I'm sorry but that is effing gorgeous and I would wear that all over the grocery store.

When we finally talk, I'm struck immediately by how much Mercier feels obliged to qualify. Without asking, I learn how she dresses for work and professional events; how she acts in professional contexts; the image she strives to project; her boundaries for friends and friendly acquaintances and colleagues. She also…

I'm just going to start posting this image on stupid comments.

Problem is, when women do speak up, there's not much of a future for us in there either, we aren't intimidated by a male dominated industry, we're intimidated by what those males do and how they treat us when we try to speak about a severe problem. We get labeled as problems when we speak out. Regardless of industry.…

I wonder how that'll be when you have a daughter.

Report to HR if need be,

"Ladies need to be more willing to lose their job" is really what you're saying there, since that is a real and common consequence for speaking out against sexual harassment.

Did it ever occur to you that if you were female you might not say that? There is reason why comments like "this is all being blown out of proportion" are not being treated as credible. Because they are not credible.

I commend Kotaku for it. I've noticed a large uptick in the amounts of these stories being posted here and I think that's a good thing. Please keep it up.

I have to roll my eyes at all the, "but this happens everywhere! Not just in the games industry!" posts, as if that somehow makes everything okay. You're missing the point - it's also happening here and now, and the industry needs to try to better itself. We should better than this. Even if we can't improve how the…

They get harassed. They get death threats. They get rape threats. They get people finding their home addresses and posting pictures of their families...

Anyone who thinks this isn't a problem or feels it's just an isolated incident should read this recent story.

Now we're going to write about it for two weeks, everybody is going to hammer their righteous thoughtful opinions, then move on and nothing changes.

When we finally talk, I'm struck immediately by how much Mercier feels obliged to qualify. Without asking, I learn how she dresses for work and professional events; how she acts in professional contexts; the image she strives to project; her boundaries for friends and friendly acquaintances and colleagues. She also…

They are willing. They do speak out. They are speaking out.

Between this and instances of people telling devs to kill themselves on Twitter for some gameplay tweak they don't agree with, it can be REALLY embarrassing to be a part of gaming culture.

If it's happening everywhere, then by that very supposition, this says everything about the gaming community and industry. And just as other industries and communities need to battle this behavior in their own respective groups, we too need to do our part in the gaming community.

There's the article.