Katherine Cross
Prominent feminist cancels university talk after threats of a "Montreal Massacre style attack"
Yet it's disgustingly apropos; that mass shooting sought to stop women from being engineers, this threat was against equity in gaming.
And yes, I am furious about Anita's cancelled talk, about the spectre of Marc Lepine being raised over a lecture on *video games*
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The fact that such basic issues of access remain such fraught battlegrounds is absolutely frightening. It terrorises *all of us.*
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The whispers in my circles, especially among women and queer folk, are all some version of "am I next"? Because of video games.
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Consider the fact that GG has a list of "LWs" now. Zoe Quinn was the first, Anita the second... and the rest are *all* women.
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Doesn't matter which. Feminists, ex-GG apostates, people GG obsesses over but has enough self-awareness to know it makes them look bad.
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The perverse damnatio memoriae of the women they despise for speaking their minds is a chilling sociological artifact of this mess.
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So many around me are literally sick of this. Physically ill, from anxiety and fear. Myself included. I'm beyond tired of being scared.
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@quinnae_moon i honestly feel disgusted by the treatment Anita, and the other women are getting. It's pathetic how many people are in -
Whatever the intentions (or identities) of some in GG, the *impact* of this movement is what it is. The terror it created is real.
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@Quinnae_Moon I am shaking with anger and anxiety and I haven't even been targeted. The fear is real, especially for those who have been. -
@quinnae_moon (cont) support of these sick bastards and their psychotic behavior. -
@Quinnae_Moon as a woman that was born in and has lived in Montreal her whole life, that line really shook me in the worst way -
The terror is not the result of propaganda or misunderstanding or obtuseness, but the real impact on all of our lives.
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@Quinnae_Moon Something I've noticed is GG indoctrinated a lot of kids who had no idea what it was really about and just thought it was -
@Quinnae_Moon about defending games and gamer culture. And explaining to a 14 year old they were duped is tough. -
@Quinnae_Moon CC> Icecream for you, because there's enough to go around, damnit. -
@Quinnae_Moon I don’t know if it really matters anymore whether the individual harassers are GG. The fact it exists gives them license. -
One GGer in my mentions the other night literally said I should stop worrying because "no one died." Is that what it's going to take?
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That even a "moderate" would be so callous as to say that speaks volumes about a severe failure of empathy endemic to the movement.
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