No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry

IMULTRAHARDCORE · 2014-07-25T20:44:25+00:00

Well I don't work in the games industry but as someone who plays games I've gotten plenty of "rape" and "death" threats over the years. Know what I did about it? Laugh and continue playing the game because I like to play games. I like how her evidence for the reality is just anecdotal. I was kind of expecting some made up statistic but this is even more sad.

UtahStateAgnostics · 2014-07-26T07:51:02+00:00

I've been playing LoL, with its "toxic community" for over a year with a female sn. I was never harassed once, that is unless I sucked, and then the harassment wasn't female-specific. That happens to be the same response I got with either a male or andro sn. If anything it was less harassment with the female sn. What a surprise. I also didn't flaunt femininity or make stupid demands to encourage trolling like some people. There's an anecdote to join Anita's.

Also, that video was funny and not offensive. I love it when people leave me comments like that on YouTube. The sophistry types are much harder to deal with.

It's also funny that the last time I was told to "ESAD" was by an old lady in the comments section of The Atlantic. Clearly it's a toxic community that needs to be cleaned.

UtahStateAgnostics · 2014-07-25T20:20:58+00:00

Not only does she bring up Anita in the first example, but they've taken a page from her book by disabling comments.

xNOM · 2014-07-27T01:54:54+00:00

This article should be entitled "No skull dense enough..."

Underfolder · 2014-07-26T17:28:44+00:00

Another "everything is rape" style article. I'm largely preaching to the choir here, but...

All the problems here fall into two categories. One, women get treated just the same way men do, but some women view this as sexism instead of just general human douchbaggery. And there are a lot of gamer douchbags. If you've been taught to view yourself as a victim, male or female, you'll view everything bad that happens to you as oppression. Or if you've been taught to view douchbaggery for what it is, little more than adult temper tantrums, you get on with your life.

Two, yes, there are a number of guys and girls out there who really are terrible people with no respect for others. The come in both male and female variants. I've long been an advocate of game companies kicking out very bad-behavior players, and the gaming community should do the same IRL. But I don't go claiming that women have ruined the gaming hobby, not only because they've always been part of the gaming community, but it's people who stir up shit that ruin it.

Title	No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry
Author	UtahStateAgnostics
Upvotes	4
Comments	7
Date	July 25, 2014 8:18 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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