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SMNTY Classics: Online Gaming and Sexual Harassment

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Video Games and Young Men Going Their Own Way

Young men have been sold a lie that they will grow up be successful, get a job, find a wife and do the sort of white picket fence american dream thing. But look around, that's no longer happening. And video games are kind of functioning as a a way to be like, oh, the life that i was sort of promised, isn't reality for me? I'll just retreat into video games and pall you society. There's jenny honover who runs a web site dedicated to her experience in gaming - she has received rape threats from other gamers. So many women, so many different stories,. have spoken up about their experiences with sexual harassment while playing video games

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