Posted on Friday, 16 March 2012

She described how, if she picks a female avatar and starts to win a card-game against a man, about 25% of the time the man will start calling her a “cunt,” “whore,” “bitch,” “slut,” and worse. Finally, not willing to continue to face such harassment from anonymous strangers simply for playing card-games online, she switched her avatar to a cat. Immediately the harassment stopped. The cat got more respect than the woman did!
Sunsara Taylor, reporting A Movement to End Pornography and Patriarchy is Launched!

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