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"Gen Con, major gaming convention, has more female than male speakers for the first time ever, making some gamers grumpy
By Katie Mettler May 18 at 5:47 AM
The Insider slate this year is a testament that change doesn’t have to be slow. If people with influence want to make it happen, they can.
— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) May 11, 2016
Jessica Price’s first rape threat appeared 10 years ago, when she posted on social media that she was playing Halo — and she liked it.
Her benign observation was met with vitriol, not because she was wrong, but because she was a woman.
“It has actually gotten worse since then,” said Price, 35, a writer, editor, designer and producer of video and tabletop games and a current Paizo Pathfinder RPG Project Manager (RPG stands for role-playing game.)
It’s no secret that women in the gaming industry — and women in some other male-dominated fields — face an onslaught of hateful rhetoric, violent threats and insulting, sexist critiques on social media sites like Twitter, Reddit and 4chan for simply doing their jobs. The Gamergate controversy brought international attention to the issue in 2014, when an Internet mob of organized commenters attacked several high profile women in the gaming world, posting their home addresses and personal information online and threatening them with sexual assault, physical violence and even death.
When those women tried to defend themselves, it only got worse."