Most interesting thing about #gamergate: the #notyourshield protests

While there have been a few reasonable heroes of discourse on both sides of the #gamergate fiasco, overall I feel there are too many horrible people on both sides and too many convoluted nested chains of events for this to be worth taking a stand over (except in the general sense that no one should be threatened and harassed over it, obviously).



That said, for me personally the most interesting thing to come out of it all is the #notyourshield protests, where women and minorities tired of being spoken for raised concern about being used to deflect attention from SJW weak points and malfeasance. I'd been expecting this sort of thing to blow up more and more in online discourse, and now I'm wondering where it's going to go next, if anywhere. What do you all think?







For the record, while I am and remain very socially liberal, I had been feeling increasing discomfort over the way SJW types were using women/minorities prior to #gamergate. I never talk about this in real life because the necessary nuance is difficult to achieve and that can be a professional/social death sentence in New York circles. I'm still nervous bringing it up online.

Most interesting thing about #gamergate: the #notyourshield protests