Why Being a Woman Working in the Gaming Biz Gets Ugly
Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch
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Posted 09.09.2012
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Canada Living
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Just when I think I've come to place of being comfortable in the video game industry, something happens that has made me question what I'm doing here. I'm talking about the harassment and hatred directed at feminist media critic and gamer Anita Sarkeesian. Sarkeesian is experiencing a hostility that many women in the games industry have experienced to varying degrees for many years. And it's ugly.
