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Gaming's MeToo moment: male fragility versus women's fundamental rights
The latest turn in the Gamergate sage: Zoe Quinn (previously) outed their former partner, game dev Alec Holowka as a sexual and emotional abuser, which prompted others to come forward with their own stories of abuse at Holowka's hands, which led to Holowka being kicked out of his Night in the Woods game project -- and shortly thereafter, Holowka committed suicide.
Though Holowka made a point of telling people not to blame Quinn or the other women who came forward for his death, the shitty men of Gamergate -- who already consider Quinn to be the living embodiment of the antichrist -- launched a campaign of terror and harassment so extreme that Quinn has resigned from Twitter.
Central to Gamergate's indictment of Quinn is that she should have given more considerations to Holowka's emotional health before coming forward to reveal the ways he'd abused her.
Laurie Penny (previously) reaffirms her status as a national treasure in her Wired op-ed on the matter, pointing out the asymmetry of this concern for male fragility, and how it never extends to an equivalent concern for the much more severe emotional, physical and economic toll born by women who survive the abuse doled out by these broken men.
And the men are broken: toxic masculinity is a thing. Hurt people hurt people. Trauma, not contagion, is the source of radicalization. Any solution to sexism and misogyny will involve helping men as well as women, because men, not women, are the primary reservoirs of misogyny. Read the rest
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