{"id":6053,"date":"2014-10-18T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2014-10-18T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T09:48:57","slug":"brianna-wu-and-the-human-cost-of-gamergate-every-woman-i-know-in-the-industry-is-scared-technology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/18\/brianna-wu-and-the-human-cost-of-gamergate-every-woman-i-know-in-the-industry-is-scared-technology-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Brianna Wu and the human cost of Gamergate: &#039;every woman I know in the industry is scared&#039; &#124; Technology &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, Gear of War designer Cliff Bleszinzki blogged on this very issue. He wrote this:<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re the gamers, the dorks. We\u2019re the ones who were on our computers during prom. We\u2019re the ones that were in the back of the lunch room who were playing D&amp;D instead of tossing a football around on the quad. We were supposed to be the open, friendly ones, the ones who welcomed all into our wonderful geeky circle.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re not supposed to be a mob that\u2019s storming the gates with our pitchforks and torches.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time for reasonable people to pull away. To form something else. To take everything they\u2019ve learned about agitation and protest, and apply it in a very different way. Don\u2019t have all this on your conscience.<br \/>\nWe need to create an industry in which people can question practices and conventions, but also where all are welcome and safe. For a start, however, we need to create an industry in which, whatever you think of their views, Quinn, Sarkeesian and Wu can go home.<br \/>\nWe just have to make sure they can go home in peace.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/oct\/17\/brianna-wu-gamergate-human-cost\">Brianna Wu and the human cost of Gamergate: &#8216;every woman I know in the industry is scared&#8217; | Technology | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Gear of War designer Cliff Bleszinzki blogged on this very issue. He wrote this: \u201cWe\u2019re the gamers, the dorks. We\u2019re the ones who were on our computers during prom. We\u2019re the ones that were in the back of the lunch room who were playing D&amp;D instead of tossing a football around on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/18\/brianna-wu-and-the-human-cost-of-gamergate-every-woman-i-know-in-the-industry-is-scared-technology-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brianna Wu and the human cost of Gamergate: &#039;every woman I know in the industry is scared&#039; &#124; Technology &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}