Yet she was harassed as if she'd proposed revolutionary insurrection, and so during the last week of August, Sarkeesian, an ordinary woman with a message so innocuous that a sane world might deem it obvious, was forced to flee from her home. Is any of this truly in doubt? Is any of it more radical than a new voice reciting an old liturgy? She points out that the video game industry caters to men women, when included, are typically set dressing, as victims of violence or sexual reward. To view Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency videos after reading accounts of her harassment is to be surprised chiefly by how uncontroversial her analysis feels. Very few of the women who have found themselves violently threatened on the internet are. T he most public victims of last year's Gamergate rage - women like Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, and Brianna Wu - were not radicals. Organized intimidation is now fair game for anybody audible to the mob, and everyone is audible online. For all the sense that we are in a generation finding a new voice, it may be more accurate to say that we are in a generation where an old voice has finally found volume. Women - some women, at least - have always known. It only took the internet to make it obvious.
