>The article notes this. Women shouldn't be expected to distance themselves from a very real threat of physical violence, which men simply don't face to anything close to the same degree.
Mean deal with threats of physical violence all the time. Including actual attacks, which is far more common between men. They just don't deal with rape threats/attacks.
What the hell kind of environment are you in where you get threats of physical violence "all the time"?
I've NEVER been threatened with any sort of violence in a professional or educational context. I've never witnessed threats of violence in my work environment. I might be just lucky to have always worked at awesome places (I am), but even when executives or other engineers were angry, I never saw any kind of threats made which would have made me worry about my physical safety.
The internet is different, in that there are some people that just want to spew filth everywhere, but even then it sure seems like women get more directed at them.
As a man, I definitely feel like I face both fewer attacks, and lesser degrees of attacks, online and offline, than a woman would. If your professional environment includes threats to your personal safety (or others), it's not a "professional" environment, and you should make an exit a priority to somewhere that treats you with respect.
If you see people making threats that you feel are actual threats, call the police. If you feel they're joking, tell them that it's not funny, and in shamefully poor taste.
>What the hell kind of environment are you in where you get threats of physical violence "all the time"?
The internet? Try writing a post / column on any political topic (even game or music criticism) and see what happens.
(TFA too, mentioned comments/threats from end users and such mostly over the internet -- not threats made to her in her workplace).
Still even at the physical workplace, men are more prone to resort to a "fist fight" kind of situation and physical violence between them. Including the rare, but orders of magnitude more often than with women, example of men going postal and shooting up the place.
Then there's being bullied at school and the neighborhood. And the usual threats from enraged drivers, drunkards at some bar, etc -- which also end up in violence sometimes.
And in Europe at least, you have to also count the all too common violence between men at soccer matches and other popular sports.
Not really. Most of my male friends, including myself, have been assaulted (beaten-up) before turning 21 - some in broad daylight, in the city centre, or with people around them. Most, if not all, of the assailants weren't punished (or even reported - it's obvious the police can't really do anything about it).
I don't have any similar statistics about my female friends. If they were raped, many would probably not share that fact as willingly as my male friends did. Still, I wishfully believe that not all of them have been raped/assaulted.
We are specifically discussing the games industry, which has a much higher than average rate of bullshit that gets hurled at the devs from across the internet. There are links scattered all over this discussion thread that show that.
If the argument is that women receive more than men on average and that the threats include sexual violence (which it rarely does against men), I won't argue that.
Mean deal with threats of physical violence all the time. Including actual attacks, which is far more common between men. They just don't deal with rape threats/attacks.