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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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Briefly in 2015 I stumbled upon a blog that covered human biology, and then a couple more interlinked. Kinda got a bad feeling after an hour of reading it, kept on hate-reading it for another few days, realized "yeah, these are racists, bye". Went back to the Wokemon fedbook page and anarchist online spaces.
When Gamergate was happening, my biggest concern with games was "all the people with the best stats are the ones who can afford better PCs and premium subscriptions and other ingame store items". Not having a predictable income to amply support myself made me start to radicalize through my online gaming experience. I think it was on a gaming forum that I was linked to Capitalism and other Kids' Stuff.
I think this is why gamergate was happening. All microtransaction and capitalist exploitation stuff has just become solidified as "a part of video games" now. It wouldn't surprise me if the gamergate stuff was designed to push people into avoiding developing "class consciousness" for video games.
Sort of reminds me of how all these anti trans bigots are so worried about "fairness in sports" when sports are extremely unfair to begin with. even if you were to stipulate to every claim being made about trans women "cheating", it would still not be a drop in the bucket compared to the different access to stability and wealth provides, especially at elite levels.
A family I know if going through this really hard with their kids right now because they want to play sports with the other kids. But they're not just kicking a ball around, the friends all get coaching, go on trips and play sports with a lot of equipment and other expenses. The kids are so sad and left out because there is no way the parents can even begin to scrounge up the money to have them participate. Not just the money but also the social connections, resources and knowledge that the parents who are immigrants from a different context can't have.
None of these "fairness" advocates care one iota about these children as long as nobody is apparently trans.