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i don't think many people who played games at the time were heavily invested in gamergate, but the gamergate gamers were a very loud and toxic minority. that's often who is being talked about when you say gamer, not the average person who plays games. it's the difference between gamer (neutral) and gamer (derogatory)
I literally don't call myself a gamer anymore because I don't want to be associated with that trash.
They can have the term, quite frankly, playing video games isn't a personality but I like the idea of clearly identifying the people that think it is.
I don't know how I feel about it.
I probably game too much, even as an elderly old man. I still call myself a gamer AND want Steve Bannon and all his diet nazis to die in the most humiliating and embarrassing way possible... crushed by frozen poop falling from a plane sounds fun.
This is what nazis do. Take good or innocuous things and pervert them. All they do is destroy.
I'll still keep calling myself a gamer while respecting your desire to distance yourself from scum.
that's a good mindset to have