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@femfreq @TomChivers sorry mate, that is horrific but I don't have any context for it whatsoever..?

@TheSimonEvans …and received a fantastically appalling torrent of abuse/rape threats/etc. One of the worst examples of online misogyny.

@TomChivers OK, thanks. I had been vaguely aware of it but, must admit, I have zero interest in video games so didn't read into it. cheers.

@TheSimonEvans am not a diehard gamer but am interested because "women in games" has become a symbolic battleground of wider online misogyny

@TomChivers I can certainly imagine, perhaps prejudicially, that it's a particularly damp little cave full of the stuff.

@TheSimonEvans @TomChivers more women gamers than men now. They just don't feel the need to threaten to rape anyone whilst doing so.

@femfreq @ashleyesqueda Wow. Some people are truly deranged.

@DavidDiFranco @femfreq It’s deeply unsettling to see ANYONE, man or woman, treated like this.

@ashleyesqueda @femfreq I really don't get it… I could NEVER talk to another person like that.

@DavidDiFranco @femfreq To people like that, she’s not a person. Which is a big part of the problem, IMHO

@femfreq This is an actual, according-to-Hoyle violent threat. Nothing theoretical or metaphorical about it. There should be legal remedies.

@mattzollerseitz Have you read Amanda Hess' Pacific Standard piece on how hard it is to get the cops to act even w/ these sorts of threats?

@AlyssaRosenberg No, but I will now.

@mattzollerseitz @AlyssaRosenberg Definitely do. It's a great piece.