{"id":192565,"date":"2014-09-06T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/06\/i-have-met-some-of-the-most-amazing-women-i-have\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T13:08:47","slug":"i-have-met-some-of-the-most-amazing-women-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/06\/i-have-met-some-of-the-most-amazing-women-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have met some of the most amazing women I have ever known through the game industry. Larger-than-life, funny, warm, sweet, razor-sharp, overeducated women, the kind who laugh too loudly in quiet rooms. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve heard most of them laugh. One of them IMed me today about how she was leaving the industry and she couldn\u2019t handle the idea of disappointing me but she just couldn\u2019t take it any more, and I told her it was okay, it\u2019s fine, self-care is so important, because it is.<\/p>\n

The truth is that after our conversation ended, I put my head in my hands and cried.<\/p>\n

I could tell you stories about the voices we\u2019ve lost, the women we\u2019ve scarred, the people we\u2019ve left behind. I want to, but I\u2019m not sure you\u2019d get it. I tweeted earlier today, We should have a war memorial for all of the women we have lost to this. We should lay flowers and grieve and see our reflections in stone. And I meant it. I wish there were a way to honor the people our industry has wronged, and a way to visualize the enormity of what we have lost because of it\u2014 some representation of the gap between what games are and what they can be, and the pieces of the bridge between that have fallen away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Elizabeth Sampat writes on women in the games industry, spinning off Zoe Quinn\u2019s situation. Read the whole thing.<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s a shotgun blast of a piece. The last line of the whole thing is my takeaway from the last few weeks. (via kierongillen<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have met some of the most amazing women I have ever known through the game industry. Larger-than-life, funny, warm, sweet, razor-sharp, overeducated women, the kind who laugh too loudly in quiet rooms. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve heard most of them laugh. One of them IMed me today about how she was … <\/p>\n

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