And that's exactly how feminist should be. Following GamerGate for the last six months has completely flipped my views on feminism. I use to think it was a necessary evil, but I see now it's just become a shield for bad actors to use to do bad things, but then claim it's for the moral good. I've found a number of great feminist though and decided that to resolve the issues of the "third-wave" feminist the best course of action will be to support the good ones.
Christina H. Sommers, and Cathy Young to name a couple. These women seem to realize the pendulum has swung too far to one side. They support feminism, but not at the cost of allowing outrage feminist to spread misleading statistics and lies to scare other younger women into becoming feminist who don't support equality, but simply propagate more fear and lies. The reason we don't have more women in tech is because they're scared off by stories of how bad things are, which is perpetuated by the media that loves a good click bait story that can be blown a hundred times out of proportion using "opinion" pieces where they don't' have to use "facts" or the "truth". So young women end up in gender studies instead learning how to create more fear, which just propagates the cycle.
Many of the women I personally work with are much older than myself and often told me they never feel like they've been discriminated against, but they're told they're the anomaly so they just keep quite on it. One shared a case where she was having that conversation with a friend, who's a sociologist, and was basically told, "Well good for you, now shut your mouth because the rest of us are dealing with it and you're making it harder."
Honestly, I wish I'd never started following GamerGate, it's made me really cynical toward everyone. I see agendas everywhere now. Whenever a new hit piece on GamerGate comes out I go and read the journalists twitter feed and it's years of retweeting ideologies, "Save the women", "Men are rapists", "RAPE CULTURE UP 400% ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES!! EPIDEMIC!!". What's really hard to swallow is it seems like 80% the journalists is some straight hipster white guy telling ALL other straight white guys how evil they are and acting smug because apparently knowing how evil ALL cis-white-males are means your immune to being evil yourself. Just go read John Bowman's [twitter.com] feed to see what I mean.
Sorry I ranted all over your journal. I guess I'm getting despite for conversations that are more than 140 characters ^_^
-- "Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 4, Informative) by Vanderhoth on Wednesday March 11 2015, @11:07AM
And that's exactly how feminist should be. Following GamerGate for the last six months has completely flipped my views on feminism. I use to think it was a necessary evil, but I see now it's just become a shield for bad actors to use to do bad things, but then claim it's for the moral good. I've found a number of great feminist though and decided that to resolve the issues of the "third-wave" feminist the best course of action will be to support the good ones.
Christina H. Sommers, and Cathy Young to name a couple. These women seem to realize the pendulum has swung too far to one side. They support feminism, but not at the cost of allowing outrage feminist to spread misleading statistics and lies to scare other younger women into becoming feminist who don't support equality, but simply propagate more fear and lies. The reason we don't have more women in tech is because they're scared off by stories of how bad things are, which is perpetuated by the media that loves a good click bait story that can be blown a hundred times out of proportion using "opinion" pieces where they don't' have to use "facts" or the "truth". So young women end up in gender studies instead learning how to create more fear, which just propagates the cycle.
Many of the women I personally work with are much older than myself and often told me they never feel like they've been discriminated against, but they're told they're the anomaly so they just keep quite on it. One shared a case where she was having that conversation with a friend, who's a sociologist, and was basically told, "Well good for you, now shut your mouth because the rest of us are dealing with it and you're making it harder."
Honestly, I wish I'd never started following GamerGate, it's made me really cynical toward everyone. I see agendas everywhere now. Whenever a new hit piece on GamerGate comes out I go and read the journalists twitter feed and it's years of retweeting ideologies, "Save the women", "Men are rapists", "RAPE CULTURE UP 400% ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES!! EPIDEMIC!!". What's really hard to swallow is it seems like 80% the journalists is some straight hipster white guy telling ALL other straight white guys how evil they are and acting smug because apparently knowing how evil ALL cis-white-males are means your immune to being evil yourself. Just go read John Bowman's [twitter.com] feed to see what I mean.
Sorry I ranted all over your journal. I guess I'm getting despite for conversations that are more than 140 characters ^_^
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe