Anne of Green Gables! Anne Shirley forever! If they like the first one then there are tons more in the series too.

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

I read the lion the witch and the wardrobe when I was 4?5? My first year in primary school and it remains one of my favourite books to this day. I went on to read the other sequels and crying my eyes out at the last battle fight scene

I think it depends on the company, and their leadership. Plenty of game companies have female managers who would never let this crap happen on their watch. Others are run by manboys who are shocked to find out that sexual harassment isn't appreciated by everyone. I've met plenty of female game designers who rarely…

Yeah, and yet we both know we'd rather be white males than any other combination of anything else. The discrimination, hardship, and general crap we have to deal with is about 1/5th to 1/billionth what everyone else deals with, every day, from our own kind.

Agreed. Constantly, men feel it is 100% appropriate to ask a woman out during an INTERVIEW, or while discussing their pay. Luckily, that doesn't happen at my last two companies, but it certainly happens to a lot of female friends. Rather than all the "omg shut up and get used to it lolz boys will be boyz" crap, men…

I am so sorry that the constant discrimination, threats, and sexual harassment of people that are not you makes you annoyed and bored. Next time, maybe people with problems could talk about it on a website that isn't one you were forced at gunpoint to read. Ah well. Tell me again about how stressful it is to read…

Your joke post was so great! Really, thank you for that. "Blacks are paid the same and face no more discrimination ever! No one wants to rape you, that never happens to women ever!"

Thanks for this article. I really appreciate it, and I appreciate the mental effort in putting it into words

It's easy for guys to lack empathy having never experienced such situations. I have long hair and it never fails that even with all the facial hair how at first glance I get mistaken as a woman. Cat calls and being groped have a way of vastly changing the male perspective.

I mentioned this a while ago on another article, but I've seen some pretty egregious examples of this kind of discrimination, namely one involving the various heads of departments at the studio I worked at. We recently did some contracted work for a very prominent female developer in the business, and for all intents…

Oh, okay. Because your workplace is 100% fine, then there must be no issue anywhere else. WHEW. WHAT A RELIEF.

Okay, that's your wife. Your wife does not represent all the other women in the world. Full stop.

Okay, that's a super cool story. Do you realize that not everyone is a trained martial artist? I wouldn't be able to fight for shit, certainly not if I had a smaller female frame. Also, what if you're in a situation where the creeper is also trained? Well, I guess you just get harassed then, right?

Let me get this straight: he was standing in the only avenue of egress from her office, and he was not blocking her from physically extracting herself from the situation if she felt uncomfortable?
While I suspect that the guy meant nothing so drastic as rape by it, he was obviously violating her comfort zones. He…

She doesn't know what he's going to do next, that is the point. I'm a dude, so don't even start.

What do you do when the HR department doesn't do shit? No matter where you go?

This article is wonderful, but the comment thread makes me want to puke... DUDES: If you are "sick of hearing" about the injustice women experience on a daily basis, maybe you should work on actively making sure that those injustices become a thing of the past. I'm so sorry that these types of stories "wear you…

I was wondering what the significance of the onion was, and then I got towards the end of the article. I thought it was a very compelling story in the end.

Sad that there are some workplaces that can still be like this. I work in an industry that was largely male-dominated in the past but in the recent decades has become much more even if not slightly female-dominated. It has led to a very respectful workplace that I appreciate. Even as a male myself, I don't feel…