No Girls Allowed: The Lasting Rules of GamerGate and Toxic Misogyny | Sam Riedel
▻https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/no-girls-allowed-the-lasting-rules-of-gamergate-and-toxic-misogyny
Most gamers knew the truth: there was a cancer at the center of their culture, a malignant growth of bitterness without direction and pain without cause. Many tried to mask or downplay its presence, even deny it outright, but the truth remained. Since the advent of “gaming” as we know it today—console video games, tabletop board-and-role-playing games, virtual reality, and so on—the surrounding subculture had been dominated by men who became its jealous gatekeepers; first to guard against childhood tormentors, bullies, and the like and, over time, simply to keep out those who were different. Most threatening of all were women, whose presence grew over time into a monolith of judgment and derision; they had no place in “gamer culture.” Until they did. Source: Bitch (...)