The last word on Gamergate

… or at least the last word that isn’t from a “slopebrowed weaseldick”

The shrill conspiracy mongering and toxic threats of Gamergate [sic] are the side effects of Western culture, and US culture in particular, finally getting around to saying out loud to a certain type of obsolete man that the rest of us have come to a consensus in which degrading women and denying the rights of sexual or ethnic minorities to equal treatment is not acceptable. Nor should anybody have to endure constant insults and discrimination because of what they are or how they choose to live, or have to see constant, unrelenting and unapologetic images of people like themselves being treated as subhuman. Anyone who thinks that “social justice”– to use the Gamergoatfuckers favourite insult apart from saying they’ll rape or kill you– is a bad thing needs to sit down and shut the fuck up. It’s over, you lost, your time is coming to an end. You just don’t know it yet.

(Incidentally, this article by Arthur Chu intelligently traces back from the current debacle to one of recent history’s other big moments of raging, irrational masculine backlash against uppity minorities seen as threatening to the belief of certain straight white males that they have inalienable rights to the entirety of culture and society revolving around them and their interests; the disco backlash of the late 70s.)

All that said, it is with great pleasure that I present a link to a magnificent diatribe against this rabble of imbeciles/nacent terrorist group by former (American) footballer Chris Kluwe. I know! Not only is it a great piece of prose in its own right, being well structured and cogently argued despite his apparently incandescent anger, it also contains some beautifully vivid insults aimed at anybody who thinks a petty spat about reviews on a gaming site or merely pointing out examples of misogyny in a game you like justifies women (or anyone) being threatened with rape and death, or having to leave their home in fear for their safety. Read the article for context, obviously, but I couldn’t resist making a little shrine to such a delightful explosion of invective. I know nothing else about him but I love this man.

A tabulation of the insults in ‘Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off‘

• “A blithering collection of wannabe Wikipedia philosophers, drunk on your own buzzwords, incapable of forming an original thought.”
• “… makes me wonder if lead paint is a key component of your diet”
• “Angry neckbeards”
• “Little Anne Franks, hiding in their basements from the PC Nazis and Social Justice Warrior brigades, desperately protecting the last shreds of “core gaming” in their unironically horrible Liveblog journals filled with patently obvious white privilege and poorly disguised misogyny.”
• “Paint-huffing shitgoblins”
• “Slopebrowed weaseldicks”
• “Basement-dwelling, cheetos-huffing, poopsock-sniffing douchepistol”
• “Slackjawed pickletits”
• “Hemorrhoidal gunt stains”
• “It makes me want to pick you all up collectively and shake you until your rectum leaks out what little brains you possess because YOU’RE SO FUCKING DUMB.”
• “For some reason you think sharing your toys with others is going to make the world explode.”
• “Social ineptitude and too much time spent picturing yourself as the only creature that matters in the universe.”
• “… the mouthvomits you like to pretend are logical trains of thought.”
• “… some script-kiddie /b/tards and conspiracy-nut celebrities gleefully using you as a smokescreen for misogynistic hate.”
• “… apparently you pestilent little toads can’t imagine the concept of friendship.”
• “You don’t even see the complete idiocy of this idea because you’re too busy wargleblargling your face into your keyboard.”
• “Feel free to direct some of that naivete at the actual media, whose job is to cover things that actually matter.”
• “Misogynistic mouthbreathers who get off on making rape threats”
• “Misogynistic creeps”
• “Misogynistic cretins in all their mouthbreathing glory.”
• “Basement-dwelling sweatbeast”
• “I hope you all, every #Gamergater, picks up a debilitating case of genital warts.”