No matter what side of the political divide you fall on, we all agree that rape threats are execrable and terrible. That’s exactly why this response from a video game journalist to rape threats has gone viral:
Sometimes young boys on Facebook send me rape threats, so I've started telling their mothers. pic.twitter.com/0Cbs81eXiE
— Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) November 28, 2014
At the time of publishing, her tweet had received 34,344 retweets! Pretty amazing. She answered some more questions about her interaction with the mothers of the trolls who threatened her:
@BennyOBrien @DrCurlytek The 3 others didn't reply. As far as I can tell, they didn't get/read my messages.
— Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) November 28, 2014
@carrolljba @doncandon Super easy to do just by looking at their profiles, I've done it 4 times now (she was the first to reply, though).
— Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) November 28, 2014
Of course this fits into the misogynist gamer gate narrative, so some publications tried to smear gamers with the guilt for the event, even after Alanah herself denied it:
@Ectocooler_hi_c @BreakThe5thWall @Jezebel Yeah, I'm not comfortable suggesting that this is related to GG. There's no indication of that.
— Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) November 28, 2014
Funny how the maggots at Jezebel mislead their moron readers and no one noticed except one Mexican conservative blogger:
.@ishaaran you blame #GamerGate in your @jezebel article for rape threats though victim doesn't.. why are you lying? https://t.co/YRjX7n3c3c
— el ¡Soopèr! ن (@SooperMexican) November 28, 2014
No response? How weird…..