{"id":3586,"date":"2014-10-16T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/16\/when-enough-is-too-much\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T02:50:10","slug":"when-enough-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/16\/when-enough-is-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"When Enough is Too Much."},"content":{"rendered":"

pangolin-green<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ultrace<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve folllowed gaming news or possibly even some other news in the past day or so, you might have heard how Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel an appearance at Utah State University<\/a> after threats of a massacre were made if she carried out her talk. Utah\u2019s gun laws wouldn\u2019t permit police to search or restrict properly permitted firearms at the event, and school shootings motivated by anti-feminism are a legitimate possibility<\/a>, so Anita did the smart thing\u2014the responsible thing\u2014and canceled her appearance.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t a win for anybody. The person who made these threats didn\u2019t accomplish anything but further the impression that an ever-greater portion of gamers suffer from a range of psychological problems, from social maladjustment to psychopathic urges. Whoever it was, they thought it would be funny, or cool, or heroic to put a stop to all this feminine nonsense. But they were wrong. There\u2019s nothing \u201cfunny\u201d about shooting someone, it isn\u2019t \u201ccool\u201d to try and keep someone from speaking their mind, and there\u2019s no heroism in threatening to murder a bunch of peaceful unarmed people.<\/p>\n

If you agree with me, then you share the same responsibility I do: to stand up against this kind of sick, twisted, bullshit behavior. You don\u2019t have to take to the streets waving a sign to make a difference. When you see a threatening, harassing, misogynist or otherwise just fucked up tweet, respond and tell them the truth:\u00a0that shit ain\u2019t\u00a0cool.<\/em>\u00a0Got friends on Facebook who think its fun to call women cunts and bitches, joke about raping or even killing them? Make those\u00a0ex<\/em>-friends. Use those downvotes on Reddit. Let a socially primitive Tumblr user know what you think. We live in a socially empowered world. The people who don\u2019t feel this kind of behavior is okay ought to be able to use it as well.<\/p>\n

This is a poison in our culture and it needs to be stamped out, or whatever the appropriate analogy happens to be. It won\u2019t be fixed overnight, but that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t start now.\u00a0<\/span>I don\u2019t generally use this space as a soapbox, but there are times when I have to speak up on things. This is one of them, because it\u2019s behavior we tolerate from fellow \u201cgamers\u201d which shouldn\u2019t be tolerated from anybody. Threats of rape and violence\u2014whether intended to be carried out or not\u2014aren\u2019t acceptable, no matter what the reason and especially not because someone has the\u00a0audiacity to speak about something you like<\/em>. If you disagree, then you\u2019re just flat wrong, and if you disagree strongly enough that it affects your view of me, then find the unfollow button.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ultrace speaking the truth.<\/p>\n

What he says above holds true here. If you think this crap is acceptable, the door\u2019s over there, and don\u2019t let it hit your arse on the way out.<\/p>\n

The Standard you walk past is the standard you accept. And we do not accept misogyny or the all too prevalent and pervasive Rape Culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

pangolin-green: ultrace: If you\u2019ve folllowed gaming news or possibly even some other news in the past day or so, you might have heard how Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel an appearance at Utah State University after threats of a massacre were made if she carried out her talk. Utah\u2019s gun laws wouldn\u2019t permit police … Continue reading When Enough is Too Much.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,102,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}