What's with those women and their opinions

Sometimes, in my little corner of the web, I tend to forget that fr many internet is a place to say all those things they are not allowed to talk in public. And not in that good, strike against censorship way. No, it's all hate and invectives and mob attacks. It's also a form of censorship because it is a way to intimidate, shame and scare that person and all the others from stating their point of view ever again.

Add to this all the woman hate that ever crossed their minds and can be sputtered out without consequence. The results can be seen at the hate camping against Anita Sarkeesian. She committed a horrible crime of creating Kickstarter project to fund Tropes vs Women in Video Games to share her thoughts on the subject. She wanted to talk about misogyny and sexism and internet delivered it to her in a full force. As The Mary Sue writer Becky Chambers put it:

Whether or not you like Sarkeesian’s work is utterly moot. You might disagree with some of her points. You might disagree with all of her points. You might even vehemently disagree. That’s not the issue here. The issue lies in this: A woman declared her intent to publicly voice her opinions about video games. For that, she was called a bitch, a whore, a slut, a cunt, a dyke, and a baffling assortment of racial slurs. She was threatened with violence, rape, and death. She was told to shut her mouth, get back in the kitchen, and die of cancer. Her video was repeatedly flagged for terrorism in an effort to get YouTube to pull it. Her Wikipedia page was defaced with pornography and profanity. All for the crime of being a woman talking about women in video games. No, not for being a woman talking about video games. For being a woman who had announced that she would, at some point in the future, be talking about video games.

She also posted a photo of herself on the internet. The insolence of that woman.

The one good thing is that she not only reached her funding goal - she exceeded it over 10x.