I finally made it all the way to the end of the book, and in the last chapter Nagle does vaguely refer to the work of about three or four female scholars, specifically ones who have documented online harassment. Since there's no list of works referenced, though, it's not easy to track down these citations unless you already happen to be familiar with them. It's possible that the publisher forced Nagle to remove her works referenced section to reduce publishing costs, but I suspect that Nagle herself wanted to obliquely suggest that, like some sort of shitty Athena, she sprang fully formed out of Zeus' butthole.
I feel so uncharitable toward this woman, it's kind of obscene. This may be because I am a special snowflake myself, but I feel quite strongly that One Does Not place the onus of blame for the most recent resurgence of white supremacist neoliberal politics on left-leaning college and high school students on Tumblr.
I guess I should have known what to expect from her discussion of Zoe Quinn in the first chapter. Nagle is like...
Gamergate itself kicked off when Zoe Quinn created a video game called Depression Quest, which even to a nongamer like me looked like a terrible game featuring many of the fragility and mental illness-fetishizing characteristics of the kind of feminism that has emerged online in recent years.
Idk, I think a fifteen-minute playthrough of the game makes it fairly obvious that Quinn was "really" depressed and "really" suffering. And a large part of the actual text was written by a man, right? Who is not mentioned here because... of reasons?
Nevertheless, her dreadful game got positive reviews from politically sympathetic indie game journalists
Okay now that's just mean.
I think the biggest flaw of this book, however, is that the author does not in fact weigh in on anime and MLP, alas.
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Date: 2017-06-14 09:30 pm (UTC)I feel so uncharitable toward this woman, it's kind of obscene. This may be because I am a special snowflake myself, but I feel quite strongly that One Does Not place the onus of blame for the most recent resurgence of white supremacist neoliberal politics on left-leaning college and high school students on Tumblr.
I guess I should have known what to expect from her discussion of Zoe Quinn in the first chapter. Nagle is like...
Gamergate itself kicked off when Zoe Quinn created a video game called Depression Quest, which even to a nongamer like me looked like a terrible game featuring many of the fragility and mental illness-fetishizing characteristics of the kind of feminism that has emerged online in recent years.
Idk, I think a fifteen-minute playthrough of the game makes it fairly obvious that Quinn was "really" depressed and "really" suffering. And a large part of the actual text was written by a man, right? Who is not mentioned here because... of reasons?
Nevertheless, her dreadful game got positive reviews from politically sympathetic indie game journalists
Okay now that's just mean.
I think the biggest flaw of this book, however, is that the author does not in fact weigh in on anime and MLP, alas.