We Hunted the Mammoth

Exactly. How will wee poor, oppressed male programmers survive as only 80 or 90% of the field? For those wondering about the weird "betafication" thing, I recommend reading this fine blog: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/ It's a trope of the self-anointed "men's rights" crowd, from people who are in a continual hysteria about how society is stopping them from being proper alpha males. Never quite getting that passive-aggressive anonymous-coward Internet message board comments are not how chimpanzee males work out their dominance issues.

There's this classic: http://www.themarysue.com/scott-adams-mens-rights/ And of course the sock puppets: http://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/scott_adams_sock_puppetry_scandal/ http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2011/04/16/scott-adams-imaginary-fri…

Probably not - Scott Adams is fairly "Men's Right"y[1] and this plays right into that. [1] http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/?s=scott+adams

The undisputed face of the MRM is Paul Elam who runs the hugely popular "A Voice for Men" website. He is a great example of a bitter misogynist MRA asshole: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/paul-elam-of-a-voice-for-men-… There are lots of good reasons to talk about issues affecting men, but sadly the bad parts of the MRM far outweigh the good at this point. I'd say it's 85% bashing feminism, complaining about women's sexual power (e.g. The Friendzone), denying and minimizing rape as a social problem, etc. and only 15% talking about fathers' custody rights and boys' education issues.

It's always amazing how people repeat this coal mine idea: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-a-problem-…

https://lithub.com/what-to-make-of-isaac-asimov-sci-fi-giant-and-dirty… https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2020/01/08/isaac-asimov-prolific-au… https://daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/ ...and those are just the first few that came up on Google. I'm too sad to look for more... :-(

Don't forget this gem from November: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/21/scott-adams-we-live-in-a-… Or his insane defense of rapists and harassers: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2011/06/16/scott-adams-male-chauvini…

No, this is not about some inaccuracies, she many times has declared to have some very extreme perceptions: "Not a coincidence it’s always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture." Source: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/26/on-friday-anita-sarkeesian-ca…

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/paul-elam-of-a-voice-for-men-… Regardless of your thoughts on feminism, describing the content on avoiceformen as being 'very reasonable' is absurd.

There absolutely is organised harrasment, it's organised on an IRC channel: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/09/08/zoe-quinns-screenshots-of-4ch… The well is not only poisoned by its originators but entirely made from poison. The whole original premise about corruption of games journalism is absurd; if that's what they were going after, it would look entirely different, because it's mostly a big-business phenomenon rather than an indie phenomenon. Edit: no, you can't "no true Scotsman" your way out of this one. The movement is entirely mis-targeted by ignoring the big publishers. They also claimed the "success" of getting Intel to pull advertising from a site, which just pushes the whole games journalism business closer to an industry press release republishing facade. Speaking of Scotsmen, the recent independence debate (which involved "strong emotions" over things that were actually important, unlike gamersgate) was far more civil than this. Tens of thousands of people somehow managed to campaign without death threats.