We’ve talked about sexual harrassments and death threats in our community a lot around here at NYMG. Alex Layne has a couple of folks about death threats against women in the Open Source community and the fact 3 in 10 women are sexually assaulted at tech conferences. We covered the Jennifer Hepler sh*tstorm that broke out when folks got made because their super straight male protagonist could kiss another male character. And last night we talked about death threats as the “new norm”. The big question is what can we do about this madness. We’ve look at the postings of the women at FatUglyorSlutty and laughed till we cried (or cried till we laughed) at the hatred and misogyny that is directed at women in online gaming space.
Finally the talented and funny folks at Extra Credits have done a new video on the topic that comes complete with suggestions on how we might start to combat some of these problems. I you have a few minutes check it out. It’ll be some of the best spent minutes of the day. Unfortunately I can’t embed it here so you’ll need to go ahead and click through.
