Boys will be boys, this is the internet, if I don’t want to read that shit I should stay away from these sites, blah blah blah. But here’s the thing: tame and unsurprising as they are, those type of comments make me feel uncomfortable. They reinforce the boys-club ideas that women’s bodies are for consumption, that any male has the right to a woman’s body, and that it is okay to say cruel things about a complete stranger because she has the audacity to be a woman.
via shoesonwrong.com
You know, I think subconsciously this is one reason why I'm not really into gaming anymore. Sure, one could say I've outgrown it or I've got more important and intellectually interesting things to do than be called a whore or a slut, but let's just open up the brainpan and look underneath all the fun, intellectual things I'm doing these days, shall we?
Yup. It's one of the reasons.
