“BUT WHEN IT COMES TO GAMERGATE, FINDING ANY SINGLE KIND OF POINT TO LOCK ONTO IN TERMS OF THE VIEWPOINT IS IMPOSSIBLE. REALLY. IT’S LIKE TRYING TO TANGO ON QUICKSAND. EVERY TIME YOU GO BEHIND THE CLAIM YOU HIT ANOTHER LIE, ANOTHER THING SOMEONE WILL SAY YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND.”
Over at Badass Digest, Devin Faraci occasionally writes pieces about films, TV, and storytelling in general through the gentle but impassioned perspective of the Hulk. Today he posted this massive essay on the Gamergate issue.
The Hulk schtick can be a little over the top sometimes, but I often enjoy and respond to his sincerity and his excellent, insightful take on subjects like this. Getting a handle on Gamergate can be so difficult, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, wondering how it's gotten to be such a swollen, dark and disturbing exhibit in the museum of the Internet.
Here Hulk tries to suss out what makes it such a slippery, insidious thing. It's a long piece but definitely worth the read.