Would this qualify as a sufficiently scary threat? Both men and women receive various kinds of abuse online. I would guess that most of the aggressors are men, but victims are of both genders. Being a victim of online harrassment is not a uniquely female experience, although some specific forms of harrassment may be, mostly of sexual kind. I would also guess that victims of "swatting" are typically men, but I have no data about it.
Now I feel it would be good to split the debate into two completely separated topics: feminism and GamerGate. Debating them as if they are the same thing would make this all extremely confusing. Framing GamerGate as "angry white men against feminists" is merely a propaganda of one side; in reality, both sides include angry white men, and both sides include feminists.
1) I believe I have read a few stories about violent behavior of feminists, but I usually don't keep records of things I read online. If my memory is reliable, the complaints about abuse from feminists usually came from LGBT people, although officially the feminists are supposed to be on their side. Googling for "violent feminists" mostly brings false positives, but also this.
I admit I am confused about the phenomenon of online SJWs. Are they supposed to be a part of feminism, or is that a separate thing? Because their opinions seem similar to some extreme feminist opinions. Seems to me these people do a lot of online harrassment, although on internet it is difficult to prove something isn't merely trolling. And generally, even if someone is a feminist, that doesn't mean that everything they do is done in the name of feminism.
2) Here is a collection of abuse towards pro-Gamergate people. Again, it's difficult to prove who did that. We would have to debate each piece of evidence individually, but I'd rather avoid that.
That first link strikes me as not extremely scary, and it seems to be a rant rather than a threat which was sent to someone in particular. Furthermore, it doesn't have specific details about injuries and degradation. It isn't a photoshopped image of the person being threatened, either.
Gamergate is hopelessly weird-- as you may know, the initial post was basically a man talking about having been emotionally abused by a woman, with only a minor mention of games and journalism, and it morphed into something completely different.
As far as I can tell, SJWs cons...
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