Questions for a female gamer

[StarSock64]

I have reason to think that the harassment at a Con or in real life situations have a different cause than the harassment of online gaming.

I have heard that there are many cases of online gamers who say horrible things over the chat but are completely different people face-to-face. It's pretty interesting subject, here's a video on it:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOHNjZ-2qM

So what this mean is that harrasment online and in real life must have different causes and therefor must need different solutions.

That's an interesting point. It seems like it probably at least has an element of truth to it. Even if the problems aren't quite the same, though, it would probably help both situations to an extent if there were more girls out there playing games in the open and talking with other game-playing guys to normalize the idea that girls can play games too.

I think a panel like this could go horribly wrong, but kat seems pretty chill, so I dunno, maybe it'll do some good.