{"id":15324,"date":"2014-10-04T20:39:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/social-justice-warriors-and-the-new-culture-war\/"},"modified":"2014-10-04T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T20:39:17","slug":"social-justice-warriors-and-the-new-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/social-justice-warriors-and-the-new-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Warriors and the New Culture War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/99149748305\/social-justice-warriors-and-the-new-culture-war\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/d48ed52870b354bb2f054dc81221e10e\/tumblr_inline_ncxkhl5Dlw1rkw4x1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"subhead\"><strong>Laurie Penny<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1620406896\/downandoutint-20\">Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution<\/a> explains \u201cSocial Justice Warriors\u201d and why they\u2019re winning.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a culture war happening right now. It\u2019s happening in games, in film, in journalism, in television, in fiction, in fandom. It\u2019s happening online, everywhere. And everywhere, sexists, recreational misogynists and bigots are losing.<\/p>\n<p>They are losing, and they don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot, this week and last week, about what it is that\u2019s changing in culture, about what women are doing, and what is being done to us in revenge. I\u2019ve been thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2014\/09\/03\/anonib_nude_photo_site_where_hackers_and_users_treat_women_as_property.html\">what happened to Jennifer Lawrence<\/a>; about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/sep\/03\/gamergate-corruption-games-anita-sarkeesian-zoe-quinn\">what happened to Zoe Quinn<\/a>; about what happened to Anita Sarkeesian; about what\u2019s been happening to every games and culture writer with the gall to be female or to defend feminism; and I\u2019ve been thinking, unavoidably, about what\u2019s happened to me, over the course of three years of harassment and abuse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/04\/social-justice-warriors-and-th.html\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: Laurie Penny, author of Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution explains \u201cSocial Justice Warriors\u201d and why they\u2019re winning. There\u2019s a culture war happening right now. It\u2019s happening in games, in film, in journalism, in television, in fiction, in fandom. It\u2019s happening online, everywhere. And everywhere, sexists, recreational misogynists and bigots are losing. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}