Feminist YouTuber and media critic Anita Sarkeesian is no stranger to online harassment. The eruption of vitriol that hit her from social media after her Feminist Frequency Kickstarter project designed to fund her video project “Tropes vs. Women” is legendary in the video game community.
Recently, she gave a talk at the XOXO Festival (video) about the sort of harassment she has sustained online. In the video, she outlines the nature, degree, and details of the belligerence directed towards her. Some of which is detailed and dangerous enough to have triggered police investigations.
As if to validate the weight of the fusillade of harassment, the video of her talk \ has over 3,000 downvotes and only 2,000 upvotes. There is nothing actively disagreeable in this entire talk except perhaps a call out the bad behavior of (mostly male) gamers on Twitter and other social media.
The misconduct of the video game community against women is becoming more than legendary especially in the wake of harassment against game developer Zoe Quinn (target of the “Quinnspiracy”), the #GamerGate saga, and especially in light of threats directed against Sarkeesian.
Source: Polygon.
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