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1  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: May 12, 2015, 09:07:24 PM
Published on May 11, 2015 is "Jade - Positive Female Characters in Video Games"
Unfortunately the game Beyond Good and Evil™ is only for Windows so users of alternative Operating Systems(including SteamOS) don't have much luck, so I suggest you to watch a Let's Play of the game, instead of playing it in such a case.
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"TIME magazine has named Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian to the 2015 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world."
2  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: May 03, 2015, 01:35:04 PM
Censorship of these games?
No, just learning about tropes.
This is from "Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women"
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This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of it’s more problematic or pernicious aspects.
This is from "Damsel in Distress (Part 3) Tropes vs Women"
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Over the course of this series I will be offering critical analysis of many popular games and characters, but please keep in mind that it’s both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy a piece of media while also being critical of it’s more pernicious aspects.

con artist.
I think it's useful for all Bitcoin members who have replied or are going to reply to this thread(in the hope of staying on-topic, and not shaming the thread as a form of "Bitcoin community acceptable replies"-thing) to at least having watched the episode "A Touch of Class" from the BBC television sitcom "Fawlty Towers", to sharpen your definition of what a con artist is. Mostly to avoid confusion, and watching a video to see somebody show how a con artist is by acting may be more useful than reading a  Wikipedia article, but in case you want to know that as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

Did any of you before feel you began to trust her, because you liked the idea of what she might release with her kickstarter?(then you donated to her, afterwards you regretted it) In that case what did you expect her to do, what was your big disappointment with her work in regards to your expectations?
3  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: April 22, 2015, 02:07:45 PM
Published on Mar 31, 2015 is a more recent video of Feminist Frequency: "The Scythian - Positive Female Characters in Video Games"

Want the Bitcoin community to shine a bit? Provide valid criticism(either positive, negative or both) to that video and back your arguments please. If the video is worth anything to you or if you feel it wasted your time then please say so, and please explain why.
4  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do girls use Bitcoin ? on: April 22, 2015, 01:49:10 PM
Shame on all of you
Scared of women getting interested in Bitcoin?

Is this the end of the Crypto-Patriarchy as we know it? We can't both be only a brotherhood and at the same time not letting any new people into the community.
5  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 29, 2015, 12:18:08 AM
I've asked you twice if you are going to email Anita to add a bitcoin address to her website because I want to donate $5.  But, you completely ignore the bitcoin donation part.  Your thread says "Donating in Bitcoin".
Yes and I watched with anticipation when you first entered the thread, asking why people would donate to such an "extremist".
I don't think Anita Sarkeesian is an extremist in any regard. Do you think she is an extremist and is that the reason you now want to donate $10 in Bitcoin to her? Please explain why you want to donate to her.

If you are only replying to the title of this thread you don't have enough information to make an on-topic reply, so you first need to read my #1 post. Here I quote a part of it and underline what I think you should give extra notice to:
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This thread is dedicated to if it's possible to give donations to Feminist Frequency to support the cause, what the community here feels about it, if it's just 'ok', indifference or if it would be great. Maybe there will be much interest or little.
The world needs a little more love and Bitcoin certainly needs it too. I may ask her if she would like to start accepting it, maybe or maybe not depending on how the thread goes what the community thinks of her work.

If I wrote a letter to Anita Sarkeesian where I mentioned that you insult me continuously because I even brought the topic up at the same time saying that you want to donate $10 to her, don't you see how absurd that is? Of course she will assume, just like you will assume and I will assume that you are only doing this to stop a discussion.

You have among other things questioned the validity of this thread being in Project Development and the reason is accepting a lot more people into the Bitcoin community and that means becoming more welcoming to people, not shaming and insulting them with nebulous terms such as "SJW".

Or is that what the Crypto-Patriarchy is about? Is bitcointalk.org a "Crypto-Patriarchy"?
I think backwards-stoneage attitudes are damaging to Bitcoin. If you don't think so let's have a discussion.
If you want this thread to stop existing then I believe you are beyond hope and that the only people you can reply to are "your own". Those who only agree with you, that could make you enter an all-offtopic era of posting here.
6  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 23, 2015, 03:14:44 PM
http://time.com/3732203/the-30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet/

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Amid the #Gamergate controversy, this Canadian-American feminist became perhaps the most public critic of sexism in the gaming community (via her blog, YouTube channel and Twitter account), which earned her thousands of fans—and almost as many enemies. (She says she received death threats.) More recently, her blog, Feminist Frequency, got funding from Intel’s initiative to promote diversity in tech.—S.B.

7  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 23, 2015, 02:57:34 PM
You are an imbecile SJW.
Yes, that's an insult, yes a personal attack on me. Congrats for insulting me, well don't feel like you earn a medal, because your friends here have already insulted me first. Now go to some other thread and do something useful, preferably on-topic.

As for "SJW", is this your personal definition? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_justice&oldid=651319188
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The term "social justice warrior" has been used to describe people who work for social justice issues, with Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. cited as examples.[62]

In internet culture, the term has been used as a pejorative for someone campaigning against things they perceive to be instances of racism, sexism, homophobia or other social injustice. Frequently initialized as "SJW", it is used to accuse opponents of sanctimony,[63] to insinuate pretense,[64][65] as a pejorative,[66][67][68] and as a general shorthand for a person believed to be overreacting to social issues. Although most commonly used to cast negative implications, some have reappropriated the term as a neutral or positive source of identity.[69][70]
If somebody was overreacting it was most of you who reacted in anger about her and your claims that she has stolen your kitties and dogs by her speaking out on the internet about sexism in video games.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/new-chat-logs-show-how-4chan-users-pushed-gamergate-into-the-national-spotlight/

+ignored. Don't post offtopic things and don't insult others! Else you will be ignored!
8  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 11, 2015, 06:06:59 PM
Quote from: jimbobway
If you can't do this you are an incapable social justice warrior
What do you mean by the term "social justice warrior"? What are they? How is a person that identifies as a "social justice warrior"?

but the fact is that you did not offer direct resistance to the arguments in the first 4 pages.
What do you mean with "direct resistance"? An example of where I did not show "direct resistance" might be useful. You could also call my replies "replies" but that's up to you how you wish to approach this.
If you wish reference somebody's post and then an additional reference to the reply I gave.
9  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 09, 2015, 08:43:52 AM
If I encounter more fallacies I'll include them here. Attacks against my person is irrelevant if you attack me instead of my arguments.
Anita is a liar, a hypocrite, and she doesn't even like video games by her own admission. Her entire project is carefully calculated to milk money for cultural Marxists like yourself.
Ad Hominem.
10  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: March 03, 2015, 03:05:33 PM
Would it be a good idea to ask Fem Freq to accept Bitcoin?  Maybe tell her to add a donations address on her homepage.
Well if you are unsure I think it might be best to ask her if she knows about and/or what she thinks about Bitcoin.
11  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: February 17, 2015, 12:11:49 PM
While I may not advocate her position in regards to gaming and sexism, I believe she has every right to ask for donations for any cause she sees fit, be it in USD or Bitcoins. Donations are voluntary, you don't have to donate if you do not support her position.

@OP Why don't you ask them directly if they would accept donations in Bitcoins? They have a contact form on their website.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/contact/

In my opinion, the more people accept Bitcoin for any purpose, the merrier.
Thanks for contributing the first neutral post on the subject on this thread. That it had to take 12 pages is slow progress, but still it is progress. I'm not losing my hope for the 1st decentralized cryptocurrency that was created in 2009! Smiley
12  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: February 15, 2015, 09:31:01 PM
I got censored on bitcointalk.org.(a single post of mine that was deleted from this thread is a form of silencing of speech)

Bitcoin is going to need a lot of work. We're definitely not there yet.
What I've seen is a lot of misinformation floating about in this part of the Bitcoin community and it looks like any discussion of diversity here would fall on deaf ears. Well at least I know I'm not gonna try to discuss with anybody here because it's literally a "boys club".
13  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do girls use Bitcoin ? on: February 13, 2015, 04:56:10 PM
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Any user blatantly claiming to be female
That notion is what is the very basis for sexism in the Bitcoin community, at least the bitcointalk.org community. Disagree? Send me a PM.
If you start having more confidence in somebody because of their gender you should consider the problem being in you, not in others! So stop shaming women/girls into hiding their gender. It is not acceptable.

If you give free coins....anyone beyond boundary of gender will use it.

So true.
not a lot of Girls use Bitcoin simply because they probably find it hard to learn , and beside girls don't really like technology and those stuff , at least not more then the boys .
What do you think about this claim here http://www.meetup.com/Women-in-Bitcoin/events/219380610/ that
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Thought you might be interested to see that Stellar users are 34% women (compared with about 5% of bitcoiners)
says somebody called Eva G.
Though one may wonder where the source for that is, and also that Bitcoin still has the largest community, so comparing an Altcoin to Bitcoin shouldn't that community also be comparable to Bitcoin in community size as well?

Regardless of the above claim being true or false, do you know of any other Altcoin where there is a closer to 50% 50% ratio of men and women being part of the community?
14  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do girls use Bitcoin ? on: February 13, 2015, 04:37:34 PM
Are men also welcome to attend this meeting? http://www.meetup.com/Women-in-Bitcoin/events/219380610/

Because I see at least 2 men there being part of it.
15  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do girls use Bitcoin ? on: February 13, 2015, 04:18:50 PM
Are girls / women interested in Bitcoin ?
Your opinion ?
Looks like Women in Bitcoin on Facebook is somewhat active. Check out their latest post Jan 15 2015.

Doesn't look like stellar.org is using Bitcoin but is just a fork of Bitcoin(or fork of another Litecoin, no reference topic here on bitcointalk.org yet that I've noticed), like any other Altcoin...right?

Still when looking at the about page for Stellar some developers who have prior experience with Bitcoin work there.
16  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: February 07, 2015, 05:10:15 PM
Now on the general topic of Women in Bitcoin which probably needs to be solved to some degree before Sarkeesian will even respond to any request of her addressing Bitcoin at all, is this:

Andreas M. Antonopoulos may not be a feminist but he wants women to feel welcome in the Bitcoin space(and I hope some of you do too, and are not only speaking up at Reddit but also here on bitcointalk.org) and that is worthy of respect.

This video "Q&A with Andreas Antonopoulos - Bitcoin in 2015 and beyond" published Jan 8, 2015 http://youtu.be/1DG98FH1qlo?t=55m36s links directly to the topic about Women and Bitcoin.

If you find any corrections or if you proofread or heard something in the video that was said and that isn't found in my transcript after 55:36 then please let me know so I can correct it, pm me about it then. "<helpmetranslate>" is one part where I didn't hear what somebody said so if you heard it please let me know so I can add it. I would like to get help so the transcript is totally alright.
I created this transcript myself since I didn't find any other on the world wide web:

@paulbuitink at 55:36 "we're almost running out of time but I'd just wanted to address the whole situation with women and Bitcoin, I know it's one of your hot topics Andreas <helpmetranslate> example where we don't only see guys but also female entrepreneurs and developers participating. We have Annet here so maybe you guys discuss among yourselves how come there is such a limited amount of women in the whole of Bitcoin sphere."

Andreas M. Antonopoulos at 56:08 "Annet, why don't you go ahead?"

Annet de Boer @BitKassaNL at 56:10 "Yes. Well I think it's in a way expected that women are in less numbers than men because I think the audience that attracts to Bitcoin are either way tech savvy people and in that area women are already less...visible than men and well we have the groups of traders that are interested in Bitcoin and I think that's another area where women are not so well represented. People who are looking to invest in promising startups for example, that's another area where women are not so well represented so I think the whole subject is the sum of all the parts where women will tend to be less visible than men, but they are there, I know they are there. I'm not the only one, fortunately. I also would like to thank you Andreas that you as one of the role models in Bitcoin have an active opinion on diversity and I saw your website that you don't even attend/speak at conferences when they don't adopt an anti-harassment policy for example and I think that's very good to raise awareness amongst other people, maybe make it a bit more welcome also for women to come and take a look"

Andreas M. Antonopoulos at 57:59 "Yeah, thank you so much Annet, I have to say that my experience with this has been rather disappointing because once I started talking about this topic I got two reactions: One was extremely hostile response from some of the male personalities in the space including death threats and threats of violence and at the same time I heard from literally dozens of women telling me about their negative experiences where when attending a Bitcoin meetup or Bitcoin conference they have been harassed, dismissed, ridiculed, sexually assaulted, sexually propositioned and treated in a way that is truly appaling and disgusting and awful. Part of the issue here as Annet said is that finance, libertarians and technology are already areas where women are underrepresented but there are also areas where some of the men in the space are actively hostile and/or exploitative and/or predatory towards women and what that means is that the experience of the average person who gets into Bitcoin is very different depending on whether they are male or female. Males who enter Bitcoin generally find it to be an exciting space full of opportunity and interesting people and women who enter Bitcoin go to these meetings and they are received in a way where they are objectified, talked down to, touched inappropriately, propositioned, asked for dates, commented on their looks, all kinds of behaviour that is really juvenile at best and dangerously predatory in some cases and for the most part the organisers of these events turn a blind eye, even when they are notified that these things they tend to re-victimize the victim and eventually push women out of this space so it's not just a matter of women being underrepresented, it's also a matter of this being a space that is actively hostile to women in many cases. I would encourage people if you have a conference, certainly if it is a conference I'm attending, I do not attend conferences unless there is not just a published anit-harassment policy but one that is enforced which has a reporting structure that if someone is being harassed or they experience this kind of behaviour they will report it to someone who is trusted, someone who will take action in a specified manner and will follow the policy that excludes the harasser and not punish the victim again. Most of these incidences don't go reported because the people who are exploited are not in a position of power in this industry and if they say anything they end up getting kicked out of the group. I think this is a relatively toxic environment. It has changed a bit in the last year, as Bitcoin goes mainstream, its value become more mainstream as well and gradually we are seeing more and more people from different parts of life: male, female, different races, different ethnicities, different sexual orientations, people from different social status or economic status joining Bitcoin. We are seeing the diversity increase gradually, but it's still very much a white male 30-45 dominated area and so we need to be aware of what image we give to the outside world and how welcoming we are or how hostile we are to those that are trying to join because Bitcoin only succeeds if we make it as diverse as possible. That's a topic I really care about and as I've said before I just simply about a year and a half ago I took a pledge and said 'I'm not going to any conference unless they have, and in force a sexual harassment policy'. It is very easy to do that if you speak at conferences, you should expect that. You will notice that I will not go to certain very large, well-known conferences happening and if you wonder why I'm not at these conferences usually it's because the organisers of the conference either refused to implement such a policy or make a joke of it and don't really enforce it or because the line-up is almost entirely male dominated. One of these conferences I went to recently took some of the best speakers in the space and put them all in a single panel called Women in Bitcoin. Here you had VCs and investors and lawyers, smart contracts specialists and all kinds of bright people who had lots of interesting things to talk about but they were put on a panel to talk about the fact that they were female. That's not diversity. That's a joke."

@paulbuitink at 1:03.32 "Let's hope that Satoshi is a woman then"
Andreas at 1:03:36 "I like to think that she is at a conference and maybe you'll meet her."

@JopHartog at 1:03:42 "Great"

@paylbuitink at 1:03:44 "Any more questions?"
Andreas M. Antonopoulos at 1:03:47 "I can tell you I get a lot of death threats and hate mail for saying that too"

@paylbuitink at 1:03:54 "Well I think it's <helpmetranslate> first it's good for the Bitcoin sphere also to get more <helpmetranslate> adoption and get a better ambience within the industry. Any other questions maybe from Annet <helpmetranslate> before you wrap up?

@JopHartog at 1:04:14 "No, thank you."

@paylbuitink at 1:04:16 thanks Andreas and then asks about Andreas book.

Corrections and help in the transcript is welcome.
17  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: January 31, 2015, 01:14:35 PM
People like Anita Sarkeesian are an insult to real feminists, stop trying to idolise her, I'm amazed you've kept this thread going for so long.
To real feminists like yourself? Do you have data or you only want to rant? Feminist Frequency hasn't only received contributions from Anita Sarkeesian. Jonathan McIntosh has also contributed. Did you watch 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male?
18  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: January 27, 2015, 03:10:53 PM
Better post this timemark https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gAyncf3DBUQ#t=434

No one could scientifically draw a connection between violence and games and suddenly, with sexism it's supposed to be the case, not because any of these feminazis did science on it, but just because they say so and they play the part of a pseudo-victim? Seriously, GTFO.

People getting pissed at your stupidity has nothing to do with you being or not being a woman or a man. It's got to do with you being stupid.

Femnazis are not interested in science, so don't bother them with facts, data and stuff like that. Like any other fanatics they are victimizing themselfs, demonizing the enemy and attempting to attract as much attention as they can for braiwashing the rest. Anita Sarkeesian tried to extend this sceme to one of the last bastions of manfolk but thanks to God she failed miserably. Certainly she and her followers don't want to give up on this "profitable" market segment.
It's sexist to insult others with the term "Femnazis". This thread started asking if you were interested in donating and you reply with insults. I have no reason to reply to you here and if you wanna talk to me do it in PM. Ignored.
19  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: January 27, 2015, 03:08:41 PM
I think that it has been already stated before that tjohej can't even assimilate the ideology she is supporting. I can't understand why people try to have some constructive discussion with her after she's proven over and over that she isn't even able to type down 2 different sentences without contradicting her own self or without going extremely out of context and derails to prove a point, but also fails miserably to do so. Let's bring an end to this thread. There's no reason to keep bringing it back from the dead since discussion here has nothing to offer.
Ignored for going offtopic and assuming stuff about my person. Go to the other thread I opened if you want to be ontopic. Being a good Ad Hominem candidate doesn't make it acceptable for you to post here and assuming stuff about my person without replying to the topic at hand.
Do you even know how to read a first post? If you are not interested you don't post in a thread, but feel free to ask whomever you want to close the thread. If the community thinks this thread is worthless then I assume it should be closed, if it is damaging to even mention "feminism".
20  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: January 18, 2015, 04:01:41 PM
Do you know biology?
Do you know that this thread is about Anita Sarkeesian and not biology? Do you also know that Anita Sarkeesian analyzes video games and not biology? Maybe learn a thing or two before posting.

What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target Published on Jan 14, 2015 by ABC News

There's also the 25 Male Gamer Privileges video by Jonathan McIntosh. Very educational. To solve a problem you first need to understand it.
25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male Published on Dec 2, 2014
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