*So* awesome. It’s a blog documenting instances of the pervasive harassment of women gamers face in online gaming. (And trust me, the post content above is *tame* in comparison to most.) As Geek Feminism notes, the recent shocked(!) attention paid to Fat, Ugly or Slutty falls firmly into the “How could you not have known” category. Still, it’s a catch-22:
I expect it’s hard for someone not in the thick of things to know what’s going on. My coworkers don’t get the same comments I do, my male gamer buddies don’t have people freaking out or getting, er,excited when they speak on voice chat, my pure white friends don’t get told to go back to their home country (it’s this one, thanks) and we tend edit all the intentionally hurtful stuff we can out of our public environments so as not to give the hurtful folk the satisfaction of public attention but at the same time we render the problem invisible to outsiders. And then when we do talk about it, we’re met at first with incredulity because, well, how could they have known?
