Men’s Rights Activists: Video gaming should be a “safe space” for male nerds.

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24. So, do you think that the rape and death threats made to Anita Sarkeesian and her family

are "bullshit" and have nothing to do with her criticism of video games?

Sarkeesian driven out of home by online abuse and death threats
Article by Colin Campbell on Polygon

Since the launch of Feminist Frequency's Tropes vs Women in Games, creator Anita Sarkeesian has faced a wall of abuse and threats from enraged critics of her detailed research that highlights misogyny in game fiction.

This week, the abusers drove her out of her own home.

"Some very scary threats have just been made against me and my family. Contacting authorities now," she wrote on Twitter last night.

She later tweeted, "I'm safe. Authorities have been notified. Staying with friends tonight. I'm not giving up. But this harassment of women in tech must stop!"

Earlier today, Sarkeesian shared a particularly disturbing series of threats from one abuser, along with a trigger warning. "I usually don't share the really scary stuff. But it's important for folks to know how bad it gets."

Threats like -
I'll kill your parents too XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I've seen their house

I'm going to your appartment at XXXXXXXX and rape you to death. After I'm done I'll ram a tire iron up your XXXX.

Again via we hunted the mammoth TRIGGER WARNING for the tweets and e-mails contained as evidence