Are you saying that because there is homophobia in gaming, misogyny doesn’t exist or isn’t as important? Does that mean there is no racism either or that it doesn’t matter? You do know that talking about one particular kind of harassment doesn’t mean that others don’t exist and that we aren’t aware of that, right? I don’t think she is saying white, straight women are the only ones who are harrassed in the gaming community. She is just laying out her experiences within the gaming community, with consideration towards the issue of gaming journalism. Why is that a bad thing?
While I think there is some truth to this (and you could throw in white, cis-gendered, too, btw), I just don’t think that talking about an aspect of a larger problem means that she is necessarily ignoring other aspects of the same set of problems. When we don’t acknowledge the realities others face, all we end up doing is negating each other and talking past each other, and the homophobic, racist, misogynistic assholes win again…
