#Anita_Sarkeesian interview: ’The word “troll” feels too childish. This is abuse’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/29/anita-sarkeesian-gamergate-interview-jessica-valenti
Sarkeesian, media critic and executive director of the nonprofit and video web series #Feminist_Frequency, has spent the past few years of her life at the centre of a firestorm in the gaming community – one that brings together #misogyny, technology and a cultural shift in an industry so huge it now outperforms Hollywood. In videos that discuss misogyny in #video_games and widespread tropes that diminish women, Sarkeesian – named one of the 100 most influential people of 2015 by Time magazine – talks to the camera, with a commentary that runs the gamut from feminist theory to historical analysis. Her videos are smart, incisive and much needed in an industry in which women are often treated as little more than background decoration or damsels in distress.
