Aram Zucker-Scharff

“It’s all about freedom, she said, echoing everyone who thinks there’s nothing ironic about claiming that a country that’s “free” allows people’s bosses to dictate what medical care is available to them through insurance.”

– “Law Will Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using Whore Pills.”

“”It’s not just bros and jocks and finance dudes and yuppies and Christians and Republicans who are shitty to women. Being part of a counter-cultural or progressive community does not give you a free pass to be shitty to women without being called out on it. We need to hold our own communities to an even higher standard than we hold those in the opposition, we need to welcome criticism, and we to realize that the ones who call out shitty behavior in these communities are not the threat, but that those who protect it and shield it from criticism are.””

– On sexism, sexual assault and the threat of the ‘non-bro’.

“”One of the most disheartening things I have thus far taken from Gamergate is the idea that there is no place for me, the liberal pro-LGBTQ rights feminist, in various corners of the gaming world. It’s the idea that I cannot regain what I lost when I digested the message that gaming was not for little girls.””

– An in-depth, nuanced, thought-out examination of what’s going on for women in gaming right now… in Playboy. Who would have expected it?

“”One of the most disheartening things I have thus far taken from Gamergate is the idea that there is no place for me, the liberal pro-LGBTQ rights feminist, in various corners of the gaming world. It’s the idea that I cannot regain what I lost when I digested the message that gaming was not for little girls.””

– An in-depth, nuanced, thought-out examination of what’s going on for women in gaming right now… in Playboy. Who would have expected it?