gamergate

They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as __ocial Justice Warriors._ (That label was always so weird to me, because how is that an insult? __ocial Justice Warrior_ actually sounds pretty badass.)

The pop culture cliché of the American High School movie, which adapted old archetypes, depicted a social world in which the worst sexists were always the all brawn no brains sports jock. But now that the online world has given us a glimpse into the inner lives of others, one of the surprising revelations is that it is the nerdish self-identifying nice guy who could never get the girl who has been exposed as the much more hate-filled, racist, misogynist who is insanely jealous of the happiness of others.