Question 3: Have You Ever Experienced a Real-World Example of Your Cause?

If you answered no, it's most likely bullshit.

Ask a fanatical gun nut if, for all their paranoia, they've ever had their weapons physically taken away from them by the government. Those guys sure are silly and deluded, huh? OK, now replace "guns" with "games about guns" and "government" with "the feminist anti-sexism cabal." We know you're very upset about this topic, but have you ever suffered a real-world consequence from it? You know, stuff like:

npr.org

bostonglobe.com

We picked non-gaming sites just for you, dear conspiracy theorist.

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You could probably find an example where a guy did get bullied by a pack of feminists and they burned his copy of GTA V, just like the gun nuts eagerly point to the time the government did take a drunken blind guy's weapons (and then returned them). The scale model for this is "racism" vs. "prejudice" -- the latter is where you find individual cases of white men being harassed or beaten up for being white, the former is a societal problem like 52 percent of crack smokers being white while 79 percent of all sentenced offenders are black. Anyone can prove vaccination is unsafe when they use the one or two times a child was injured when a vaccine aggravates an unknown cell disorder, but that requires ignoring broad trends and statistics saying how rare that is. Anyone can prove there's no sexism if they ignore all the sexism.