Feminist video game critic forced to leave her home after online rape and death threats

[steve2470]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/27/feminist-video-game-critic-forced-to-leave-her-home-after-online-rape-and-death-threats/

Anita Sarkeesian, creator of an online video series analyzing problematic representations of women in video games, was forced to leave her home on Tuesday after death threats made online against herself and her family, Polygon reported.

“Some very scary threats have just been made against me and my family,” Sarkeesian posted on Tuesday. “Contacting authorities now.”

After confirming she had found a safe place to stay, Sarkeesian posted a screengrab of the threats, posted by a Twitter account calling itself “Kevin Dobson,” which identified her address and her parents, as well as several vulgar threats, including one to “ram a hot tire iron up [her] c*nt”:

“I usually don’t share the really scary stuff,” Sarkeesian wrote on a post accompanying the image. “But it’s important for folks to know how bad it gets.”

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Wow that's really horrible.

[villager]

1. Saw that on Twitter today. Horrifying.

Thanks for posting it here, and getting the word out....

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

[delta17]

3. There are some actual death threats from that guy.

He should be locked up.

[shenmue]

4. Oh my Lord

[Scootaloo]

5. All because she points out sexist tropes in pop media and games

Or, more accurately, because some troglodytic motherfucker is upset that she's doing that.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Nobody here should be surprised at this... Nobody

Search her name here in GD and see what has been said even on DU.

[tkmorris]

7. Please tell me no one has said ANYTHING like that here

I can't believe that. I refuse to.

[niyad]

11. your refusal to believe does not change the sordid facts.

[freshwest]

10. +1

[geek tragedy]

13. One of our resident luminaries said the rape threats were "reciprocation"

for being critical of the gaming industry/culture.

But, misogyny isn't a problem.

[mythology]

8. Hopefully the internet tough guy gets a visit from his local authorities

to press charges for those threats. I suspect some time without freedom will change his tune.

[hunter]

9. Her YouTube channel --

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Edgk9RxP7Fm7vjQ1d-cDA

It's a twisted society we live in.

[niyad]

12. k and r for needed visibility. what a truly sick society this is.

[WCLinolVir]

14. For anyone who says sexism is just ignorance and no one means any harm.

I can only point out all the examples of violent behavior when someone says stop.

[AverageJoe90]

15. Stuff like this pisses me off, not just as a gamer, but a decent human being.

For the record here, to be truthful, I don't quite agree with everything that Ms. Sarkeesian says. Sometimes I'll find something that we differ on. But honestly, this kind of thing looks gamers as a whole look bad.....but more than that, I think we can all agree that nobody deserves to be threatened with rape, or even *murder* just because you disagreed with them on something. Such behavior is unacceptable and should be condemned.

Honestly, FUCK YOU, Kevin Dobson. FUCK YOU.

[MohRokTah]

16. I disagree with her take on video games and most of the time she's never played the games she...

comments on.

That said, NOTHING JUSTIFIES THIS BULLSHIT AGAINST HER!

These people need to be found and prosecuted, then imprisoned for many years.

[Hayabusa]

17. Even as a critic of hers, that's fucked up.

Hope they catch the guy that did it. Even if it was their idea of a sick joke, that goes way, way too far.