Feminist Video Game Critic Driven Out Of Her Home By Death Threats From Gamers

[el_bryanto]

5. There's something interesting about peoples reactions in this area

Or in comic books or, well, sex where people really seem to get riled up. I can't say for certain, but I think that if one were to post a thread commenting on how women suffer economically by being held back compared to their male colleagues the reaction would be less worked up.

I guess it's because most people aren't bosses. It's easy enough for a guy to say "Well if I were a boss I'd treat everybody fairly, but I'm not." It's easy enough to externalize that patriarchal way of looking at things. When it comes to video games, you don't have that option (assuming you play video games). You can't pretend that you aren't, theoretically at least, part of the problem, if you buy games that have those sorts of images in them. And many games have at least elements of those issues in them; I can certainly think of a few that I have played and even enjoyed.

At a certain point you have to accept your own blinders/flaws whatever they might be - it's the first step towards working against them.

Bryant