Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Only Thing I Have To Say About Gamer Gate:

thisfeliciaday:

So seeing another gamer on the street used to be an auto-smile opportunity, or an entry into a conversation starting with, “Hey, dude! I love that game too!” Me and that stranger automatically had something in common: A love for something unconventional. Outsiders in arms. We had an auto-stepping stone to hurtle over human-introduction-awkwardness, into talking about something we loved together. Instant connection!

But for the first time maybe in my life, on that Saturday afternoon, I walked towards that pair of gamers and I didn’t smile. I didn’t say hello. In fact, I crossed the street so I wouldn’t walk by them. Because after all the years of gamer love and inclusiveness, something had changed in me. A small voice of doubt in my brain now suspected that those guys and I might not be comrades after all. That they might not greet me with reflected friendliness, but contempt.  

I went home and was totally, utterly depressed.

“”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?

“There are people … who want to keep it marginalized…” 

Meet the woman whose game sparked a thousand death threats, her first TV interview on MSNBC.