Another intelligent woman online has to fear for her safety

There has been a lot of discussion about how 'she's invented the troll to make people feel sorry for her'.

Because believing the lie that a woman is trolling herself is easier to deal with than the truth that some men feel so entitled to do as they please that they think they can threaten to rape her with an iron bar.

No one could possibly watch it and think 'well that's just fine as casual entertainment.'

That must be what the ones harassing her think, though.

I've seen people refer to the person who made those recent horrible death threats against her as "just a twitter troll". No. This is really serious. I hope the police gets him and that he is punished for what he has done.

Her latest video was just awful to watch. Half an hour of women being brutalised and sexually attacked in video games. No one could possibly watch it and think 'well that's just fine as casual entertainment.'

And yet some people watch it and are so incensed that they decide to totally validate her concern that such portrayal of women in video games might contribute to a culture in which women are seen as inferior sex objects in real life.

Like 'there isn't an issue at all with the way women are portrayed in video games you fucking bitch, I'm going to rape you' isn't proving her point.

But they are just trying to shut down the debate. From what I've seen, anyone on twitter who supports her attracts harassment.

Good luck to her, and I hope the bastard is tracked down and ends up in jail.

Her latest video was about how violence against women was treated as some sort of background decoration in some games.

Speak out against patriarchal male violence in some way as a woman, recieve threats of male violence. Always the same story.

I really admire Anita Sarkeesian - both for her work and her ongoing resilience to rape/death threats.

I agree that her work is clear - she's commenting on female tropes in video games, films, adverts etc, and the damage these can do to women and girls.

The threats she (and other feminists) receive online, purely for their words are indicative of how violent and misogynistic our culture really is.