Horrorcow Zoe Quinn / Chelsea Van Valkenburg / Locke Valentine / @UnburntWitch / @Primeape / CrashOverride / Hat Box / Old Uncle Anime - Con Artist, Abuser, Sexual Harasser, Drove Alec Holowka to Suicide.

[Oh Long Johnson]

Now tell them you voted for Trump and see how accepting they are.

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

Disgusting, but 100% expected how this all played out.

 

[AnOminous]

So, is she saying that she's a woman who identifies as a man, or was a man who has been passing as female this whole time?

I don't know what she's saying, but what she is is a woman who if she had as many dicks sticking out of her as have been stuck into her, she'd look like a fucking porcupine.

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

She's more or less saying she's "not a girl" because she has horrible self-image issues, depends on men to validate her to the point that she can't relate with other women at all, and wants to dress in a mildly androgynous way sometimes. She's not identifying as a man, just the vague, nebulous "not a girl", so she doesn't have to transition or do anything different. It's all just a way for her to frame her fairly typical BPD problems as something that gives her maximum asspats and completely absolves her of blame.

 

[D.Va]

So progressive! Even though where she is, it's career suicide to not be trans and she was never going to proclaim "I'm cis" to her champagne socialist buddies.

It's a miracle your circle of transtrenders who have been playing this game for the past decade were so accepting. Wait nah this is tired and the flurry of "I'm trans" outings have lost any and all 'wow' factor now.

 

[AnOminous]

She's more or less saying she's "not a girl" because she has horrible self-image issues, depends on men to validate her to the point that she can't relate with other women at all, and wants to dress in a mildly androgynous way sometimes. She's not identifying as a man, just the vague, nebulous "not a girl", so she doesn't have to transition or do anything different. It's all just a way for her to frame her fairly typical BPD problems as something that gives her maximum asspats and completely absolves her of blame.

You've totally missed the point.

Her announcement has NOTHING to do with any of that other bullshit.

Her Patreon is dwindling, so she needs more attention to get more cash.

Have you read this thread? It is ALL about money with this bitch.

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

You've totally missed the point.

Her announcement has NOTHING to do with any of that other bullshit.

Her Patreon is dwindling, so she needs more attention to get more cash.

Have you read this thread? It is ALL about money with this bitch.

Damn, that actually took a while to dawn on me. Still completely unsurprising.

 

[Wallace]

She's more or less saying she's "not a girl" because she has horrible self-image issues, depends on men to validate her to the point that she can't relate with other women at all, and wants to dress in a mildly androgynous way sometimes. She's not identifying as a man, just the vague, nebulous "not a girl", so she doesn't have to transition or do anything different. It's all just a way for her to frame her fairly typical BPD problems as something that gives her maximum asspats and completely absolves her of blame.

We seriously need a term for this tactic. “To dishonestly assume an identity or political stance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement and/or emotional blackmail.” What’s a good word for that?

 

[LH 909]

We seriously need a term for this tactic. “To dishonestly assume an identity or political stance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement and/or emotional blackmail.” What’s a good word for that?

I thought we agreed on "Patreon Cash Grab"

 

[ln18]

I kind of admire how cynically she painted it. She doesn't change a thing, in any way whatsoever. Appearance, name, pronouns, nothing. It almost feels focus grouped.

 

[Hellfire]

It almost feels focus grouped.

It probably was. Remember that the CON Skype logs showed she would have people help her write emails and even drafted "Zoe's first statemement after thezoepost."

[23/12/2014, 6:19:29 PM] Alex Lifschitz: As Dan mentioned, this is something I've expanded on before, when we were drafting up Zoe's first statement after thezoepost, and everyone was telling her to lay low:

Sometimes she can't help but chimp out like with the Nintendo Watergate thing, but something like this was definitely fed through her current group of sycophants before it went public.

 

[selere]

I think the she was trying to say "user interface design" or "color theory".

Anyway, here's Alex Lifschitz's LinkedIn as of today.

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And his Twitter during happier times:

Ooh, ain't that a bitch?

Here's Zoe Quinn's LinkedIn - you'll notice one consulting gig for a "Famous.af" app is absent (it didn't turn out well):

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The most ironic thing is that the only result of it all was people like Quinn and Lifshits essentially burning all their bridges with the tech industry. Nobody wants to associate with these crazies anymore.

And it's freaking hilarious.

 

[D.Va]

We seriously need a term for this tactic. “To dishonestly assume an identity or political stance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement and/or emotional blackmail.” What’s a good word for that?

transgender

 

[dacote]

Internalized misogyny: the gender

 

[FatNero]

"I'm not a girl." Tell that to your tit job.

 

[NQ 952]

She's more or less saying she's "not a girl" because she has horrible self-image issues

You would have horrible self image issues too if you were a fat, horse faced piece of shit with such a shitty personality that your own family wants nothing to do with you.

 

[Spelling Bee]

Did she watch a single episode of Yuri on Ice and suddenly decide that she's a man like half of Tumblr did?

 

[D.Va]

so

when does Zoe join the rat king?

 

[Charles A. Woodward]

So basically now it's official, she isn't a woman.
If she isn't woman then she also can't be victim of misogyny.

 

[ERROR_ENTRY]

BPD tend to have trouble seeing a clear picture of their identity. In particular, they tend to have difficulty knowing what they value, believe, prefer, and enjoy. They are often unsure about their long-term goals for relationships and jobs. This difficulty with knowing who they are and what they value can cause people with BPD to experience feeling "empty" and "lost".

Chelsea said:
I don’t know what I am yet, but I know what I’m not.

Take your meds, Chelsea.

One of the major problems for the Borderline personality is their marked difficulty in forming and maintaining a fixed self-image that will allow them to "keep their grounding" in the face of developments as they take place. As noted above, the Borderline is often unable to maintain a stable impression of both themselves and others, thus making their affections extremely volatile and making them prone to "ride the waves" of the most recent development in their life all the way to its emotional maximum. Thus to others, Borderlines may appear to suddenly lash out in all kinds of different directions and to change states and moods far more often than could be considered the norm. Severe examples of the Borderline personality may thus run through a succession of seemingly discontinuous states, such as love, hate, anger, insecurity, idealization, and blame, all within the hour. Since they have no fixed self to anchor them and keep them grounded, they are frequently at the mercy of their environment and their own insecurity.

http://www.celebritytypes.com/primer-on-the-borderline-personality-style.php
This is a paid article but I've posted the most important part of it in the spoiler tag:

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Overview

The Borderline personality is characterized by intense, shifting, and variable moods which are only marginally related to outside events. The emotional life of the Borderline personality is inherently unstable and may suddenly erupt in any direction without any system or warning to it. Unlike the Histrionic personality, the Borderline's susceptibility to sudden change is not an affectation or a coordinated means to attract attention. Indeed, it is not just others but also the Borderline themselves who may experience their emotional life as unpredictable and capricious. As a consequence, Borderlines are often said to "lack an inner defining core." However, Borderline personalities are not psychotic; they are still in contact with ordinary reality and do not hear voices, struggle with delusional hallucinations, or exhibit other such symptoms of derangement. Their basic sense of reality has been preserved intact.

Nevertheless, Borderlines still lack the inner cognitive faculties that give structure and continuity to their understanding of the world. Hence it has often been said that Borderlines are "empty inside," since they are incapable of reasonably moderating their moods or remaining affectively stable for long periods of time.

Identity Diffusion and Splitting

As noted, Borderline personalities do tend to form images and impressions of themselves and others, and these images do tend to stand in some relation to objective reality (even though their impressions will frequently be found to be delusional, the Borderline is disturbed, not insane). However, the images that are formed in the Borderline psyche tend to be excessively fluctuating and short-sighted: Since the immediate images are only fleetingly integrated with past impressions of self and other, they tend towards exaggeration and one-sidedness, filling up the cognitive attention of the Borderline to an excessive degree: A small amount of success may set the Borderline on the path towards delusions of grandeur, leading them to feel uniquely gifted, superior, and entitled, until a minor setback pops the balloon and sends the Borderline wailing in a struggle to make sense of a new influx of violent emotivity, prompting the Borderline to feel worthless and incapable of fending for themselves.

In such situations, it is not that the previous success has suddenly been forgotten: Most of the time, the Borderline will remember it perfectly well. Rather it is as if the past experience has lost all cognitive and emotional value, and the Borderline is unable to fall back on it to moderate his present distress. Like water being poured through a sieve, the Borderline is unable to capture and hold on to what took place. Thus, past successes cannot be drawn upon to moderate present failures and vice versa. For the same reason, it will often be seen with Borderlines that even if they are of normal or superior intelligence, they will frequently be unable to learn from their mistakes the way others do, and they may end up committing the same mistakes many times over.

Since the Borderline has no inner anchor by which to counterbalance what is happening in the now with what happened in the past, the psychic organization of Borderlines tends to conform to a pattern known as splitting. Splitting refers to a cognitive tendency to separate or exaggerate value judgments into "all good" and "all bad"; all black and all white.

In psychodynamic theory, the function of a stable self is to moderate and synthesize past and present experiences into a continuous understanding of reality through which new experiences are cognized without the stressful dealings of being completely filled up and thrown about by every new development. By synthesizing judgments over time, the mature individual reaches a worldview characterized by shades of grey, where everyone contains some good and some bad. But since the Borderline personality lacks such a self, their judgments will frequently remain on the level of "all good" and "all bad," and they will frequently be unable to react in a measured manner to outside developments.

An analogy to the split ego-structure of Borderlines can often be observed in immature individuals such as children and young teens: In such individuals, their relative lack of maturity means that they have not yet accumulated sufficient experience to synthesize their value judgments in a nuanced way. Hence, they will often judge their parents to be either all good or all bad. Even the same parent may be all bad for dragging the child to the supermarket, only to suddenly become all good when the parent indulges the child with an ice cream.

Normally, this rather primitive mode of cognition will come to be replaced by more sophisticated means as the person matures, but in the case of the Borderline, these undifferentiated ego-structures tend to endure throughout their entire lives. They may learn to mitigate it somewhat through therapy and stress relief, but in most cases the tendency will always be there.