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Laurie Penny: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet "I believe the time for silence is over. If we want to build a truly fair and vibrant community of political debate and social exchange, online and offline, it's not enough to ignore harassment of women, LGBT people or people of colour who dare to have opinions. Free speech means being free to use technology and participate in public life without fear of abuse – and if the only people who can do so are white, straight men, the internet is not as free as we'd like to believe."
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/c...
http://tedxwomen.org/speakers/anita-s...
"Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes and tropes associated with women in popular culture, as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces. Anita lectures and presents at universities, conferences, and game development studios internationally. She has been interviewed and featured in publications such as Forbes, Wired, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and the New York Times. Her videos are freely available via the Feminist Frequency YouTube channel and widely serve as educational tools in high school and university classrooms.
WHY ARE COMMENTS TURNED OFF? This talk comes from a woman who was targeted by an online hate campaign. Predictably, the same campaign has targeted this talk, so comments have been shut down."
Hate campaign began in June:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/int...
http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/20...