Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq) and Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) are feminist critics of the videogame industry who seem to be trying to cash in on the fact that they are feminist critics of the videogame industry. This involves portraying themselves as victims of horrific harassment and criminal threats. Who is engaging in this harassment? Who is making these threats? We don’t know, because it seems to be coming from a lot of anonymous online accounts, and I strongly suspect that some of these threats are fake. But whether it’s fake or real, the harassment is being blamed on the gamers who, using the Twitter hashtag #GamerGate, have been blowing the whistle on some of the sleazy tactics by which feminists have been trying to turn gaming into a Political Correctness Zone and — oh, just by the way — cut themselves in on a slice of the multibillion-dollar videogame industry pie.

Thursday, the feminists got themselves a front-page puff-piece in the New York Times, after Sarkeesian cancelled a university speech in Utah claiming she felt unsafe because of a threat. Click here to see the threat. You tell me if that looks legit. It looks phony as hell to me, but here’s the thing: I DON’T CARE IF IT’S REAL OR FAKE.

What’s important to me is that we learn the truth. I want an all-out law-enforcement investigation of these threats, I want some arrests and prosecutions, and I want to know the names of the responsible parties, because I’m sick and tired of this bullshit about “Oh, we’re courageous feminists and people say mean things about us on the Internet! Help! Help! We’re victims!”

People say mean things about me on the Internet every day, but that’s not a front-page story in the New York Times, is it?

Have any arrests been made yet? Why can't FBI catch people making these threats? @nytimes @femfreq #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

Has FBI arrested the CRIMINAL HATERS who threatened @Spacekatgal? If not, why not? WE DEMAND ACTION! #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

EXACTLY! @femfreq Why isn't the Justice Department DOING SOMETHING to arrest these people? #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/nmb4r1KbJJ — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian both CRIMINALLY THREATENED! In the SAME WEEK! The Justice Department must ACT NOW! #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

How dare anyone say a FEMINIST would FAKE A HATE THREAT against herself? Because that NEVER HAPPENS! #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

First, Obama can't stop ISIS. Next, Obama can't stop Ebola. Now Obama can't stop the haters who threatened @femfreq! #GamerGate — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014

Either arrest some people, or else shut the hell up. But this Courageous Feminist Martyr act has become tedious and annoying.

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