They just never had it. I might be a bit off with my time frame, because I frequently go camping where i can’t get a signal and lose track of days but....Over the last week or so there have been 3 incidents that I know of;
1. Sock puppet wannabe journalist/documentarist Melissa Morgue has claimed there are no female Comicgaters. I honestly hate calling us that but what other term fits besides “People who want good comics and want to be treated like decent people rather then boogeymen/Phantom Nazi’s.” Its accurate but a bit long.
Now I know for sure that I am;
A. A woman.
B. A critic of current comics and therefore a Pro-comicgate "Fiend.”
C. A follower of their most hated nemesis Diversity and Comics.
D. Reasonably sure that there are other women who are in this “movement.”
For a while my Twitter handle was my real name. With the state I ACTUALLY live in at this moment. It had, and still does have my real picture on it. Do I look like a man? Don’t answer.
I’ve talked with Melissa Morgue before she block-botted a bunch of D&C’s followers. She saw my real face and my real name and still had the audacity to make that claim- WHILE she’s/he’s hiding behind a cutesy cartoon avatar with a fake name. Hypocrite.
2.
PTSD GasLighting. B. Clay Moore and Jody Houser are both trying to convince people that they never had a Facebook discussion about trying to trigger a PTSD attack out of Diversity and Comics, despite there being actual proof of this discussion. First it was “we’re could never collude we’re such a mess hahaha lol lyke omg we’re incapable of something like that.”
Yes. We. Know. That’s why you got caught doing it, because you’re a bunch of inept idiots who dig their ditch deeper with every attempt at denying it. Now the new excuse is “we were JUST saying it, we were never actually going to do it!” So now you’re a bunch of inept cowards who think its funny to fantasize about triggering a mental break in someone who put their life on the line overseas?
Lets leave out the massive stereotype assumption you made about Diversity and Comic’s mental state, and focus on your wanton lack of care about another human beings health. B.Clay Moore, you wanted to follow this man around the Con, in YOUR own words, and GOAD him into throwing a punch, so that you could either later claim he harassed you, or so you would have an excuse to punch back.
Thats some pretty sick thinking. It takes real trash to DREAM about doing something like that.
3. Dan Slott Claims ComicGaters are just a bunch of Pixels on a screen talking shit behind anonymooooooouse names.
Hey Dan--speaking as a woman do you know WHY we need anonymity on the internet? It has to do with the fact that there are insane people in the world.
Again, I was using my real name, and my real face until Diversity and Comics got doxxed and I was reminded of a similar situation i faced on Facebook the year before.
The incident:
Some guy from a forum I frequented tracked down my admittedly--naively public Facebook page and began routing for dirt on me. As soon as i realized what was happening i blocked him and changed my privacy settings. I got lucky, this guy was an idiot and let me know what he was doing inadvertently.
Recalling that event I realized that I was once again putting myself at risk; I changed my Twitter name, and maybe in the future When I feel “safer” or “braver” It will go back. But for now, no thanks.
Diversity and Comics was not lucky. His real name got put out not by his choice but because some psycho doxxed him. That same freak tried to hassle his job. This is why we have “Anonymous” names. Because there are INSANE people out there and they seem to FLOCK to your side.
Does it occur to you that some of your followers don’t even like you? That they follow you to mock the shit you post behind your back? or to feed info to Comicgaters? or that many of them are bought and paid for by the company you work for?
TL;DR version: We’re not super realistic A.I’s, we’re not bought and paid for followers like some of yours probably are-- We’re Women and Men, we’re not going to be gas-lighted by you. IF we’re anonymous its because you created an environment in which we needed to hide ourselves from you. Our opinions DO matter and the more you spit this toxicity the more you dig yourself a figurative grave.
This situation is not going away.