Many thanks for the gamergate link
It is a conversation I had not encountered, and yet it captures some of a dissatisfaction I have experienced yet struggled to explain. I believe a large part of this is simply witnessing a lack of imagination in current journalism (a chance irony, given criticisms currently levied against developers).
Personally, I have rarely encountered the word
'trope(s)' until it began to appear in every such discussion. To clarify, I see this as symptomatic of an idea
copy/paste rather than the issue itself. A homogenization of language tends to reflect a homogenization of thought, or if you like: plagiarism (failing to cite that the bulk of ideas in your writing are not your own). I would mind such articles less if the authors bothered to contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. If not corrupt, such endless repetitions are at a minimum extremely dull.
This is not to say that I identify with a
side, I remain my own
