10 Things You Need To Know About The #GamerGate Scandal
4. Men Don't Want To Keep Gaming A "Boy's Club"
The best way to demonstrate this is with evidence. The Fine Young Capitalists, who were unfortunately dragged into this mess, are an organisation that believes there should be more female game developers. Instead of complaining about the current situation, these people have taken the initiative and created a campaign to get female game designers noticed, which is very admirable. To do this however, required money they didnt have, so an Indiegogo campaign was started. On August 22nd they released a pie chart showing the gender ratio between contributors, and 94.1% of them were male. This is strange behaviour from a group that supposedly wants to keep women out of gaming. Furthermore, a large portion of these donations were giving by the videogames board on 4chan, /v/ - which is usually dismissed as a extremely misogynist part of the internet. /v/ even created a very charming little character for the organisation cleverly named Vivian James (Video Games) which has assisted greatly in promoting the campaign, which now has over $40,000.
