A leading critic of the stereotyping of women in video games, Anita Sarkeesian, has been receiving death threats, bomb threats, and rape threats for months.
According to an article by Nick Wingfield in today’s Times, Ms. Sarkeesian was scheduled to speak at Utah State University. The speech was cancelled when the university received an email warning that a shooting massacre would occur if she spoke. The email said, “This will be the deadliest school shooting in American history, and I’m giving you a chance to stop it.”
The University cancelled the speech, because under Utah law, CAMPUS POLICE COULD NOT PREVENT PEOPLE WITH WEAPONS FROM ENTERING THE HALL WHERE SHE WOULD SPEAK.
There you have it, folks. This is the America brought by the National Rifle Association. A college campus can’t keep guns out of a public presentation. What kind of chickenshit legislators would adopt such a law? Why wouldn’t common sense prevail over N.R.A. bullying and threats?
And why would “gamers” threaten a woman who is exercising her American free speech rights? The threats, of course, are anonymous, probably from adolescent boys who jerk off to fantasies of sexual violence.
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