Although gaming is not directly related to caving, it does represent an industry considered traditionally male. Like all hyper masculinized industries, women are suffering extreme abuse without justice. Please read this statement from blogger Andrew Todd to learn more about women and other minorities in gaming like Anita Sarkeesian:
"... there are rampant issues with sexism, homophobia, and racism within the gaming industry. There are too many examples of misogyny from employers, readers, or fans to count, but a prominent, representative example - now ballooned to ludicrous proportions - is the continued harassment of video blogger and media commentator Anita Sarkeesian. Sarkeesian is the creator of webseries like Feminist Frequency and the excellent Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games, which critically examine the games industry's treatment of women in its products. As a result, she has suffered literal years of online abuse like denial-of-service attacks, rape threats, Web vandalism, and attempts at “doxing” or distributing personal information online, not to mention unceasing abuse in the form of tweets, emails, and internet comments. Some astonishingly awful creatures even made a video game consisting of nothing but punching Sarkeesian’s face into oblivion. What crime has Sarkeesian committed to deserve this treatment? Merely speaking up about the fact that, y’know, women aren’t portrayed all that well in video games. And Sarkeesian isn’t alone - attacks on female gamers, game developers and game journalists happen all the time, with a mob mentality bordering on the rabid."
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Read more: http://badassdigest.com/2014/08/26/video-games-misogyny-and-terrorism-a-guide-to-assholes/
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Image: http://siliconangle.com/files/2013/11/anita-sarkeesian.jpg
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