For years, the online gaming community has faced criticism for its often abysmal treatment of women. But even more evidence of this systemic sexism has emerged in recent weeks, prompting a wave of denials and counterattacks from a huge number of gamers. Their vitriol, in turn, provides an excellent example of what crowdsourced silencing of already marginalized voices can look like—and how chillingly effective that silencing can be. Just a few days after credible, violent threats drove independent critic Anita Sarkeesian out of her home in late August, Depression Quest developer Zoë Quinn withstood a deluge of online harassment, which included the publication of her phone number along with nude photographs.
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Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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So gamers brought Anita and Zoes' deceitful, greed motivated behaviour on themselves? Seriously?
Yeah, good luck with that.
In the article, I read the line about women who act as a gaming critic is viewed corrupted, but I don't believe this because many guys and girls often focus more on what the written or verbal content is rather then the speaker.
Somebody needs to silence some women. I remember a day when the videogame scene didn't have anyone whining about anything. Now it's everywhere you look. I don't like this new crybaby culture that has been forming over the past decade or so.
the Silencing of Women ? hmmm what ? go and see a twitch streaming by a women, these gender talks/scream/yells like a mothe#$^fueckr! where is the silencing ?
Women like attention and receive more of it and this is no different, in the end they want the same rights as men so knowing that lets begin by: women Shut the hell up or I will tea-bag-you! :D