My friend Quinn told me about a folder on her computer called, “The Ones We’ve Lost.” They are the letters she’s gotten from young girls who dream of being game developers, but are terrified of the environment they see. I nearly broke into tears as I told her I had a folder filled with the same. The truth is, even if we stopped Gamergate tomorrow, it will have already come at too high a cost.
Rape and death threats are terrorizing female gamers. Why haven’t men in tech spoken out? – The Washington Post (via brutereason)
We mentioned it before, women ARE genuinely discouraged from pursuing jobs in the game industry. It is a simple, provable fact.
Also, those women who already work there have to either keep quiet out of worry about their careers or ultimately decide to leave after experiencing too much harassment or pressure to create things against their beliefs.
So yeah, tell me again how if we want media free of sexualization of women, we should make our own comics/games/etc. How if it was a problem, it would solve itself by now. How women just don’t want to actively participate in any change out of laziness. Try to say it to me, I dare you.
~Ozzie
