OH GOD I WANT THIS SO BAD but wait why the hell does the lady avatar have everything covered but her breasts that seems a little impractical.

A friend of mine quit the gaming industry because of all the sexual harassment she got at work, and dumped her Xbox 360 because of all the harassment on Xbox Live.

Yeah because Gay people weren't invented until the 20th century.

Or as Gus put it on Psych recently, "what, Black people weren't invented yet?"

Or a mercenary, or a prince, or a mixed child, or whatever the hell you want because it's fiction and apparently only Assassin's Creed needs to directly replicate historical events. :p

I call these folks idiots not for their "arguments" - the game takes place in a small area of medieval Bohemia, so there are good odds everyone would have been white anyway - but because of their hair-trigger hostility, and the extent with which they feel entitled to lash out and threaten others.

Anyone else remember Gunmetal?

Catbug gets it!

But that still feels like we're talking about whether or not she 'should' fight back when in reality we should be blown away that he 'chose' to say these things to her in a professional context.

Is there a way we can talk about empowering people to say 'no' or 'stop' then that doesn't automatically do what it does right now? Because as much as I'm in favor of the fighting back rhetoric, (see, 90% of my comments on this article), I'm still in that place where it leaves this shadow over those who don't have the…

But that's just it. The 'stand up for yourself' argument becomes self-defeating because not everyone has what it takes to be a fighter at all times, nor do I think we should expect them to be. It says we're okay with these scenarios being so commonplace, that the reaction isn't tackle the structural implications of…

I can't agree that it's the best way, I can just agree we need our environments to be safe enough that it's safe to say. Saying 'no' currently invites danger for many people, which is just the twisted part of the problem.

I posit that advocating for women's rights and safety does not automatically preclude advocating for the many other marginalized groups in need of support. It's just the prime topic relevant to these newsworthy events.

Eh I mean that's definitely part of the solution but I'd chuck in a need to improve Children's media to discourage the seeds for these harassing behaviors, toss in some better training for everyone involved in K-12 in terms of recognizing and dealing with harassment, a general need for our culture to be exceptionally…

I apologize, I think my statement was misleading.

But the cultural problem is that we put all this onus on the victim to be responsible for the perpetrator's actions?

You invoked scientific fact, it is upon you to use your magical google machine that you are typing this on to go Google the studies that back up your claim.

Since I don't know your sex/gender, I can't make assumptions about what kind of harassment you might face, but as the article indicates, there's a huge cultural problem in the industry that women who do speak up against sexual harassment will be fired and ostracized. As much as I'm fond of slaying dragons, I can…

I will gladly (metaphorically) light people on fire if they will stop fucking harassing other people. Mattingly built a great site, but he needed to step down because of his actions. A perfectly toasted marshmellow.

Harassment isn't fucking acceptable. Sexual harassment isn't fucking acceptable. If you've been harassed, that isn't acceptable and it isn't 'the natural order of things.'