+Anita Sarkeesian has been viciously attacked, bullied, and stalked online because of her ideas that women need better representation in video games (I agree on her opinion on this). Anita is standing up to her online bullies and trolls in a way that, I hope, makes a dent future attacks.

Listen, attacking anyone online is not your RIGHT or PRIVILEGE as a human being (if you so happen to live in a country where free speech is a right). If you don't like what someone has written online, their thoughts or words, their beliefs or faith, or how they choose to live their life or who they choose to spend it with – go live your own life and worry about that. Does the fact that Anita is raising funds to make a video impact anyone's life negatively at all? People make videos all the time and put them online or on YouTube. People raise money all the time – and don't force you to chip in. How exactly is this offensive to anyone and enough that people are making games using her photo that simulate her being physically beaten and abused? How much time are these crazies dedicating to making someone else's life miserable? We don't have all that much time on this planet, I'm sure there are better ways to spend it.

Honestly, the Westboro Baptist Church have better tactics than the people that choose to single Anita out and attack her. There is a very apparent lack of humanity with these trolls and stalkers. I honestly wonder how they conduct their offline life. Do they randomly walk up to people and shout profanities to them or make rape threats? How you conduct yourself online should be a reflection of how you are offline. Someday one of the people that trolls try to victimize will show up at their front door. With a mob. Sadly, I'm sure when that vengeance is dealt, the law will not be on the side of the person who has been harassed.

From the +New Statesman article, and my feelings exactly:

I think Sarkeesian has been incredibly courageous in sharing what's happened to her. Those obscene pictures are intended to shame her, to reduce her to her genitals, and to intimidate her.

People are more than the sum of their parts, and as such cannot and WILL NOT be torn down and reduced to a plie of slander and vulgarities.

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