Woman Messages 37-Year-Old Guy's Mom After He Sent Her a Nasty Message
Well deserved!
Everyone has a strong opinion about something nowadays, and they will insult you and try to belittle you if you disagree with them.
The internet is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with billions of people from all around the world, which can be very problematic because stumbling upon rage-filled, misogynistic individuals becomes much easier, especially when you put yourself out there on the internet.
The gaming industry is predominantly male-dominated, so being a female in that community can be quite challenging. Kallie Plagge, a writer for GameSpot.com, is accustomed to being harassed by men from that same community. She decided to expose some of the hate she's been receiving by messaging the 37-year-old's mother after he sent her a nasty message. She then posted the interaction on Twitter, where it garnered over 205K likes.
Here's her original Tweet:
@inkydojikkoHer message:
@inkydojikkoThe mother's reply:
@inkydojikko
The reason behind all of this is a review Plagge made about the popular game "Days Gone."
“Most aspects of Days Gone lack purpose,” Plagge wrote. “Its many narrative threads flirt with being meaningful and interesting but never quite commit, with characters whose actions and motivations don’t make sense.”A lot of people didn't share her views, considering that the average player score based on the ratings from GameSpot was 8.4. She also received around 950 comments on her article, in addition to two dozen messages in her DMs on Facebook and Tweets from angry fanboys.
“It was very clear [from] very early on that it had nothing to do with the content of our review,” Plagge told The Daily Beast. “It was very much just that guys wanted to find an excuse to say sexist things to women.”“I don’t know any women in the industry who haven’t experienced something like this,” she said. “It varies by how outspoken you are on Twitter, for example, but I think we all receive demoralizing comments, whether they are about our appearance or the things we say.”Plagge decided not to reveal the identities of either the man or his mother and encouraged people to raise awareness about harassment.
“There needs to be less rhetoric about, ‘Don’t feed the trolls,’ because they will come no matter what,” Kallie said. “And my philosophy on it is I’m not going to just lie down and be silent. I don’t want anyone to forget that this is what we have to do to perform our jobs.”Evidently, people had a lot to say about this incident:
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