“nationally-known feminist writer and video game critic”
She’s taking this “First Person” shooting game thing a little too seriously.
Anyway, I suppose 2 or 3 kids will be disappointed that she won’t be joining them at the reserved table in the cafeteria.
they should sue her @$$ ala the Christian Bakers screwed by the fuzzbumpers.
Oh, Boo-effin’ Hoo...
Actually there are a lot of questions out today suggesting that this woman is making the threats to herself using dummy Twitter and email accounts to pursue her own agenda and to draw attention to herself.
umm, no, you weren't forced...
It’s a bit more complicated than that blurb suggests. From deeper in the article:
An email to Utah State University threatened “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if the school did not cancel a lecture Wednesday morning by a well-known feminist writer and video game critic.
Feminists have ruined my life, and I will have my revenge, for my sake and the sake of all others they’ve wronged,” read the message from a sender who claimed to be a USU student.
The message threatened to rain gunfire and shrapnel upon a lecture by Sarkeesian, who created a feminist video blog and a video series on misogyny in video games. She was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m. at the Taggart Student Center Auditorium.
“A Montreal Massacre style attack will be carried out,” warned the message, sent to multiple departments and individuals around campus. “I have at my disposal a semi-automatic rifle, multiple pistols, and a collection of pipe bombs.”
She’s probably not familiar with - and likely scared of - gun culture. Given some of the mass killings which have happened over the last few years, I can understand her cancelling her speech.
To further understand this story I recommend reading up on #GamerGate.
She gets a lot more anti-gun publicity by canceling.
Good. Her ilk engages in shouting conservatives down all the time. Now she gets shut down and no one had to raise their voice.
She’s nationally known because she’s mocked relentlessly for her poorly argued points.
Good for her. I would hope that more feminists and anti-gun radicals would follow her example and self censor.
Given her MO, I’d say she called it in on herself for sympathy.
The same type of “threat” was used by her and Chelsea van Valkenburg(aka “Zoe Quinn) regarding the Gamergate controversy.
Gee whiz, I sure wouldn’t want to have missed the speech. I’ll bet it would have been stimulating to the nth degree. (snicker)