{"id":194581,"date":"2014-08-24T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/24\/no-skin-thick-enough-the-daily-harassment-of\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:41:47","slug":"no-skin-thick-enough-the-daily-harassment-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/24\/no-skin-thick-enough-the-daily-harassment-of\/","title":{"rendered":"No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry<\/a><\/p>\n

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thisfeliciaday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This article is heartbreaking. And true.<\/p>\n

There is a reason I throttled back on doing a lot of creative gaming content a few years ago. And why I still avoid taking some jobs in the gaming world when they\u2019re offered to me. And why, when we have a female host on any of our Geek and Sundry gaming shows, we have to monitor the comments on YouTube extra, to remove the many comments that are offensive and pollute our community\u2019s spirit of equality. Because I hate that shit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is an endemic acceptance in the gamer world that \u201cwell, it comes with the territory\u201d when a woman receives threats and harassment and the hateful anonymous internet dialogue is focused on her body and whether they would \u201cdo\u201d her or not. I don\u2019t know why this became okay. It\u2019s a vocal minority that has been given way too much power over the industry dialogue, and I am so happy to see more and more articles like this shining the light on what\u00a0reasonable\u00a0gamer men and women have been conned into accepting as a given.<\/p>\n

NOTHING is a given in this world. And frankly, it taints the art form we so love and keeps it back from becoming more respected and more diverse to not at least TRY to fight it. Gaming deserves more than complacency in this area.<\/p>\n

Even posting this link will cause me to receive hateful Tumblr PMs. I can always tell when something I write gets linked on certain places on the internet (like 4 Chan or a few other forums of troll-hood), because I\u2019ll immediately get dozens of hate mails along the veins of what is posted in this article.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m a lucky one to be prominent enough to have 10 supporters for every hater. I mostly feel sorry for girls and women who aren\u2019t in my position, who may just give up on gaming when they\u2019re too beaten down to fight anymore.<\/p>\n

We have to change that. For the good of what we love doing, gamers! Okay, back to work \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry thisfeliciaday: Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content This article is heartbreaking. And true. There is a reason I throttled back on doing a lot of creative gaming content a few years ago. And why I still avoid … <\/p>\n

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