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There’s discussion of sexual assault, rape, suicide, and child molestation in the following paragraphs. Read at your own discretion.
Few in the gaming industry have shown a greater capacity to commit the unthinkable than men in positions of power. As eerily hard as it is to evaluate corporate culture on mere basis of a few isolated incidents, the rate at which women and non-binary people have been coming out to decry the dirty hand they’ve been dealt by men — and so far only men — in the industry should clearly tell us that this is far from a fluke. It’s an issue if left unchecked, could see women and non-binary folk completely flee the industry as their recourse for reform keeps being met with skepticism and retaliatory disdain.
This bore out as several key male figures came out under heavy fire for sexual abuse, gender discrimination, and inadequate pay-mostly targeting women. Game designer…
