Okay, how about the opinion of someone who has been a part of Gaming Discussion and Off-Topic almost daily for three and a half years then?s69-5 said:Fourth, you don't visit "gaming discussion" and took one cursory look at it and declared your statement to be truth and mine to be dubious at best - even though I've lived in Gaming Discussion for 5 years now... okay then.
More than three-quarters of the threads made since 2012 which have involved feminism, sexism, or "social justice" topics in gaming have come from people trying to discredit Anita Sarkeesian or otherwise trying to "shout down" those they consider to be "SJWs". A precious few have been made trying to actually discuss the subject matter and content of things like Sarkeesian's videos, but those are all inevitably derailed by people coming in trying to discredit her on a personal level. Even the topics we get like "should there be more women in gaming?" tend to just be thinly-veiled attacks on "feminist" ideology. It is incredibly rare that we actually get one of those threads from someone who is a feminist, because they've all spent a damn near constant two years getting "shouted down by the opposition".
And in every single one of those threads, hyperbole is used in quite an astounding way to make it seems like this entire website is filled with nothing but indignant "SJWs" who are calling everyone else "misogynists" for daring to speak up against them and trying to "censor" the other side of the discussion; claims which any "cursory look" could easily disprove. (And I won't even get into the criminal abuse and misuse of the term "censorship" that has happened over the past two years.)
There are very few people on this website who have ever expressed open support for the types of "feminism" that the pro-GamerGate people seem so terrified of. Many more of us simply jump into threads to try getting people to refrain from attacking people rather than their arguments, or to ensure that they're actually using factual information and aren't simply taking something as fact because it validates their confirmation bias.
EDIT: This is all from the perspective of being completely separate from the R&P forum, of course. I don't go there, so maybe it's a slightly different story there. But in GD and OT, feminists (the likes that people are saying are coming out from around every corner at least) are in very short supply.