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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 08:55 AM Apr 2015

GamerGate teams up with their MRA brothers to troll Calgary Expo

and got their ass handed to them(they got kicked out of the Expo)!

A Gamergate affiliated group known as Honey Badger Radio procured a booth for Calgary Expo through a crowdfundng campaign specifically geared toward gaining attendance under false pretenses. The people representing them are Karen Straughan, Mike Stephenson, Alison Tieman, and Sage Gerard.....

Their show is broadcast by A Voice For Men, one of the biggest men’s rights website on the internet. Less specific plans for Calgary Expo were also detailed on that group’s site, which is classified as a “women-hating” site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and said in part: “The Honey Badgers are a diverse group of female gender apostates–women who oppose outdated ideas of gender, particularly the association of womanhood with weakness. We offer an alternative to the damaging portrayal of women as victims of geek and gamer culture.”

We’re not done just yet. The group also attended the “Women Into Comics” panel last night. Panelist Brittney Le Blanc gave us this account of the events that transpired:

We were about fifteen minutes into the panel when a woman in the second row stood up and identified herself as a Men’s Rights Activist. She and her male companion both came to raise issues they felt would not be covered by our panel. Raising points about the way men are portrayed in comics struck a note with all the panelists, as we agreed that we want to see a diversity across body types, characters, races, etc in mainstream comics. Not everyone wants to see a hero who looks like he’s built like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. They also accused us of presenting all women as victims, which was an outright lie and derailing tactic.


http://www.themarysue.com/calgary-expo-gamergate-evicted/

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GamerGate teams up with their MRA brothers to troll Calgary Expo (Original Post) sufrommich Apr 2015 OP
That's ok little boys DonCoquixote Apr 2015 #1
They are such whiners, no? littlemissmartypants Apr 2015 #2
MRA's ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #3

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
1. That's ok little boys
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 09:15 AM
Apr 2015

Because as the Tomb raiders, Bioshock Infinites, and Assasin's creeds with female leads make big time bucks, you will be put out to pasture where you always should have been, and those of us in the modern gaming community will pour cement over your bloated corpses, and drive shiny new vehicles over you.

ismnotwasm

(41,919 posts)
3. MRA's
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 12:32 PM
Apr 2015

Not that Gamergaters aren't epic assholes, but I wonder if they realize how far into nut-jobbery they've fallen?

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