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Originally Posted by wittynickname
This isn't unusual. I can't recall the exact person/story, but just recently there was a woman who works in the video game industry who called out the video game industry's sexism, exclusion of women (even though they make up approximately half of all gamers), etc, and she started receiving such a large number of threats that she had to contact the police.
I've heard it said that if you read the comments section of any article about feminism, they explain why feminism is necessary, and it's really pretty true. For every grown up and enlightened man who agrees that women should have equality, you have at least one neanderthal idiot who thinks women are at fault for most of the problems in the world.
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As photon mentioned, here is an article with a good explanations of Anita Sarkeesian and the sexism she has been enduring.
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As a result, she has suffered literal years of online abuse like denial-of-service attacks, rape threats, Web vandalism, and attempts at “doxing” or distributing personal information online, not to mention unceasing abuse in the form of tweets, emails, and internet comments. Some astonishingly awful creatures even made a video game consisting of nothing but punching Sarkeesian’s face into oblivion. What crime has Sarkeesian committed to deserve this treatment? Merely speaking up about the fact that, y’know, women aren’t portrayed all that well in video games.
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http://goo.gl/yCqLix
And here is a followup from someone who fully admits he was once one of the worst offenders, and while he now sees that it is wrong, he understands where it comes from.
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Sarkeesian was, in a lot of ways, the lighting of the fuse that finally exploded with Zoe Quinn. Together these women represent everything that threatens these boys - women entering their space, being sexual but not sexual with them, forcing them to examine the seedy and anti-woman power fantasies that are playing out in too many games. The clubhouse has been invaded and it's getting redecorated and nobody asked them first.
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http://badassdigest.com/2014/08/31/w...ergate-gamers/
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 09-03-2014 at 11:45 AM.
Reason: Fixed link distorted by profanity filter - thanks for noticing Pho
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