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Felicia Day Writes About Fear of #GamerGate, Almost Immediately Gets Attacked By #GamerGaters

Actress (and highly public geek culture figure) Felicia Day wrote a rather personal entry in her Tumblr blog yesterday expressing her fears about and how the misogyny-driven movement has affected her life in a negative way.

Well within an hour of posting it, Felicia Day was almost immediately “doxxed” by #Gamergaters.

I don’t know if participants in #Gamergaters understand the concept of “proving their opposition right,” but it seems to be their forte. We’ve avoided talking about here at Nerd & Tie, not because we don’t have strong opinions about the hate-movement, but honestly because we were kind of hoping it would have blown over by now.

But it hasn’t.

Zoe Quinn is still getting threatened. As is Anita Sarkeesian. As is Brianna Wu. And it’s not about “ethics in gaming journalism” no matter how you slice it, since that smoke screen was literally created just to confuse the argument. There may be some who joined on for that reason, but that’s not where this started.

And if you have a problem with Nerd & Tie’s opposition to , feel free to stop reading or listening to our content – because we don’t want to hear it.

Trae Dorn

Trae Dorn has been staffing conventions for over twenty-five years. They also wrote and drew the now completed webcomic UnCONventional, and produce the podcasts BS-Free Witchcraft, On This Day With Trae, Stormwood & Associates, The Meatgrinder, and The Nerd & Tie Podcast. This leads many to ask how the heck they have the time to get it all done. Trae says they have the time because they “do it all quite poorly.”

2 thoughts on “Felicia Day Writes About Fear of #GamerGate, Almost Immediately Gets Attacked By #GamerGaters

  • In a somewhat ironic twist, Chris Kluwe (ex-Vikings punter) wrote a scathing article against GamerGate and wasn’t doxxed. But hey, ethics huh?

    Reply
    • kateoriot

      And he even pointed this out on Twitter. Oy vey.

      Reply

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