Twitter and the hashtag #1ReasonWhy is currently be used by female employees and others in regards to exposing the level of sexism and other similar issues within the video game industry.
While the majority of the stories being exposed involve women in general, men who have tried to get the issue fixed have also revealed stories involving threats they received from their bosses.
Besides the usual cases of workplace harassment and discrimination, female character design was also revealed to be another sore problem. People were either ridiculed or ignored when they tried to suggest changes to female characters beyond their stereotypical roles and appearances.
Stories involving harassment and groping during conventions were meant to show how this problem is not solely a workplace issue and goes deeper involving the gaming community as a whole.
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t's not just women, either. Rock, Paper, Shotgun writer John Walker revealed he gets threats and abuse every time he addresses these issues, "And *I* have a penis."
"Because I'm sexually harassed as a games journalist, and getting it as a games designer compounds the misery," wrote Lillian Cohen-Moore.
"Because conventions, where designers are celebrated, are unsafe places for me. Really. I've been groped," wrote filamena.
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Typical with anything involving the internet, trolls and others who don't see sexism as an issue also have voiced their own opinions usually verbally attacking people who have tweeted their personal stories.
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