Katherine Cross
Remember what it took to get us here. Two months of a swarm, culminating in a mass shooting threat and another woman driven from her home.
Obviously I'm glad that mainstream gaming websites are now stampeding to write lengthy denunciations of GG. But it's bittersweet for us too.
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And even that wasn't enough. It was the mainstream press coverage of those events that finally pushed the games press into open condemnation
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@Quinnae_Moon i'm glad they're doing it, but it strike me as so cowardly-- they only speak out after the mainstream press does :( -
@Quinnae_Moon more than two months if we count the GameBomb debacle in july... -
@Quinnae_Moon Am angry and happy and sad and Bitter, all at the same time :D D: U_U T-T -
Two months of gaslighting "both sides"ism, of hoping that silence would save us, of feeling abandoned by the press and industry.
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@Quinnae_Moon fear is a logical reaction... but when you look at the harm ignoring the issue causes, you need to realize what's happening -
Were we meant to be the acceptable sacrifices to this hurricane in the shadows? The latest in a long line? It's hard not to wonder.
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@Quinnae_Moon if I had to be in this position, I'd be horrified I could be set up for horrible, horrible things to happen to me -
Again, I'm glad they're saying something, and much of what they're saying is praiseworthy. But look at what it took. How serious this got.
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@Quinnae_Moon but if my hurt means I can help so many more, several times beyond me? I'd need to do it, no matter what -
@Quinnae_Moon Maybe this will teach them not to go this long. -
We knew from the first week of September that this was not like the seasonal storms of prior harassment. This was new, bigger, collectivised
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@srhbutts@Quinnae_Moon I'm pretty sure they were waiting for their hands to be forced. Which is super cowardly for a journalist. -
@srhbutts@Quinnae_Moon still, at least they finally took a stand. -
@Quinnae_Moon@Spacekatgal@Luceobrien@Megan_Nicolett One positive thing about this nonsense; I discovered some amazing women to follow. -
@Quinnae_Moon There's this air of "Oh shit, it's in NYT. We should maybe do something." -
And here's the core of it: we're right back to the theses behind the "Gamers are Over" articles. These mobs should not be your audience.
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Living in fear of offending or provoking that loud, oft-enabled, minority is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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