To distill down Gamergate, it is essentially female cultural imperialism (in the form of SJW's) invading a male space. It's also about graft and corruption in gaming media. Actually it is about graft and corruption in gaming media, but the people fighting against gamergate are feminists that have infiltrated the gaming press and are dictating what gaming is, what is and isn't acceptable and talking about things being 'problematic' and generally trying to ban things they don't like while lying about their motives.

What made me make the biggest connection, however, was the article on here (I can't find the link) by someone claiming that 'We need a new men's rights movement'. Basically saying that 'it's such a shame you guys have such a bad reputation' after engaging in years of dishonest slander. Personally I heard about the Men's Rights movement when someone literally compared me to the Nazi's because I took a side an issue I felt was sensible, and was basically told 'MRA's are the worst people imaginable'. I've yet to actually see someone in the MRA movement do something like that without being called out - and am proud of you guys not tolerating it. Same issue with Gamergate - if you control the media you control the narrative, and a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.

The issue we have is that women have the victim card, and men are pretty much unable to play it. It goes like this:

1: Feminists say something offensive, preachy, and talk down to people. 2: The inevitable people engage in the usual petty harassment. 3: The feminists cry 'oppression', do interviews where they claim to have been 'driven from their homes' and profit from the publicity. 4: The feminist media laps this up and declares the harassment endemic, tarring the whole movement.

Of course the feminists also have their total nutjob supporters (every side does) but their behaviour, swatting, doxxing, getting people fired, gets no traction as there are zero clicks in male victim status. I ran a crappy Linux blog that nobody read a few years back and I got low level harassment. Everyone does it, everyone gets it, but the feminist movement has managed, though a victim narrative, to convince the world that they are sole victims - or the only ones that count at least.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that there is a very large overlap between Gamergate and Mens Rights that doesn't appear to be acknowledged. If nothing else it is one of the last few male spaces left - and when I say 'male space' I do not mean men only, I mean run according to male sensibilities rather than PC pandering. Currently the media backed feminists are going full tilt against gamers - and gamers are pushing back.

If we can get a few pro-men places to run stories and just generally raise awareness about the horrendous behaviour the anti-Gamergate side engage in - They've been posting Milo at Breitbart stuff like syringes and dead animals, with barely a peep from the media - I think it could go a long way to stop the destruction of yet another male space.

Anyway if you are interested, look at the Kotaku In Action subreddit. And don't forget to call me a moron if you think I am, because you can, because this isn't an Orwellian hugbox, which is wonderful and worth fighting to keep.