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This wasn’t about trying to have a reasoned, even passionate debate about her views on games, this was about telling a woman that. The mere idea that she might express an opinion about the way that women are portrayed in games is apparently so abhorrent to some people that they felt that the only appropriate way to respond was to take away her voice. If they couldn’t intimidate her into silence with threats of sexual violence and online harassment then by cracky they were going to try to sabotage any attempt to make this happen.“Women across the internet are attacked for speaking out on a variety of topics but there seems to be a particular entitlement- based rage directed at any woman who dares to say anything critical about video games” – Anita Sarkeesian, speaking to Games. Industry. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Not only did Sarkeesian make her initial goal of $6. Nice try haters, didn’t work, might as well go back to whatever festering hole you crawled out of, right? As it turns out. Instead of trying to shut the project down, the attention has turned into a campaign of hate against Sarkeesian herself. Trolls Vs. Haters. Before we get too deep into this, we should probably define some terms. Because while a great deal of the harassment directed against Anita Sarkeesian is about her being a woman and vocal critic of misogyny in entertainment, there are plenty of people who have leapt into the mix who get off on shocking people and being horrible on the Internet. On the one hand, we have the trolls. These are folks who will spew venom in any direction in hopes of provoking a reaction out of somebody. They’re mostly interested in being disruptive and derailing a conversation into a dust- up. Some of them may well have a particular agenda – derailing discussions of misogyny, for example, but plenty of others are in it because, well, why not? Attention is the currency of the Internet and there is no easier way to get attention than to say something shocking or disgusting. Many trolls show up strictly for the lolz – they couldn’t care less about Tropes vs. Women, they’re just enjoying the chance to dogpile on somebody who happened to be noticed by the Internet Hate Machine.“Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwiiiiiiich!”Haters, on the other hand, make it personal. Haters will make a point of attacking an individual and, in this case, attempt to shut her up, while trolls tend to throw their shit at anything that looks convenient. Image macro harassment doesn’t require much effort on the part of the harasser once the base has been made, which makes it easier for anyone who might want to waggle his dick in. He might try to hack her email in order to better harass his target. He might flood her inbox with pornography or deface her Facebook page with crudely drawn images of her being raped. Or he might create a flash game and invite people to “beat the bitch”. If that actually worked, I would be out of a job .
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