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In reply to the discussion: Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Rape Culture, and Why Online Harassment Is Not a Joke (long screencap) [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I don't play video games, not now, although I used to play "escape from Wolfenstein" when it came on a used computer I bought from the Discovery Shop. I probably would still play it some if that computer still worked.
BUT
I can understand how people might be defensive about their favorite games.
I can also understand how some people might react to rejection.
But that's not misogynism because it would only be hatred of attractive women, and not all women.
Morrison explained it thus
"People are strange
when you're a stranger
faces look ugly
when you're alone
women seem wicked
when you're unwanted
streets are all evil
when you're down"
I speculate thus - many people have experienced a lot of rejection - and it has made them hateful and bitter. Thus, the hateful comments they make anonymously at their perceived enemy. I can understand that, because I, myself, have experience a lot of rejection.