Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats

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It's funny: I've seen every one of Anita Sarkeesian's "Tropes Vs. Women" videos about video games, and she's not once called for the banning or games or the "all men are evil" or anything.

She's just said it's prevalent in video games, and she's right. All of the "debunking" videos I've seen nitpick and falsify her stance, and it's absurd.

Heck, we even had a DUer say he was continuously petitioning YouTube to get her banned for "lying" in her videos. All because she criticized his favorite game, I assume.

I don't get angry at any of this. The term "gamer" needs to be retired, I think: most people play video games these days. On their phones, on their computers, on their consoles. And they've never called for a shutdown of the industry, but you wouldn't believe that from the reaction from 4chan and Reddit (and, most likely, a contingent from DU's offshoot site).

I see her videos and I think "Hrm, she's got some good points." And then I start to see the same thing she does when I take a critical look at games and even at my own writing; I've realized I fell into the same "damsel in distress" trope repeatedly in a book I'm working on. So I'm going to re-work the story a bit to not fall into the same patterns.