going on here at Slashdot today!
I don't read reddit, so I'm not always in the loop about whatever this hour's controversy is. As such, I need to ask, what is all of this even about? Can anyone explain this to me? Who is this person? Why is there so much negativity here?
I've looked through the discussion here, and all I'm seeing are an unusually high number of comments modded down to -1, a lot of talk about transsexuals, and pretty much nothing relevant to science, computing, math, or good stuff like that.
Can anyone, anyone at all, explain what the hell is going on here, and what the hell this is all about?
This person is a liar, an agitator and generally disreputable. Slashdot is worse off for hosting her and providing a platform for her to spew her lies, Twitter is already quite sufficient. Paying attention to the faux controversy devalues the Interviews section of this site.
I see no replies from Brianna Wu. Is xe going under an unrecognizable name or did xe just not answer any questions?
Additionally, what made you think that we, a critical and generally logical group of people, at Slashdot would actually help you do what you do? I hate to sound like a /b/tard but we are not your personal army. We do not care what you do, what you wear, who you sleep with, and what you identify as. Slashdot has been, and will be, a place filled with gay and trans people but we are not your personal army. We care about what you accomplish, technically, and your gender or politics is irrelevant.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You would *of* loved? What the fuck does that even mean?
Why? You ask questions about things you don't know. It's well known that Wu is a man, no need to ask.
You think jade raymond would get negative responses saying she faked her harassment?
Go ahead and keep mansplaining
You go girl! Leave behind your legaSHE!
One more question. I'd almost forgotten.
I think it was Anita Sarkeesian who made the determination, but do you have any information about why, exactly, The Fine Young Capitalists were determined to be transphobic?
I mean, I get the /b/ connection, but iirc that was only after they were determined to be transphobic. Is there a deeper reason? I'll appreciate your insight.
Thanks,
-- kurenai.tsubasa
No harm, no foul. It's only by (sometimes vigorous) debate that we can come to a better understanding on controversial topics.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
No, fuck you, she's Brianna Wu. She is a woman.
a weirdo man who for some reason decided to get a sex change and crusade for women as if he were one.
I am hoping she will answer my questions as regards the nature of her feminism and transwoman feminism in general. I can't help but to feel I'm missing something here. Maybe I'm too used to the Amazon ways.
-- kurenai.tsubasa
To be fair some SJW claim that the entirety of STEM is part of a misogynistic conspiracy. You really should not make fun of someones tin hat when yours is cutting off the blood flow.
I second this. We need to honor strong and wise trans women.
-- kurenai.tsubasa
Captcha: electron
Correction: Randi Harper is Sektie, not Selkie.
Slashdot may not let me post this for two hours.
Were you born with the capacity to get white knights to defend you against imaginary threats and criticism or do you have to work on your art daily?
Go ahead and keep pretending everyone doesn't bend over backwards to accommodate women and talk about their problems, and yet, the percentage of Ellen choosing to study comp sci has only dropped since the mid 80s, which is when western colleges reached gender parity. Despite a recent study showing a 2 to 1 preference for women in STEM in academia. Despite single women earning more out of college and having lower unemployment.
Stats I'm sure you know, considering you're so well informed on the topic, and aren't at all just doing it out of a misplaced sense of chivalry, programmed in from birth.
Who's taking about harassment? I'm clearly talking exclusively about the wacky claim made by the AC inexplicably modded +5, which seems to only be supported by a few crazy fringe sites.
By analogy, the AC is claiming we faked the moon landings, and you're talking about monuments on Mars.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Oh boy probably one of my favorite tweets and was quoted directly to her feed...by her. Funny how there was never any investigation about it right? Never mind they've been caught attempting to victimize themselves, or lie about pretty much anything. Not even hitting the tip of the iceberg here.
Om, nomnomnom...
OK, since everyone else seems to be too chickenshit to ask: Ms Wu, are you a transgender? Could you clarify for us about your sexual identity?
Heh. CAPTCHA: honest.
Were you always this handsome?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
He can wear frilly dresses and cut out all of the parts of his body that he wants, it still doesn't change the fact that he has XY chromosomes. In other words: It's a man baby!
However, that's not even what I have a problem with. I have a problem with him pretending to be a woman and thinking he knows the plight of actual women. That just cheapens and harms the work that real women do towards equality.
It's a conspiracy!
It must be the lizard women in the hollow earth, who control the shadow government, keeping them from facing prosecution for the egregious crimes through an advanced and comprehensive cover-up by the Builderbergs and the Freemasons.
Required reading for internet skeptics
First, you have no idea what her genetics are unless you've run a DNA test on her. Second, contrary to what you learned in middle school, there are more chromosome configurations than just XX and XY, and those are not the sole factors that control what sort of genitalia you have. Third, your physical anatomy determines your sex, while your gender is what sex you mentally identify as. They match up for most people, but not for a small minority of people. That's what we call being transgender.
Did you read the article?
Discussion logs, however, suggest that #notyourshield didn't begin as a broad movement but was a campaign manufactured and orchestrated by 4chan users via sockpuppet Twitter accounts. And, according to screenshots recently released by Quinn, so was the original #GamerGate.
"But seriously, I think we're doing pretty good on the #GamerGate front," wrote user OperationDunk in a "quinnspiracy" IRC channel. "Lot of support, and a ton of people are picking up the self-chastising when people start getting insulting. It took a few days of 4-5 of us doing it but it's taking off."
Can anyone explain how the second paragraph proves the claims of the first? Yes, it shows that 4channers were part of the hashtag. That's...not exactly explosive news. But how does it show it was 'manufactured' and orchestrated via sock puppets?
For that matter, how does this (context that was scrubbed out from the screenshot in the article) prove that NYS is fake and full of sockpuppets? If you want to say that GG/NYS started from 4chan, and that's bad...well, sure. That's a pretty shitty argument, but sure. But the screenshot and the quoted post do not support the argument that NYS is fake/sockpuppets.
Also, somehow, the person who coined the hashtag gamergate only got involved after it spread around twitter for a while? Mmmm, journalism. Taste the fact-checking.
Oh hey! How you doing, Helen Keller?
Palin is still getting shit-talked about on witter. This must mean Democrats are sexist.
You recently ran a successful campaign to get your game approved on Steam's greenlight. What approaches did you use to get your game ranked high enough to be greenlit. What do you feel had the biggest impact in getting the numbers? What suggestions do you have for other Indie Game Developers who want to get their games approved on Steam's greenlight system?
Been coming here long before any chans, half or otherwise but I would be lying if I wasn't pissed when I seen this post.
What does Brianna "blew 200k" Wu have to do with anything on slashdot? GG aside, the only news that would be appropriate is the horrible animation that was spawned from the last failed company ran by Wu. But we get a patronbux ad for Wu like its some sort of tech news breaking event.
"Company is run into the ground and the previous owner starts a new one, and gets poor saps to shell out more money for yet another (soon to be) failed company."
You have lost a long time ad revenue generator, this im sure hurts as that is all we have become.
What are your own thoughts about the sexist manner in which you were banned from /r/gamerghazi? Is the misogynistic toxicity of that community reflective of the anti-gamergate faction?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
At this point, any woman would garner an adverse reaction as strong as the one we're seeing here.
Why do you think that? The question gallery for other interviewees such as Rachel Sussman and Pam Fletcher were far more civil, even when the subject of gender came up -- and there were far more technical questions that weren't gender-related at all.
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
I find your comment insulting and degrading. Just because I read slashdot does not make me some pathetic victim of marketing that can get readily abused and sucked into scams. In fact in my time on slashdot I find the exact opposite to be generally true, that slashdot readers tend to be less manipulable via marketing techniques and routinely challenge and discuss many stories put up.
So the question I assume you want to ask, beyond insulting slash dot readers as be gullible idiots, is "How appropriate do you think the, patreon campaign is and if you really are striving in the public interest, shouldn't you, just like so many others do it without the desire for personal fiscal reward and notoriety". Just because so many ex-politicians get involved in the public speaking for profits campaign, does not mean everyone else should. In fact I am deeply suspicious about those politicians speaking fees and who is donating the money to pay for it. How carefully are the donations to those charity organisations being investigated because I am really suspicious that politicians are withdrawing bribe money out of tax haven bank accounts and sic donating that money to charities to pay themselves ex-politician to speak (laundering the money via a charity).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
You mean like how she claimed she was threatened and had to leave her home out of fear, only to do the video interview in the home she claimed she left?
That would be the most interesting of all, since Dan eventually regretted it.
We would get to see essentially all perspectives at once. Damn it, Dan. Couldn't you have just become a shrimper instead?
Also I wish Kat had failed at her suicide because people only seem to discuss the suicide rates after-the-fact. It'd be nice to hear from someone who tried what they were thinking as they did so, and what helped them recover later. We have some massive gaps in our knowledge of actual trans issues, even amongst the community. (one reason why the rates would be so high I suppose. Even amongst our peers, we don't feel totally accepted)
No amount of laws against whatever flavour term of bullying is trending this week will stop it. We need to custom-tailor every incidence, and go further into the individual.
More historical precedence for accepting a 'third gender' or 'possession of another spirit' than the exclusively gay, even if one's culture did not have a functional term for it, I'd wager.
It's only recently since the industrial era gay-exclusive became a thing that was organised. Prior to that gay men put up with the sham of marrying a woman and having children, but having a boyfriend on the side, in order to 'perform their duty to their nation.' There's a view that trans people are somewhat 'broken' in a forgivable mental way, and to be pitied (or occasionally, touched by a deity), while gay men are selfishly refusing to assist their country. Even if they actually ARE at the time, such as Turing. And it doesn't help that most openly gay leaders of the past who are written of (Elagabalus, Edward II) were utter bastards or terrible leaders. (which is actually a chicken and egg kind of thing, as they were able to be openly gay and taunt the moralities of the day because they were born complete assholes, or were already condemed to be hated so why give a flyin' hoot)
Also a stigma against exclusively gay men is they are effete bottoms. Finland and Scandinavia for example in their pre-christian periods. And combining those two points, the portrayal of young Edward in the Braveheart movie.
Two things we need to work on to fix this might be: Finding and writing more about exclusively gay history leaders and how they were perceived at the start of their reign and at the end, and finding exclusively gay masculine men, so as to normalise such a thing to the public.
Why are you suck a dishonest lying sack of shit?
The most important and/or productive people most certainly haven't. Carol Bartz, Amy Hennig, Roberta Williams, Christina Oppermann, Georgina Bensley, Gabrielle Toledano, to name a few. (The sexism Bartz experienced came from the business&manufacturing world instead, thanks Jack Ma!)
As I saw one hong kong techie/entrepreneur put it to Qwiboo when he was whining about Steam's refund policy
"Maybe people just don't like you because you're shit at what you do but think otherwise."
Modded up because in the sea of bait, this is probably the most balanced question I'm reading.
Rules can't supercede regulative authority.
The convention is public. The FCC has already made multiple rulings that whatever can enter your camera (since your eye is one) is permissible to be recorded. Your cover for Brianna makes zero sense in the face of regulative authority. It doesn't matter if he broke the rules, because the rule violates government regulations and is therefore unenforcable.
Same way you can decrypt police transmissions in your own home, front yard, or back yard. Same way you could re-transmit them in the clear on another channel (as long as you don't violate transmission power/channel regulation.)
If it enters your property, you are free to do with those photons or radio waves as you damn well please. No pictures means no video, either, since a video is multiple pictures strung together, but I saw plenty of fucking video cameras there.
You have zero standing, here.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
You still represent a hate group. The LGBTP community will never tolerate your bigotry.
They're not making him seem like the victim, Brianna made herself look like a baby. Big difference. Which was Ralph's entire point, and guess what? He succeeded.
Also, just because event owners can make whatever rules they have doesn't mean they're not stupid. This is especially true of those who actually take those dumb rules seriously, or to use them to their advantage. At the least, it makes you seem like an overly sensitive cry baby.
Nice fluffy question.
INB4 It is good start, but far from enough. We need to do more for women. Did I mention it is for women. Think of the helpless women. Recite mantra - misogyny..diversity..feminism.
She wants people to be mean to her. Her career is a professional victim. She'll either now refuse to answer the questions, or give sideways talk about hatred, misogyny, etc. Then she'll point to this as more "harassment" of her and use that to get in the news and get more donations.
She hasn't been in the new much, if at all, lately and her game on Steam is a flop before ever launching because it had to compete against real quality games. So shit like this is how she'll stir up sympathy and keep it going.
The worst thing that could have happened would be nothing but a bunch of nice questions, or no questions at all. She wanted combative questions because she can spin it as "abuse".
Your Patreon post states "So, I waste hours documenting this for law enforcement."
Can you enumerate the law enforcement reports you've made? Columbus District Attorney said they had no complaint, and you apparently followed up that it was a communication error.
Given the penalties for filing false reports, have you actually filed a report? Please include jurisdiction and date.
Oh bs your posts in this thread outs the lie
none of them have experienced anything even remotely akin to a 'boys club'.
How do you know? Have you asked them? Or are you just putting words in their mouths?
... that Wu then proceeds to claim to be entitled to speak on behalf of ALL women IS. That all is a red-herring anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Brianna Wu. Nothing here that can't be independently verified - http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... I really thought this place knew better than to allow professional propagandists and pan-handlers a stage and a microphone.
smilies are for reetards
Well, Renee James did get fired the day after I went to the US Attorneys office and the FBI to investigate her for the hiring quotas and connection to John Kitzhaber
Similarly http://uomatters.com/2014/05/bonine-goes-to-asuo-and-the-students-vote-to-help-revise-student-conduct-code.html#comment-71524
First, you have no idea what her genetics are unless you've run a DNA test on her.
Him
Second, contrary to what you learned in middle school, there are more chromosome configurations than just XX and XY
Only if you're a mutant. Normal, healthy females are XX and normal healthy males are XY.
those are not the sole factors that control what sort of genitalia you have
For a normal, healthy human being, it is.
Third, your physical anatomy determines your sex, while your gender is what sex you mentally identify as.
Wrong. Gender is the same thing as sex.
They match up for most people, but not for a small minority of people.
Some people have mental problems. That doesn't mean I'm going to accept their make-believe world for actual reality.
That's what we call being transgender.
Yeah right. Let's see if he would be admitted into a women's event at the Olympics.
LOL, narcc, you're trying to white knight a dude in "distress". I'll accept that as tacit admission that you are gay...not that there's anything wrong with that.
Better to be an asshole than a whole ass, like you.
lol
Why not Brianna Wu? Or do you have objections to giving fools enough rope to hang themselves?
So, can we not all agree this 'story' is flamebait?
Have you ever produced anything of note, notability commensurate with your celebrity status? Have you ever demonstrated any technical ability?
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
As MRAs love to keep pointing out, men can be victims of gender prejudice too. In any case, she is a woman, and guys threatened to rape and sexual assault her, so by any measure she has a right to speak about those issues.
Guys can threaten to rape and sexual assault him/her no matter if she's a man/woman or transwoman. Seems the MRAs may be right on that one.
Who's taking about harassment? I'm clearly talking exclusively about the wacky claim made by the AC inexplicably modded +5, which seems to only be supported by a few crazy fringe sites.
By analogy, the AC is claiming we faked the moon landings, and you're talking about monuments on Mars.
And I was pointing out that your being skeptical of her faking her harassment is doubtful due to the comments in here doesn't mesh, as I haven't seen any harassment going on. Perhaps I jumped the gun.
It might also to have a bit of background: Ms. Wu specializes in antagonizing people, especially over social media, and then crying harassment whenever anyone takes the bait. She has been doing this for as long as I've been aware of her.
Given that this is the internet and it's trivial to make a twitter account, this usually invariably results in Ms. Wu getting some troll upset with her who will attempt to hurt her feelings based on any number of perceived weaknesses - doing so is not sexism. Indeed it would be the very definition of sexism to put on kid gloves just because of Wu's gender.
Ms. Wu has also admitted to creating twitter accounts to troll herself with, and some of the screenshots she has taken of this harassment are suspect -- for example, taking a screenshot within seconds of a tweet being posted, which is unlikely unless you are aware the tweet is about to be posted.
She then complains about this harassment publicly, links to her patreon page, and goes back to antagonizing people online. Pity farming or professional victimhood in a nuthsell. Granted, Ms. Wu is hardly alone, several of these fake feminist trolls have infested the Third Wave Feminism movement as of late, and are pushing a narrative of women being poor widdle fragile things that must be coddled and protected at all times because they're just so fragile.
Asking Ms. Wu hard questions is not harassment.
It is when the question is "what mental illness do you have?"
Informing people about Ms. Wu's potentially criminal fraud in regards to her business, her online ventures, and her faked harassment, as well as her history of using racial and homophobic epithets before her latest persona as a Third Wave Faux Feminist, is not harassment.
Conspiracy theories and unfounded accusations repeated over and over again in an attempt to disrupt a person's life is harassment. If you have evidence of criminal activity or racist/homophobic behaviour then the correct action is to report it to the police, not go for internet mob vigilante justice.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Your first image is too small to read. The second one... Well, if it is real then I despair at the poor literacy level in the prosecutor's office, but that issue has been dealt with anyway. There was a mistake made by Wu's staff when reporting the incidence, since corrected. Try emailing them again.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Just one word: Thanks.
Can Brad Wardell explain over 5 million dollars in unpaid contractor work? Oh.. wait.. guess he's not gonna talk about that!
To be absolutely clear, the convention place is not a public place. It is a private establishment, hired out to the conference organizers. The organizers can set whatever rules they like within their private conference hall, unless those limits are discriminatory.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
It's cute you think gamergate has anything to do with journalism. Cute and horrifying.
It means his education was sub-par, which would explain the fountain of shit which frequently spews from his mouth.
You are a pathetic human being. Wow.
Really? Cause it sure shows up easily on a 29" monitor. And of course you can't forget the other stuff either. I'm sure someone will go hurdurdur breitbart because they have an ideological bias.
Om, nomnomnom...
Wu, does it bother you when you are being interviewed or praised that, more often than not, it has to do with receiving harassment rather then the projects you've worked on?
I haven't heard a well known interview in which your games were discussed any where nears as much as your harassment.
Don't you find that you are entirely too focused on drawing attention to the dissenting voices rather than drawing attention to our products?
Have you cut off your penis yet or does your husband like it when you fuck him up his ass by a below average sized dick?
Captcha: degrade, sounds about right
Look who's talking. You're afraid of facts and truth. You'd rather retreat into fantasy land where everything is exactly as you want it to be. I acknowledge that there are people who have different sexual preferences and transgendered people while you sweep them under the rug as if nothing had happened.
Explain to me how a trans woman, who converted not all that long ago, has any right to speak for actual women. It's especially bad because of the way it's being done with all of the "pity me" and "I'm such a victim" crap. It shits all over everything real women have done and sacrificed to come as fas as they have in a male dominated society.
If I'm pathetic, then you are absolutely worthless and therefore beneath my contempt.
Considering that several prominent female vets of the gaming industry have came forward and dispelled the myth of the "boy's only club" (Creator of "legacy of kain" for starters) , the entire narrative is hogwash.
Finding a few examples of women doing well in the gaming industry does not prove it is not sexist, any more than Barack Obama being president proves there is no racism in the US.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Okay, now I can actually read it (the image you posted earlier was tiny) it's obvious from the tag line that she was just curating a list of idiots who jumped at the bait.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Use facts that can be proven. Leave faith to religions.
Women are not anymore or less "believed" or "not believed" than men. Humans in general are believed when they are using proven or provable facts. They are also "believed" when they build credibility based on a history of using such facts and truths in their discourse. This particular human being has not been truthful, thus her credibility is in the pits.
This has no link to gender. It's not about gender. People that make it about gender want to shield a specific class of citizen from criticism.
The better question is : why should women be about to lie and distort the truth and not be criticized for it ? Answer that, Mr. Internet Feminist.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Conspiracy theories and unfounded accusations repeated over and over again in an attempt to disrupt a person's life is harassment.
Like calling large swats of people "Misogynists" because they disagree with women ? Because that's an unfounded accusation levied way to easily these days and has disrupted the life of many people for the only crime of not trusting a woman's or male feminist's words without proof.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Okay, now I can actually read it (the image you posted earlier was tiny) it's obvious from the tag line that she was just curating a list of idiots who jumped at the bait.
Yeah, sure. It's not that they're mentally unbalanced or anything right? That they fish for attention, and have a martyr and victim complex. It's nothing like trying to blame GG for 'sarin gas' but in truth it was a anti-GG person who said it either right?
Om, nomnomnom...
Brad Wardell himself admitted he's sexually inappropriate and that people he has allegedly harassed would feel harassed by him. So why are you mad? Do you usually go out of your way to defend the aggressor?
Well, it's entirely possible that the woman he called a fat dyke was indeed a fat dyke. People fitting that description have certainly been known to participate in campus newspapers.
What I want to know is why nobody's calling out Flynt's affectation of the name "Wu". "Wu" is an honorable Chinese name borne by millions of decent people who aren't attention-whoring whack jobs, and this white boy is appropriating Chinese culture like a privileged shitlord!
What fiscal advice would you give developers that don't have the privilege of being funded by millionaire parents?
>For the record, I had never heard the claim that Brianna Wu is a transwoman before today, and I have no idea if it's true or not. I have followed GamerGate only minimally and can't say I understand all the issues.
She is, but her trans status, like any "status" that defines a person, has nothing to do with them being a liar, playing the victim, and profiting off of these lies and victimization. I'm sure Brianna receives a ton of hate for being trans, which is terrible, but really has nothing to do with her otherwise manipulative actions.
I wish that certain pro-gamergaters (I somewhat consider myself a supporter) would remove the transhate and harassment from what otherwise is an attempt to clean up gaming journalism, but like any headless cause, there are a multitude of opinions that spew forth, and some people play dirtier than others. All the harassment leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but the cause is just. I've just never been a "ends justify the means" kind of guy.
>it's pretty certain that if the supporters knew about these actions, people would have a significantly different impression about Ms. Wu
Not likely.
They ignored Randi Harper's doxxing: "she probably had a good reason" was the excuse the SJWs gave.
No bad tactics, only bad targets.
> any woman would garner an adverse reaction as strong as the one we're seeing here.
Oh fuck off you disingenuous shit, go parrot your narrative somewhere else.
Oh look, it's our regular reminder that MRAs are bad bad bad without any evidence asserting this.
", I just think most of them have been brought upon herself for the purpose of garnering attention, sympathy and money"
A coworker of hers has confirmed this
Why is Slashdot favouring devotees of an ideology that refutes science, evidence, reason, facts and logic in favour of feelings, values and experiences? Isn't the underlying foundation of postmodernism and identity politics antithetical to the tech and science backgrounds of the Slashdot readership?
They oppose free speech, democracy, they reject reality, they are authoritarian, their principle methods of activism; privilege theory, call outs, safe spaces, social media shaming and mobbing are regressive, divisive and are indirect opposition to the values that bind society.
It also has to be said, Brianna is the very epitome of trust fund feminism. This is a 1%er claiming victim hood and oppression where none is present.
Third wave feminism and their application of identity politics are simply the bourgeoisie oppressing the proletariat. The ruling elite are using their idle children to place themselves in the media and in popular culture, and invented new theories placing themselves above those traditionally oppressed, the poor, working class, minorities etc.
This is why a millionaire like Wu can claim a poverty stricken, unemployable white male destined for an early grave is "privileged" and oppresses her.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality.
Strange world we live in
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
On several occasions, during online discourse and in recordings of live speaking engagements, I have seen you accuse people you do not know of "speaking from privilege". My question to you, as someone born to a wealthy family who was given $200 000 to start your own business at the age of twenty, is "What makes you think you are in a position to accuse others of being privileged?"
"The organizers can set whatever rules they like within their private conference hall"
The FCC said fuck no to that as well. See the wifi jamming lawsuit against both public and private establishments.
FCC/government regulations take precedence. This is basic fucking contract law. What is in that contract may not supercede any regulation or law in place.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The only reference to this event I can find is the Lolcow Wiki, hardly a reliable source of information. It appears to be fabricated.
Would you care to provide solid evidence, or withdraw your accusation?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Wilson described herself as a feminist and has spoken in interviews about women's difficulties in tech. She would be ripped to shreds by the MRAs just like other women who have done the same.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
(Actually most of them don't, but yeah, a small number of... uh, newcomers do.)
"Misgender" is a verb coopted by the perennially offended to mean the opposite of it's definition in reality.
This is a person born male - to call them female is truly misgendering them, despite what their mental disease and the politically correct authoritarian left demands.
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
That's not true at all. Caitlyn Jenner is dating a woman. She is both a transwoman and a lesbian.
More to the point, if religion claims that you are created in God's image and also proscribes a particular way to live (e.g. as a heterosexual even if you experience homosexual urges), why is it ok for you to ignore homosexual desires but embrace a desire to change your body and gender. Both are doing things that your body as constructed by God wasn't originally intended for.
Like I said, I don't get it.
Hah, that's hilarious. "Curating a list of idiots who jumped at the bait." That's rich.
Do you, out of curiosity, have any connection to Brianna Wu (or anyone else directly involved in GamerGate?). I'm asking because you seem to be taking these slashdot threads really personally, and it seems a bit suspicious.
Time to go find another tech news site.
I've floated this idea multiple places but I think that /.ers could actually pull it off. It's a bit scattered, and if anyone would like to discuss this further respond here. I really want /.ers opinion on this...
Can we go back to a Unix philosophy for online discussion?
Nothing was wrong with Usenet for discussion, it was distributed, scaled well, worked well on low CPU and low bandwidth machines. It just needed a better moderation system on top of it. Nothing was wrong with IRC for chat, it was distributed, scaled well, worked well on low CPU and low bandwidth machines.
They just needed moderation and better interfaces. IrcCloud is attempting to make IRC available for the 'mass public' on modern devices and HTML5. Why isn't the same approach being taken to Usenet?
While trying to chat with 5-10 people on Facebook my machine will grind to a halt. Even slower if I have it open in multiple tabs Meanwhile irssi runs perfectly fine on a RaspPi even with dozens of channels and hundreds of users.
Can a group sit down and make a RFC for moderation?. Include all the types of moderation so people can setup their own subreddit/newsgroups anyway they want. If people want a 'free for all' anyone gets to vote (Reddit), that's fine. But understand that with certain types of discussion it goes to shit. If people want a limited moderation (Slashdot), also allow that. Slashdot has some distinct advantages in that you can't really bandwagon like you can on Reddit because not everyone has mod points and not everyone has mod points at the same time. I've floated the idea of a "Coin" that could be used for moderation. "Slashdot2.0" hands out expiring moderation coins
Publish it as a spec and let other people figure out the implementation. You could have a completely integrated stack like Slashdot and Reddit but you could also distribute it. The discussion (usenet) is hosted on one server and the moderation is on another. I would even pay money to 'subscribe' to the moderation server that had all the slashdotters but not all of the redditors. I liked the taxonomy of "Funny" vs "Insightful". With the exact same news story you could have the exact same comments but displayed completely different for the audience.
This way you could host it in any form you wanted. You could spin up an EC2 instance and host a .onion only chat/discussion/moderation server for people that need it in places where the government tries to limit it. But it'll also help to limit being DDOS'd like Voat's new servers are as well as all the *chan servers.
And for the love of god, make it support unicode.
Slashdot is dead. Reddit is dying. We've all seen that corporations running discussions always turn to shit. Surely there has to be someone on /. that can at least help me hash out this idea. Even if I have to implement it first in Python before someone that knows more than me can do it in C better and faster.
Wu née M
It's 2015. I can copy and paste Emojis on facebook and Reddit and slashdot can't support character sets beyond American English? Come on.
Are you willing to take a DNA test in front of a neutral party to prove that you are actually a woman?
She was caught red-handed on steam when her game was being greenlit. She sent a hate note to herself, but forgot to switch out of her developer account.
I would think that Jenner is an outliner,
What repulses conservatives is the fact of someone not being hetero normative. As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
If a gay person wants to be "cured" i.e. adopt an hetero normative identity he will be accepted and congratulated. I know, it is not the same, but the common thing here is being hetero normative.
Some trans persons could pass as a perfectly *normal* person, regarding their sexual behavior, in the eyes of other people.
Do you think games like Duke Nukem Forever are sexist?
In fact, I was going to ask...
What's with the restraining order on you from your former place of work?
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
I would think that Jenner is an outliner,
... As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
I really think you are way out of line here. Of the relatively few trans people I can think of.
Burger Heineman, a transwoman, is married to a woman. There's actually another programmer I remember--and I can't for thel ife of me remember her name, or find her page via google--who ported a lot of games to Mac over the years (and worked at one of the porting companies) who transitioned quite awhile ago and also identified as a lesbian.
Here's an article for you: http://mic.com/articles/74169/trans-women-can-be-lesbians-too
http://gamergate.community/t/b...
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
"Why do you believe you matter?"
No?
"You obsess over gamergate so much, do you masturbate to it?"
Right on. I don't care what she/he was/is on the gender front. I do care about being manipulated and lied to.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Yep. Brianna Wu is a vicious, bullying, lying, doxing, harassing scam-artist that has been riding the wave of manufactured victim-hood at the expense of geeks for a year, now. Even her fellow SJWs have grown tired of her bullshit (they even exiled her from mod of /r/gamerghazi on reddit - the anti-gamer-gate sub-reddit). She has been milking every incident she can to keep herself in front of her fellow attention-milking pseudo-victims. Again, her fellow SJWs have also noted this and grown tired of her shit. You can see their back and forths on twitter.
And on top of all this, Slashdot links to her fucking patreon? Just awhile ago, she was making something like $14,000 USD per month from her patreon. She wasn't *doing* anything . . . she just was a professional instigator. That was about it. Apparently, some caught on and now she's back down to around $4,000/mo form her Patreon.
And again, Slashdot links to it? You fucking pathetic shills. And on top of *that*, giving a podium to someone who has shit on geeks, shit on gamers, and (like the rest of her ilk who are the new puritans), shit on gaming.
What's next? Giving the pulpit to Randi Harper aka @freebsdgirl aka "go fucking die in a fire" aka "anti-harassment organization that harasses people"?
I've been with Slashdot since it was Chips and Dip. It has been just about twenty years. I have supported Slashdot financially. Even in the face of competition that has grown with the internet, unlike Slashdot which can't find its way with a trunk-full of flashlights.
I'm done. I'm fucking done. Nothing has more clearly illustrated how out of touch Slashdot is with its audience and how misinformed and misinforming they are.
Audios.
They could have interviewed countless women who are actually actively making games in the industry, including Jade Raymond, who is now heading a whole new studio for EA that was just announced this week. Or any of the countless indie developers who are talented enough to make games people are interested in, instead of children of rich parents who founded a studio with $200k from their parents and then spend their time making a shitty sexist (toward females) mobile game that nobody wanted while rallying against privilege. I mean, you could even narrow it down to transgender people in game development (Brianna Wu is a TERRIBLE representative for transgender geeks).
Speaking to Brianna Wu is like giving a platform to Depak Chopra about medicine or Alex Jones about politics. Sure, they are tangentially related to the topics, but only in a fucking batshit insane sort of way.
Brianna Wu has no high ground when it comes to moralizing about transgender issues. Brianna was even banned from a transgender support forum for her shitty attitude towards fellow transgender people:
https://archive.is/N8sCy
I have nothing against transgender persons. I don't have anything against anyone who lives how and as who they want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, for that matter. I've worked with transgender people, I regularly talk to transgender people, and its about as controversial or unusual an issue as *gasp* working with or knowing *gasp* gay people.
Brianna Wu is a hypocrite. On everything from sexism, to harassment and doxing (which she has committed plenty of), to transgender issues.
Fiction, none fiction, doesn't matter. I was looking for something new to read.
Here you go! Forum of Ole Miss alums talking about her:
http://nafoom.yuku.com/sreply/366428/Keeping-campus-legends-theme-Does-remember-Bluejean
http://nafoom.yuku.com/topic/31983#.VaaUF7X8AXE
Specific post containing that info from 2010.
http://nafoom.yuku.com/reply/235985/Keeping-campus-legends-theme-Does-remember-Bluejean-Ba#reply-235985
What made your studio choose the Unreal engine over other engines?
Who inspires you most?
It isn't a claim. It's just a known fact, the same way it is a known and acknowledged fact that this poor disadvantaged woman comes from a wealthy family that gave her $200,000 to found her game studio (and that doesn't stop her from attacking everyone else in the world for being "privileged").
That in and of itself is not a problem. There are a *lot* of transgender people in the tech and gaming world, both. For the most part, people are totally chill about it.
However, as much as I support transgender issues, I do have a bit of a dissociative problem trying to reconcile someone who was a man most of their life suddenly taking on the mantle of "oppressed woman representing the world of oppressed womanhood" the moment they legally change their gender. Brianna Wu isn't the first to speak on behalf of women in tech and gaming, as such, either. There is Anna Anthropy, for example.
And when I say that transgender people in gaming and tech are a somewhat common thing, I don't just mean today. I mean, it has always been the case. There are plenty, going even as far back as the 80s (Rebecca Heineman, for example).
Of course, it is popular today, to say that gender is a "social construct" and that gender is what you say it is. Even if you allow this grammatical usage, that doesn't change the fact that someone who has not been a female their entire life can not speak on behalf of or for women or from the perspective of being a woman. They can speak from the perspective of being a transgender person, but that's it. I'm sorry, but any judgement or discrimination you receive as a transgender person is not the same as the discrimination you would receive as a biological female. In fact, I would not only say it is different, but probably worse. It is simply intellectually dishonest to say that the treatment you receive is the same or that you can speak to it anymore than someone could say "well, I'm gay and therefore I understand what it is like to be discriminated against for being black". No. You can understand what it is like to be discriminated against for being gay. Unless you are also black, you don't know what it is like being discriminated against on the basis of race.
Why do you consistently lie to the media about being a woman? You are not a woman. You are a man who has a mental disorder and you need help. It's worth noting if slashdot deletes this comment, I'm interested in knowing if SJWs are running the shop here.
Let me make sure I've got this right. Are you saying that one can feel inherently like they are trapped in the constructs of a gender that is not matched by their biological gender/sex, but one can not feel trapped by the constructs of their biological race that do not match what they inherently know that they are, inside?
Your identity politics are seriously fucked if you're going to say that it's okay for this person over here to determine their identity, but not for someone else, because *that other person is totally crazy*. Hey, I can totally identify as wolfkin and that is legitimate, but fuck that otherkin over there!
Speaking of which, look at Brianna Wu. Gender issues aside and off the table (because other than the way she has been seen to treat other transgender people, including shitting on them on twitter when they write to her for help), just LOOK AT HER. She looks schizophrenic. Every single interview, photo... everything. She has those crazy eyes and that unkempt hair that the schizophrenics on public transportation have when you see them try to hurl themselves out of the door of a bus moving down the highway.
Of course she is in a constant state of victimization, just like a lot of paranoid schizophrenics are. That nobody has guided her to professional assistance by now is, frankly, unfortunate. Especially since she comes from money and should probably be able to get the mental help needed.
I was going to say you're either an idiot or a troll, looking at your posting history the answer is both
Its cute that anyone takes anyone seriously who keeps saying this over and over, offering ZERO facts, while people who are pro-GG constantly present factual information that get shouted down as "MAH SOGGY KNEES" instead of engaging in legitimate debate.
At the time of that particular *talk* there was no "no photography/video" rule in place (others were in fact taking photos and video without issue). The 'rule' was instigated *after* the panellist in question.*demanded it be done*, once that the guy in question had been kicked out. And that happened not because of the photo per se, but because the panellist recognised who he was, someone they have an extremely fractious relationship with (if it can be called that).
Wu,
Why is it that you claim you're supporting women in gaming, but if those women disagree with you, you block them or accuse them of internalized misogyny?
you used to be good, slashdot
From a Kotaku article:
Dani Berry is survived by her three children, who now operate a company which trades under the name Ozark Softscape (Berry’s old development studio), and which manages her IP and "digital legacy".
Not the same, but maybe we could get an interview with them?
So the cops are part of the conspiracy pushing the SJW narrative? I had no idea the conspiracy ran so deep.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Freudian slit?
*cries in the shower, comes back to slashdot*
It has nothing to do with cops, it has to do with POLITICS. Why do you think we have a border you could literally drive a nuke through, chunks of our cities becoming war zones and all we see on TV is debates over a 150 year old flag and whether gays marrying will shake up the country? Its because those topics are "safe", they won't expose any skeletons, its lets the politicians stump for or against without risking anything. They like stories like Wu because it gives you frankly a wealth of "first world problem" topics that are trivial and which won't cause a politician to risk anything. Congressman Porkus risks nothing if he comes out one way or another on feminism or a 150 year old flag, unlike risking votes and/or lobbyist money if we were to get on "real" issues. And what prosecutor is gonna wanna touch Wu? Why that might get me labeled an "ist" like sexist, transphobe, fuck that shit! Cops aren't gonna waste time if the prosecutor won't run with it and no prosecutor is gonna risk being called an "ist" in 2015, its political suicide and most prosecutors use that job as a stepping stone to higher office.
As for the media? As I said show me ONE, just one, 100% unbiased look at gamergate, with both sides treated as human beings instead of trying to demonize one or the other...you can't, because we don't have news orgs, we have political orgs. You will never get a left site like MSNBC (or NBC,CBS,ABC) to run a story that goes against the left political stance, anymore than you'll get Fox news to run a story that goes against the right political stance. It doesn't matter what the facts are if they came from Breitbart, or if they lean towards individuals being responsible for their own actions if you are a left site, just as nobody on the right is gonna care what the facts are if they came from HuffPo and lean towards a "stop stomping the poor" narrative.
So it really has nothing to do with gamergate, it has to do with pushing "news" that helps reinforce your political stance while still being "safe" compared to real "this could cost me votes" issues. As Jessie Ventura said "politics has become pro wrestling, you say all these nasty things about your opponent on camera and when the camera stops you and he go out to lunch and laugh about it with the lobbyists".
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Two days, no answers from Wu. Can we at least take down the patreon link?
a single story soliciting questions (you know, what they used to call a "dialog") is hardly the worst thing that Slashdot has ever done
Yes, it wouldn't be a problem. I think the main issue here is this is a nobody who made a crappy cellphone game (that took 3 years and $400k to make, yet the models and lighting look like they're from some projects using 3DS Max I did in High School) who plays the professional victim to no end. She recently was de-modded by Ghazi for not towing the line, and she is probably afraid her VictimBux(tm) are going to be expiring soon, so she has to whore her Patreon out anywhere she can.
Honestly, if this post never had the Patreon link, I probably wouldn't have cared. Now it just seems like another cry for money disguised as a way to ask Wu questions. Any time she has asked to have a dialogue with people, she ignores any serious questions, and only answers the ones that are along the lines of "How do you stay such a strong womyn in the face of adversity", to which the answer is almost always "Because people help me out and contribute to my Patreon, it lets me turn VictimBux(tm) into crappy games that will sink my company so bad, I have to seek VC funding to make R62"
My view of Brianna Wu is based on how radically she changed her story back and forth on interviews taking place just weeks after her original allegations of having fled her home. It's also reliant on not knowing how Twitter works.
On MSNBC, in a testimony vetted by a Re/Code reporter, she claimed to have gotten "thousands" of responses "from 8chan" after sending six memes via Tweet.
Well, you can't tweet to "8chan" (there may not even be a hashtag for it). There's no Twitter button which sends tweets to ANY chan board. Someone would have to pass it along, and these "thousands" of responses would have to be passed back in the form of tweets --- none of which would include any trace of originating with anyone on 8chan unless they actually said so. There IS a #GamerGate hashtag, but few of its members reference 8chan in any way, let alone identify themselves as members of an image board where almost everyone is completely anonymous.
What Wu apparently did was tweet to the #GamerGate hashtag, and then declare that all these "thousands" of responses were from Twitter users who also have 8chan accounts. For that matter, the responses which she and the Re/Code reporter showed MSNBC were virtually identical to the memes she had sent herself --- which she and he had characterized as "funny pictures, like lolcats" which she "thought nothing of". She then shut off Twitter and came back to it "later that evening".
At this point, the story is a nothingburger. Where is the harassment? We can't even say the sheer number of response amounts to that, because thousands of people post to the #GamerGate hashtag. Bomb a hashtag with memes, get bombed back, and it's all "funny pictures". Nothingburger.
The original MSNBC story changes when Wu goes on Pakman, however, and dramatically so.
All reference to fun disappears. Suddenly, Wu is saying she was engaged in a back-and-forth "for hours and hours and hours". Which doesn't sound like sending off six tweets, thinking nothing of it, shutting down Twitter, and turning it on later that evening. She says that she took a 24-hour break, after which a friend of hers said she was being doxxed on 8chan. She says she went there, witnessed the doxxing, and immediately received the Seven Deadly Tweets (from one unidentified burner account), and on that basis fled her home after calling police.
Well, the police now say they never heard from her (she calls it "communication errors"). This whole bit about a 24-hour break followed by doxxing, followed by the tweets, never appears in the MSNBC interview... her testimony there indicates it was a direct response to the "memestorm".
For Wu not to have been misrepresenting herself (at best, lying at worst), time travel becomes a requirement.
Finally, there is the fact that Wu is on record months BEFORE #GamerGate's existence, saying she was already getting so many rape and death threats on a daily basis that she lost track. The Seven Deadly Tweets make no mention of #GamerGate and barely touch on her job as a game developer. There's no real motive even given for the tweets, in the tweets, just threats.
In short, there's no actual reason to believe these tweets came from #GamerGate or anyone affiliated with it. They could just as easily have come from her pre-existing base of haters, or could even have been manufactured by someone who wanted to make a martyr out of her "for the cause".
Wu's strongest claim, that she personally witnessed being doxxed on 8chan followed immediately by the tweets, isn't something she presented in interviews until weeks after appearing on MSNBC --- as though she felt she needed to shore up her allegations. She certainly presents no screenshots of being doxxed, although she had no trouble screencapping the far more horrific tweets which arrived "immediately" after.
How is the criminal investigation into harassment going?
Last I heard, that Mass. prosecutors office isn't too happy with Wu lying about filing court documents about the people harassing her. I always find it funny that people lie about things that are public records.
Do you find law enforcement generally believes you, or do they accept the other side's claims that you ran an elaborate false flag operation against yourself? What kind of evidence is most effective, most likely to be understood and accepted? Can you recommend the best way to report criminal harassment?
Oh, this stuff. The best way to report harassment? Actually go down to a court house and file paperwork. The only problem is that you can't file harassment reports when you are harassing yourself or when people disagree with you on the internet.
You.... I like you.
I don't know if you've seen some of her posts on a trans support group forum, but she was pretty mean to other people going through some rough times. Some of the posts even made it seem that she hated other trans women. I would like to preface this next comment by saying I've stuck around through a good friends MTF transition, and I've been apart of the GSA and other LGBT support groups back in my HS and early college days - Honestly I think Wu got the transition done for attention. She has aspects from various Cluster-B personality disorders. In the group that she hangs out with, everyone competes to be the most special little snowflake ever, and she (well her parents) had the money to pay for everything, so she went ahead with it.
What, No Wendy Carlos? Switched On Bach was a groundbreaking album for the time. I guess its not as nerdy as an ARM chip designer though.
She is Trans. Go look up any available public records for John Flynt. He stopped existing when Brianna Wu came around, and they share the same addresses. Also, Mr. Flynt was born a rich white male. I take his perspective on anything besides being a trans woman with a grain of salt. Even then....
The article had exactly the intended effect. She got to claim she was a victim on twitter. [Archive]
I read all 300 toxic questions for my @slashdot interview, here are the ones I can answer
1. Yes, I like peanut M&Ms
She got exactly what she was going for. She never intended to answer any questions. She's just run out of venues to call her out on her bullshit. She heard Slashdot used to do 'tech', probably knew someone at Dice and got it put in. I wonder what Slashdot's traffic looked like today when she actively tried to get her followers to brigade Slashdot
And it's pretty easy to tell who they are. They have no Karma, didn't even Create an account
Meanwhile some of us have been on Slashdot for 10+ years and have decent post histories to fall back on. She claims it was GamerGaters that did this but most of them are too young to have ever found Slashdot.
These people can't handle the truth/criticism.
Fellow Slashdotters, nothing good can come of this. All Wu and her ally the OP wants is to harvest any comments that express disagreement with Wu, are less than nice, or that reference Wu's past bad behavior. She won't answer any real questions, much less hard ones. She will take all those harvested posts and tell everyone in the SJW-sphere that she was subjected to a "sexist hate campaign on a male-dominated tech site" or some such. Note that Wu has an incentive to get attention and be attacked, since this leads to Patreon bucks. She has no incentive to do anything to "help women in tech", since that won't get her any money.
But I've said too much - maybe my post will be evidence of "misogyny"! Oh well.
TLDR: Don't take this bait. If someone's Patreon is linked front and center, that should tell you everything you need to know about them.
His goal was to get kicked out by breaking the rules. That's why he "surreptitiously" took the photos, because he knew that the organizers had asked him not to. His scheme, which some people apparently fell for, was to make out he was the victim when he in fact went out of his way to be booted out.
So basically he fought fire with fire by playing the victim role that Wu so often does. I have to say, that was a very clever way for him to make his point.
I'm asking because you seem to be taking these slashdot threads really personally, and it seems a bit suspicious.
I can happily disclose that unlike the other poster who didn't say whether or not they have connections. I don't have connections with them, and I do have something to do with Gamergate.
Om, nomnomnom...
Uh no he didn't. He admitted that he has no problems encouraging an open environment and people to enjoy themselves. I guess that's why the actual aggressor was forced to write a public apology right?
Om, nomnomnom...
Oh hey stalker dave,
Maybe you can figure out how to use the proper reply to buttons
Look at the guy's posting history.
You could have all 9 supreme court justices tell him he's an idiot, and it wouldn't penetrate.
What did you have for breakfast? Did it make you fart?
Do you consider this entirely gender-neutral fart joke to be a form of sexual harassment? Do you appreciate that making wild accusations against people who disagree with you on sociopolitical issues has a chilling effect on public discourse? Do you understand that I am posting anonymously because even making a fart joke in the presence of a deranged militant Centrist like you could be hazardous to my livelihood and personal safety? For reals.
1) He only has appeal within the very narrow SJW circle as it is. So if he harvests comments from here and raises his stature the action will siphon resources away from people who might potentially be effective.
2) He is easily discredited. Any news outlet or publication that backs his position destroys their credibility as an unbiased presenter of factual information. (there are people that still believe in such things) The stories become brickbats that can be used against them when they go to bat for other causes. Don't think so ? Just look at what running this story has done for slashdot. People are really disgusted with this crap. Me I'll stick around but I have running adblock for years.
3) It shines a light on posters agendas. If you look at this thread there are posters who raise the same question over and over, even though it has been answered repeatedly. Their purpose isn't to seek answers but to cast doubt without any factual basis to do so.
https://archive.is/k4wVu
She's not at all interested in answering anything at all. Right as has been predicted by just about anyone asking questions that people *really* want answers to.
Why on Earth did Slashdot think interviewing her would be a good idea? Or even yield any results? We're talking about a person that has done literally *nothing* for the Gaming Community, other then attempting to drive it apart with her political agenda and social justice naratives. She's not even produced or help produce a sinlge popular game. Why is she even mentioned here? Slashdot is not a political/social justice site, but a site with news for nerds with stuff that matters. And Brianna Wu clearly does not 'matter'.
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smilies are for reetards
This idiot apparently doesn't understand 'No Violation of Public Policy,' which FCC regulations just happen to be considered 'Public Policy' as a legal matter of course.
The Supreme Court in fact made this very clear. They would not call me an idiot for understanding their ruling.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
May we have an "Interviews: Ask Jessie Jackson a Question" next?
As expected, all we have are some anonymous forum posts. Somehow that counts as evidence now.
Well, I knew this guy "Anonymous Coward" back at school. It was a total dick-head, racist, sex offender who liked to drink his own urine (said it improved his health). Apparently that's a fact now.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The increasing number of Amimojo submission in recents days leads me to believe that a certain group of submitters has gotten in with the editors (or may have been already) and are trying to shore up Slashdot for "social justice" for the umpteenth time. This site may be on the way to becoming another casuality of the eternal us cultural wars. It's sad to see it fall under the boots of justice warriors, but the US is becoming more and more fascist as the years go by.
Ah the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of the jewels of post war civilisation.
I wonder when the SJWs will finally declare their fatwa on the whole document. It's really only a matter of time at this stage.
Just as an aside everyone, either this article got brigaded by Ghazi or some other SJW hugbox, or some specific user with 6+ accounts is running through hitting things repeatedly with -1 Flamebaits. Two of my questions that were critical of Wu that were +5 are suddenly -1 Flamebait.
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
As you can see, it's very obviously someone abusing multiple accounts, as both comments were -1ed into oblivion before moving on to the next one:
http://i.imgur.com/jK54m0Z.png
In addition every other question that was critical of Wu has been docked down to -1 or 0 Flamebait as well:
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
Granted, this doesn't surprise me as having happened, as sockpuppet abuse is a very common tactic of these Social Justice Warrior Trolls, but it's still amusing to see in action.
Both gender and race are ultimately an identity. If you believe that Dolezal is "racially appropriating", then every trans woman is "gender-appropriating" in exact same way. I've read many articles trying to explain why this is not the case, but it all boils down to "because it is, and fuck you for even asking" (some make that latter part very explicit, basically saying that even daring to make an analogy is incredibly offensive).
The closest thing that came to a reasonable argument is that you can't change the race the way you can change gender, but it's refuted by the very fact that Dolezal has successfully claimed to be black, and was actually treated as black by everyone interacting with her, for so long. Which makes perfect sense when you accept that race is a social construct - if it's social, it's defined solely in terms of how the person sees themselves and other people see them.
The "heritage" part is largely irrelevant unless you believe that culture is transmitted through genes and cannot be claimed without an appropriate dose of said genes (i.e. if you're an ethnic nationalist or a racialist). The "culture" part is more relevant, but again, race, insofar as it pertains to discrimination, is not what defines culture, it is defined in terms of culture. There was no such thing as "black race" until specific societies (such as US) have invented it for the specific purpose of drawing the boundaries to define who is a second class citizen. Again, it is an artificial social construct, which is blatantly obvious when you have things such as "one-drop rule". As such, it is more flexible than gender, not less.
Suppose Dolezal had a single (known) black ancestor from 1800, and everyone else in her heritage was white. By the laws of the time, her entire direct family tree would be considered black, and treated as such explicitly up until the end of segregation, and implicitly up to this day (unless they specifically chose to hide that heritage). If, instead, she invents such an ancestor, everyone today will still treat her as black in the same exact way as if the ancestor was not there.
And don't tell me that this is about her upbringing or that she wasn't discriminated against (until she declared herself to be black, that is - I think it's obvious that if she was genuinely considered as black by people, she had no "white privilege" to speak of in that status). A native immigrant from an African country would not have experiences of being "unprivileged" when growing up, but once they move to US (for the sake of analogy, assume they're of the same age as Dolezal) they will also find themselves categorized as black with all that entails - and I don't think anyone would seriously deny them the right to self-identify as black based on the fact that they were not raised in a culture where they are discriminated against.
What matters is how they are treated here and now, not what they were before. Whether it is about race, gender, religion, or any other form of self-identification is irrelevant.
And the FCC has what to do with cameras? They might say you can't block the wireless signal used to copy pictures to the internet, but they have ZERO jurisdiction regarding the filming/photography itself.
And yeah, if the organizers were jamming they might have a leg in the game. That doesn't preclude the organizers kicking somebody out for a violating the rules. Not sure what kinda crack you're on but you might want to cut back a bit.
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