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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.
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 ?
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.)
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.
Not accusations, demonstrations. When in every single thread having anything remotely to do with GamerGaters being assholes, we see GamerGaters providing extensive amounts of evidence that they are in fact assholes, it sets the stage for "If it walks like a duck..."
It's been many many months since there have needed to be any accusations. The proof is in the figgy pudding you all leave behind wherever you go.
Do you understand my point?
You are welcome on my lawn.