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Mother Tones HOME POLITICS ENVIRONMENT CULTURE PHOTO ESSAYS BLOGS Must Reads: How Judges Humiliate Pregnant Teens Who Want Abortions Is Your Dentist Ripping You Off? CULTURE - Sex and Gender. Tech. Top Stories These 7 Geek Icons Have Had Enough of #Gamergate. Here's How They're Fighting Back. A cliched bloodthirsty roaming gang from post-apocalyptic fiction seems to be ruling gaming jandom nght now. -By Rebecca Cohen Fri Oct. 17, 2014 8:30 PM EDT Tweet Emails50 Seth Rogen is dead to Gamergate supporters. Gage Skidmore/Flickr As the conflict known as #Gamergate continues rolling the internet, some #Gamergaters have been surprised to find that their geek idols aren't exactly on their side. Take, for example, science fiction author William Gibson, coiner of the term "cyberspace," who retweeted this on Tuesday confess I'd never heard of #gamergate till tonight. But reassured that there are vast unknown fields of crazy remaining to explore. ーJosh Marshall ( @joshtpm) October 15, 2014 "F---. F---. F------ hell," an 8chan user wrote on the site's GamerGate message board after reading through Gibson's Twitter feed. "I have been waiting for his new book forever but now I dont even want to buy it...I feel devastated." Dozens of irate gamers responded with the names of other fallen heroes who've "betrayed" them by criticizing macho video game culture. Here's a sampling of the offending tweets From screenwriter and director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Avengers): TERRORISM ISN'T BLOWING THINGS UP. IT'S USING THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE TO COW US AND CONTROL OUR ACTIONS. http://t.co/piK9w1cqNC Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) October 15, 2014 From comedian Patton Oswalt: @assclit I'm not a gamer. The misogyny of "GamerGate" sickened me, which you could have learned with two clicks of research ーPatton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 14, 2014 From actor and filmmaker Seth Rogen (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up): @AdamBaldwin please stop supporting this stupid cause Seth Rogen (Sethrogen) October 15, 2014 (Adam Baldwin has been one of #Gamergate's most outspoken supporters.) From actress Felicia Day (The Guild) @Nelsormensch @kirkhamilton A cliched bloodthirsty roaming gang from post-apocalyptic fiction seems to be ruling gaming fandom right now Felicia Day (@feliciaday) September 4, 2014 From computer game designer Tim Schafer (LucasArts, Double Fine Productions) I think everyone who makes games should watch this video from start to finish. http://t.co/5W56lFNVp2 ーBlad the Impaler(@TimOfLegend) August 26. 2014 From animator Mariel Cartwright (Skullgirls): Gamergate gets me pretty f------ down. Well, see ya Satan (@kinucakes) October 12, 2014 Lamented another 8chan user, with no apparent irony:"Unfortunately even misinformed people can put out their opinion on whatever they want, and they've got a large platform to do it with via the internet." f Share on Facebook Share on Twitter REBECCA COHEN Editorial Fellow Rebecca Cohen is an ed torial fel low at Mother Jones. RSS I TWITTER

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adregun

Oct 18, 2014 at 06:30PM EDT

>Icons of geek culture
>I have never heard about these guys till like a month ago when one of them spoke against GG
…Seriously, who the hell are these people?

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thegreato

Oct 18, 2014 at 06:05PM EDT

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Good lord….there are so many stupid….stupid people….

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