Originally Posted by Some_Twerp753
I'm always a bit cool towards Ms Day after I discovered she has publicly stated she'd rather cross the street than walk by someone with a gaming t-shirt on.

Oh lordy, look, a misrepresentation of one blog post from, what, seven years ago, that got her doxxed and threatened. She actually talks extensively about this incident in her book, where she reflects about how the toxic culture surrounding gamergate's "ethics in video game journalism" (which was really about harassing any woman who dared to apply a basic feminist framework to the industry) affected her perception of people who she would have, up to that point, identified as potential friends, geeks and open-minded gamers. She didn't like how she felt about them, and she wrote about that experience and the cultural context surrounding that fear, asking for bridging the differences to enjoy gaming together -- for a cultural cease-fire, so to speak -- and, for her troubles, she got doxxed, her home address leaked and her dog threatened.




"I have allowed a handful of anonymous people to censor me. They have forced me, out of fear, into seeing myself a potential victim.

And that makes me loathe not THEM, but MYSELF.

So I write this to urge any person, male or female, who now has the impulse to do what I did, to walk away from something they loved before, to NOT.

Don’t let other people drive you away from gaming.

Games are beautiful, they are creative, they are worlds to immerse yourself in. They are art. And they are worth fighting for, even if the atmosphere is ugly right now. A small minority are putting up barbed wire walls between us who love games. And that is sad. Because odds are 99% certain that those guys on the street who I avoided would have been awesome to talk to. I realize that letting the actions of a few hateful people influence my behavior is the absolutely worst thing I could do in life. And not an example I want to set, ever.

So to myself and to everyone else who operates out of love not vengeance: Don’t abandon games. Don’t cross the street. Gaming needs you. To create, to play, to connect.

To represent."



Here's the original blog post:
http://feliciaday.com/blog/crossing-the-street/

Here's the Washington Post article about what followed:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-she-expresses-fear-of-being-targeted/

And The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/felicia-days-public-details-online-gamergate

And CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/living/felicia-day-gamergate

And Kotaku:
https://kotaku.com/felicia-day-and-gamergate-this-is-what-happens-now-1650544129