Originally Posted by Jito463
Oh, brother....

Nice refutation, well considered and poignant. Good example of the hashtag's reluctance to engage with specifics. Thanks for the help.

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*sigh* rolleyes

It's called metonymy. Or, I guess more specifically, synecdoche. It's a literary device, in the above example used as a way of lessening a gender. The 'influence of vaginas' thing was/is? a fairly common phrase used on Gamergate sites 8chan and KotakuInAction.

If you outright deny that large aspects of the hashtag inescapably align with anti-social justice issues, then you're ignorant or a liar.

My point stands: "fighting against the corruption in gaming media" is deceptively vague and demonstrably untrue. The hashtag is fighting against a very specific kind of perceived corruption ('SJW's are secretly trying to manipulate our media), to wit, a conspiracy theory.


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