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This is a story about gamer culture, casual sexism, the silence of friends, and its fallout - more or less in that order.

Firstly, context. I’m a recent graduate working as a game designer for a social games startup in New York City, and I identify strongly with other students and alumni who…

A must-read story about casual sexism in gaming communities and amongst game developers. One of the biggest obstacles to equality is when men remain silently complicit in the sexist behaviour of other men. Given how sexist the world is, women can’t fight sexism alone. We need men to stand up to sexism, too.