Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.
Interpretation
The quote critiques the facade of Gamergate as a movement for ethics, revealing deeper social issues regarding gender in gaming.
This quote from Brianna Wu highlights the disparity between the stated intentions of the Gamergate movement and its actual impact. While supporters claim to advocate for journalistic integrity in the gaming industry, the underlying reality is that the movement is often rooted in misogyny and a resistance to the changing demographics of the gaming community. This commentary points to the broader struggle against sexism and the challenges faced by women in traditionally male-dominated spaces.
In practice
In a discussion about the role of women in gaming, this quote can be used to illustrate the resistance faced by female developers.
Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.
It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.
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