Aram Zucker-Scharff

“The games that concern me are the games that will never get made— the ones women would make if they saw that anyone had their back. The games that don’t get made because women quietly leave because they feel like nothing will ever change. The games that don’t get made because women don’t think about games as a thing THEY can make, or because they don’t want to leap without knowing that someone will catch them.”

– I’m a “Woman In Games.”

“There’s no point in blaming the internet for this. All the technology has done is to reveal a deeply unpleasant truth: when you remove the social constraints on behaviour that operate in the offline world, then a darker side of human nature emerges snarling into the light.”

– Celebgate: it’s not the internet we need to fix but men’s squalid behaviour.

“”What we are witnessing are deliberately outrageous acts designed to create a spectacle and to instil fear in a target population […] tell me that young women aren’t supposed to look at the harassment of Sarkeesian for being a public figure and get the message: ‘This could happen to you, […] Watch your mouth.’ “”

– Online abuse, leaked nudes and revenge porn: this is nothing less than terrorism against women.

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Yep, female journalists were the only subjects that got trolled on and verbally abused more than men.

More than 5 percent of all Twitter messages sent to female journalists are unfavorable, according to the study. In every other category of distinguished females, however, the number is much lower, at 1 in every 70 tweets.

Aside from being the target of Twitter attacks, female journalists are also the subject of high rates of sexual harassment in the workplace, are paid less than their male counterparts and are underrepresented on editorial boards and in opinion pages.

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– This Is Why Female Journalists Deserve More Respect.