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I really don’t like how criticizing someone with a vagina is considered to be sexism. No one brought up her vagina until after she did. Also not a big fan of negative feedback being considered “gamer entitlement”.

Hundreds of messages have been sent to Hepler, as a simple Twitter search shows. Many choose to attack her writing and ability to craft characters. A staggering number focus on her physical appearance, choosing to call her such delightful names as “fat bitch” and “obese cunt.”

Gather around, boys and girls, and let me tell you a familiar story. It’s about a person who works in the game industry, who said some things about games five years ago. Then a week ago, some gamers took screenshots of those things and photoshopped them next to a picture of that person, a nickname that drew negative attention to the person’s physical appearance, some completely unrelated quotations (made to appear attributed to the person) and added a list of descriptive words: “CANCER INFECTION BLIGHT VERMIN DISEASE SEWAGE PLAGUE WASTE.” Then they put it up on Reddit, in post calling the person “the cancer that is killing Bioware.” Upvotes and downvotes were voted, gamer rage was raged, and eventually moderators on r/gaming deleted the post entirely because that person from the game industry had started getting harassing calls on her home phone.

Criticizing someone who is a woman because she is a woman is sexism. Calling someone an “obese cunt” on their personal twitter and harassing them on their home phone because five years ago they said something in an interview that you disagree with a small sound bite of goes beyond “negative feedback”.

Jesus christ