That divide between reality and perception is part of the larger cultural epistemic crisis that has loomed over the US for the past five years — and arguably began with #Gamergate.
The movement’s insistence that it was about one thing (ethics in journalism) when it was about something else (harassing and threatening women and getting away with it) provided a case study for how MALE extremists would proceed to drive ideological fissures through the foundations of democracy: by building a toxic campaign of hate beneath a veneer of denial. (supported by dipshit corporate males, who claim not to have learned).
Five years later, it seems, the rest of us are still struggling to learn from the consequences. {of ignoring and enabling sexism and misogyny and adding to female erasure with the worship of trans-identified males violations) durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
GOSH! who would have thunk there would be repercussions to rape culture and victim blaming when the population of victims reaches a tipping point?!
@Nemesis_Nyx How do you explain that both male and female opponents and supporters of Gamergate received the same amount of harassment and death threats if Gamergate supposedly targeted women?
