As a man, I'm not that keen on threats of murder or felony assault. I expect women in public life to be able to handle hurtful comments, but credible death threats are wrong and anybody, regardless of race, sex, or planet of origin, needs to take them seriously.

Ah, accusations from an anonymous coward. Do you have any actual evidence for your claims?

Kids effectively have no rights. At least in recent memory (I haven't been following this, and it may have changed), many juvenile courts and similar institutions were assumed to be working for the benefit of the kids, which removed all sorts of protections. If I go to court, it is understood that the judge isn't on my side, and if I get convicted the sentence won't be to my benefit. Therefore, I get such things as the right to counsel and the presumption of innocence. Juvenile "justice" tended to dispense with such inconveniences.

So, yes, if I write violent fiction (and I do sometimes, never published though), or fiction about acts of terrorism, no problem. If my son had done that while in K-12 school, he could have been in serious trouble.

What makes you think people haven't attacked the film/TV industry, the music industry, or various religious groups as being misogynist? I've seen all three being accused. If you haven't, well, you must follow gaming news a lot more than other news. Nothing wrong with that, but you're making statements out of ignorance.

Sarkeesian has chosen to attack what she sees as misogyny in video games, much as others have attacked it in various other art forms and religions and other sorts of groups. She's specializing, which is a reasonable thing to do. She herself doesn't need to concentrate on misogyny everywhere, particularly when many other people are attacking perceived misogyny all over.

Corporate policies? You think corporate policies on women haven't been attacked? Do you read Slashdot articles that aren't about games? Have you missed all the articles on allegations of sexism and misogynist behavior in the tech industry? They attracted a lot of comments. Gamers aren't being singled out in any way, shape, or form here.

Why is this modded Flamebait? It's a blunt expression of opinions on her work, which is not objectionable, with some insults, which aren't that bad. It also insists that she should be safe from threats of violence, and that those who make them should be punished. Seems perfectly legit to me.

Non-Muslims have to pay tax (jizya). Muslims have to pay tax too; it just goes by a different name (zakat). Which non-failed state doesn't enforce laws against tax evasion?

Apple pops up a notification (more annoying than Microsoft actually) that says "install these patches now or later?", and you have to click and open up before you can even see what you're clicking "now" or "later" for. Then it turns out it's just something stupid like itunes. So I ignore it. Then a few days later it repeats. Then a few days after that. And so on. It's basically the apple store window, even though I have zero software anywhere on or in the vicinity of the mac that even saw that store. So yes, I am indeed crawling under that sink to see what shit the plumber left there.

At least be glad microsoft isn't merging their updates and patches with their store.

The thing is that most of those stability patches are no such thing. They are for cards you don't have on your computer, for a product you don't use, and in some cases have nothing to do with stability but instead added new features.

When you click for more details it tells you to visit a web page. Then on that web page, full of long boilerplating, there is some description. Useful description, but it takes you enough time that to follow that patch for every update is a tedious chore. It would indeed help if the patch description said something more useful than "stability pach" or the name was something other than "KB11878723".

I think the rationale is that either the interns it would take to do this minimal work are costing too much, or they want customers to blindly install everything shoved at them.

Nonsense. Consumer protection is probably worth only 1% of a game's price. Unless the company is putting out games where most of the customers are going to complain about it.

I'm utterly baffled that EA has any customers left.

I've seen even less annoying protections. And games with no DRM or copy protection (they're not the same thing). With steam you gotta wait for steam itself to update, then mandatory updates to the game before first launch. Some games also have subsequent mandatory updates, very annoying to say the least (and when you find out what these important changes are you find out they were trivial fixes for some video card you don't even have). Some other games require you to register outside of steam to get the add-ons you paid for (seriously what the hell is wrong with bioware). Then every time you play you have to waaaait for steam to launch first.

Meanwhile GOG gives you DRM free games, and allows refunds, and sells the same title cheaper than Steam. You can give your games away, loan them out, play them without asking for permission, mod them up all you want, revert to older versions, etc.