Aram Zucker-Scharff

Campus nightmare: female students on the rise of sexual harassment:

“I found photos of me in pyjamas in my bed on their WhatsApp group. ‘Hah! Look what we did to her last night!’ They did the same to one of my friends and she wasn’t wearing anything. She was sleeping and they went in at three in the morning and took a photo of her. They thought it was really funny, but she was devastated.”

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“Every one of my friends has a street harassment story. Every woman I know acts differently at night, makes different choices to minimize the risks of physical or sexual assault. […]

“Not every man is threatening, not every man harasses women on the street. But I have to treat every man as a threat because I don’t know who is a danger. Enough.”

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– Enough. 

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Of course there are two sides to the situation. (As Fred Zeleny pointed out, there are probably more like five.) And I’ve read Ralph Koster’s AMA (which gives key insight into the average GamerGater’s perspective). But one of those sides is sending death and rape threats to women in game dev, and that is flatly unacceptable.

To be clear: I don’t think every person calling themselves part of GamerGate is evil. I think a lot of you probably do care about games journalism, and while I think you’re misguided, that doesn’t mean you’re all monsters.

But as long as you use the term “I’m part of GamerGate” to mean “I want better ethics in video game journalism”, then you are choosing to stand under the same umbrella as the people who use the term “I’m part of GamerGate” to mean “I will harass female game devs into quitting the industry”.

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– The “good name” of GamerGate. 

Tim Burton Mary Poppins? Why? What, is Mary Poppins really an escaped member of a group of black-umbrella wielding magic Illuminati intent on taking over the world through brain-washing children? And only she, her spoonful of magic sugar, and Depp-voic…