Felicia Day Shows Understandable Fear In The Face Of GamerGate

As a fellow gamer, I could not imagine the feeling of being ripped from what I love. Felicia Day posted on Tumblr/Twitter what she fears about GamerGate. Soon after, her fears were exposed!

Crossing the Street http://t.co/IVlmvsQ7ef

— Felicia Day🇺🇸 (@feliciaday) October 22, 2014

If you haven’t heard of GamerGate, it is an online movement that targets gaming journalism, including female gamers who talk about and play these games. In her story on Tumblr, Felicia Day expresses she can no longer say hello to her fellow gamers in public. Day exclaims, “But for the first time maybe in my life, on that Saturday afternoon, I walked towards that pair of gamers and I didn’t smile. I didn’t say hello. In fact, I crossed the street so I wouldn’t walk by them. Because after all the years of gamer love and inclusiveness, something had changed in me.”  In this post, she also explains the type of fear she was given: that she felt forced to quit what she loved, and she was even afraid of her own Twitter account!

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

Twitter has been buzzing since August about GamerGate, many had very different opinions of this controversy.

What the game industry doesn't understand is they had a part to play in the culture that spawned #gamergate and is now terrorizing women.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/JennyOHenry/status/525638840330252288

#GamerGate Notice that #GamersAgainstGamerGate spells GAGG, like the kind of gag you use to silence an entire movement? No surprise there

— null (@gamergatetxt) October 24, 2014

Day is a proud gamer and will continue to play them, and  through all the fear she still stands strong. There is a line drawn between female gamers and gamers, and it should be broken. Video gaming is without gender, and no one should be made to fear something that was created to bring joy.

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