I hate that so many of these stories are “shitty things happened so I stopped doing X to avoid them.” Girls should be able to do their fucking bike-a-thons without creeps around! ARGH!

With the small island religious mentality I grew up surrounded by, yes it was always the girl’s fault if she got looked at cause she was showing it off somehow or wanted it. When I was 10 maybe, a kid from my school came to visit me one day after school. Full disclosure, we did have a crush on each other, but we were…

St. Jude’s Bike-a-thon. I was about 12 or 13, skinny as a rail (I was a late bloomer). I was BOOKING IT, back and forth on this road that they used to count as our “laps” that we were sponsored for. By booking it, I mean, out of my bike seat and just pedaling standing up. A man working one of the lap stations at the…

"And now instead of being the harasser, he's the victim." (emphasis mine)

I'll just do what I usually do and steal a lyric from my favorite band - You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

Science isn't even a good excuse because there are rules of ethics now that prevent researchers from doing non- consensual research like that. Sounds like he's grasping at straws.

"...this isn't Grand Theft Auto. You can't threaten to murder people and think there are no consequences and you can take it back. My suggestion to him is to lawyer up."

So he still has a job - he must do since he signed the contract stating he'd make no more videos - and he got one piece of hate mail, and once a ghost knocked on his door. And HIS life is ruined.

:looks at Brianna Wu:
:looks at Giant Spacekat employees losing work:
:looks at locks on Brianna Wu's doors:
:looks at Anita…

Seriously, if his goal was to satirize gamergaters then he should have had the sense to bring Brianna Wu in on the "joke" and ask her to play along (for show, not actually calling the police and cancelling business events). He caused her immense mental distress and I get the impression that he was so focused on the…

He should have told Brianna Wu what he was up to

"If you look at the history of people who do actually get prosecuted for threatening women," she told Jezebel by phone this morning, "invariably when it goes to court they say, 'Hey, hey this was just a joke."

I find it scary that there is apparently a segment of the population that absolutely cannot empathize with another person's situation until they specifically go through the same thing themselves. Also scary: People that think that sending death threats to strangers in any way constitutes humor.

HAHAHAHA ETHICS IN GAMING JOURNALISM AMIRITE?

This was the most obvious troll I've ever seen, but it was astounding how much lore there is on the internet on this guy. There's a whole wiki devoted to this guy making the case why he can't possibly be faking because people trying to figure him out say he stays in character when he plays xbox live.

Even if the cops don't do shit. She can sue him. He uploaded so much, and her psychological distress as a result is pretty well shown. So even if the police decide not to charge him on harassment, or any of the lesser offense he could likely qualify for. She could get a pretty decent payout at least.

In a comment, he added, "The experiment was a resounding success. We will collect the necessary data from this last livestream, and then we'll consider the exercise closed."

Srsly though because "I was just kidding" is exactly what children say when they try to minimize the amount of trouble they're in

I am so fucking sick of these children who harass and threaten women but then the second the tables turn they're like "wahhh omg it's really serious and I am scared!" They have no empathy or intelligence at all/they think women aren't people. I'm just sick of it. Fuck these manchildren.

thing guy was doing barely happens to him, mind is changed, is victim now.