A female ‘Overwatch’ player was harassed for 16 minutes — so she uploaded it all to YouTube
- An Overwatch gameplay video gaining traction online can only be described as 16 minutes of pure horror. Throughout the entire recording, several members on a female player’s team verbally harassed her, hurling moronic, sexist, rapacious vitriol at her — nonstop.
- The
video is absolutely gut-wrenching, not only because the content itself
is horrifying, but also because it stands for something larger: It’s a distillation of the experience of gaming online if you don’t fit the stereotypical image of what a gamer is supposed to be.- “I am putting this and a few other examples of the way I am treated up not just for entertainment,” Overwatch player Glisa said in the description of the YouTube video. Read more (5/11/17)
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THIS IS NOT OKAY!!
EXPOSE THE TEAMMATES
LET THE WORLD SHAME THEM
SHOW THIS TO THEIR MOTHERS, GRANDMOTHERS, GIRLFRIENDS, EMPLOYERS AND TEACHERS
MAKE BLIZZARD’S SUSPENDING OR BANNING THEM JUST THE BEGINNING OF THEIR PUNISHMENT
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Y’all ever wonder why I have concerns about playing online games like this…
Well there ya go.


