What do you do when you read something that challenges your beliefs? Enter a healthy debate to re-evaluate your position? Maybe. But what if you’re a sexist middle-aged person who feels threatened by everyone who disagrees with you? Whatever it is, don’t abuse them with every swear word you know. Or else you might end up like this poor guy. Getting manhandled by your mom.
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Working in the video game industry, Kallie Plagge is used to getting harassed by men. However, one recent encounter was so over the line, the GameSpot.com writer went out looking for allies. And found one: the harasser’s mother.
Kallie sent her a screenshot of her son’s vulgar message and, to her surprise, received a response the next morning. The mom was so nice about it, Kallie celebrated their exchange by sharing it on her Twitter account. Her tweet has already received over 205K likes, and people are applauding the way Kallie took care of this situation.
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It all started when Plagge reviewed a popular game called Days Gone. “Most aspects of Days Gone lack purpose,” Plagge wrote. “Its many narrative threads flirt with being meaningful and interesting but never quite commit, with characters whose actions and motivations don’t make sense.” The verdict: 5 out of 10.
Many disagreed with Kallie. The average player score, based on ratings from GameSpot users, was 8.4. In addition to over 950 comments her article has received, Plagge said she got more than two dozen personal Facebook messages and countless tweets from disappointed fans of the game. “It was very clear [from] very early on that it had nothing to do with the content of our review,” Plagge told The Daily Beast. “It was very much just that guys wanted to find an excuse to say sexist things to women.”
“I don’t know any women in the industry who haven’t experienced something like this,” she said. “It varies by how outspoken you are on Twitter, for example, but I think we all get demoralizing comments, whether it’s about our appearance or about the things we say.”
Plagge decided she wouldn’t reveal the identities of both the harasser and his mother. She believes that people should celebrate this case for raising awareness about harassment.
“There needs to be less of a rhetoric about, ‘Don’t feed the trolls,’ because they will come no matter what,” Kallie said. “And my philosophy on it is I’m not going to just lie down and be silent. I don’t want anyone to forget that this is what we have to do to do our jobs.”
Here’s what people said about the whole situation
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I ONE HUNDRED percent agree no man should talk to a woman like that (or a woman to a man) but this has to be the laziest and worst piece of garbage of a post I've seen here in a while, and there have been some lazy posts lately. Not to mention it's from May
My sister was getting threatening messages from a guy on Facebook (he, like the gobshite above, disagreed with her view). Sadly for him, he wasn't very security conscious on his account at the time. My sister took a guess at which one of his friends was his mother and contacted her. She never heard from him again.
And that's why you don't use your real name when you answer to strangers.
37-y/o sh!t-for-brains sounds like an angry BASEMENT-DWELLING PORN-INFECTED INCEL -- here's hoping he doesn't have an arsenal of firearms to take out his misogynistic fury.
If only all men pulling this c**p had easily available mothers to contact.
Guy posted on Facebook she just looked at his "friends" list and found his mother.
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37 can only remind you of Marianne Faithful. Yes, Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
not only am I laughing at the comments IN the story. But I am laughing at the comments ABOUT the story. You guys are complaining about how "boring" this story is yet YOU clicked on it to READ it. Don't complain when you willingly read it. Not to mention the title told you exactly what was going to happen therefore you can't even pretend to act shocked. hahaha wow.
Glad you went to the mom. Sadly, I'm not sure if it will matter, considering she raised a man who obviously didn't think twice about trying to rip the reviewer apart over her opinion. I don't agree with the review of Days Gone, but it's a freggin game. When are some people going to realize that when they lash out like that, they only serve to make themselves look like a butt-hurt buffoon.
I straight love this. As a gamer I see the idiocy that invades the culture due to anonymity. Me being so far on the other side of it love posts like these. Love her, love her reaction, love the mom's response.
"Maam, he said mean things to meh." Happens everyday in kindergarten... That said, guy does have issues.
Please name the kindergartens your child attends where 5 year old boys are calling little girls "sjw c**t bitches". Do us a solid and share the names/locations so we can avoid those parenting deserts.
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It never fails to amaze me how now a days people get such joy from strangers getting in s**t?
I'm just here to see all the angry comments written by angry men about the article about angry men writing angry comments about an article about somebody else's opinion of a video game. Don't forget to downvote and write angry replies. It nourishes me.
The incels are sure riled up by this post. This comments section is so cringe inducing. Why are people trying to defend this guy? And put down this woman for standing up to a bully? It seems like they are all scared someone is gonna tell their mommies too.
An opinion can't be wrong... people who think otherwise are quite self absorbed.
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Ugh. She is just as bad as he is. "Your being mean to me I'm telling!" I thought this was beat out of us as children by the second grade.
https://www.facebook.com/176270319137347/posts/2434153590015664/?sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e
ok… someone can tell me what's the problem with girl who likes to game? because i try to find one and i can't
Not a gamer, but sadly I can't count how many times I've been called a fake, because I like LOTR but don't know every minute detail of the entire Tolkien universe. And for some reason it's always coming from men.
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Basically someone said something mean to you and you told their mommy on them?
The only thing the guy did wrong was having his privacy settings so s****y that this girl was able to message his mom.
No Jeff, what he did wrong was to be a misogynist a*****e who said horrible things to a woman. I'm sure you are one of those as well so perhaps you should reconsider your life decisions. Being an incel isn't a good decision but I'm sure you are one.
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A 37 years old guy that uses "Southpark speech" to express his misogynistic opinion qualifies for the title of Incel of this century.
Like others in this post, you don’t seem to understand what misogyny is.
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I ONE HUNDRED percent agree no man should talk to a woman like that (or a woman to a man) but this has to be the laziest and worst piece of garbage of a post I've seen here in a while, and there have been some lazy posts lately. Not to mention it's from May
My sister was getting threatening messages from a guy on Facebook (he, like the gobshite above, disagreed with her view). Sadly for him, he wasn't very security conscious on his account at the time. My sister took a guess at which one of his friends was his mother and contacted her. She never heard from him again.
And that's why you don't use your real name when you answer to strangers.
37-y/o sh!t-for-brains sounds like an angry BASEMENT-DWELLING PORN-INFECTED INCEL -- here's hoping he doesn't have an arsenal of firearms to take out his misogynistic fury.
If only all men pulling this c**p had easily available mothers to contact.
Guy posted on Facebook she just looked at his "friends" list and found his mother.
Load More Replies... 37 can only remind you of Marianne Faithful. Yes, Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
not only am I laughing at the comments IN the story. But I am laughing at the comments ABOUT the story. You guys are complaining about how "boring" this story is yet YOU clicked on it to READ it. Don't complain when you willingly read it. Not to mention the title told you exactly what was going to happen therefore you can't even pretend to act shocked. hahaha wow.
Glad you went to the mom. Sadly, I'm not sure if it will matter, considering she raised a man who obviously didn't think twice about trying to rip the reviewer apart over her opinion. I don't agree with the review of Days Gone, but it's a freggin game. When are some people going to realize that when they lash out like that, they only serve to make themselves look like a butt-hurt buffoon.
I straight love this. As a gamer I see the idiocy that invades the culture due to anonymity. Me being so far on the other side of it love posts like these. Love her, love her reaction, love the mom's response.
"Maam, he said mean things to meh." Happens everyday in kindergarten... That said, guy does have issues.
Please name the kindergartens your child attends where 5 year old boys are calling little girls "sjw c**t bitches". Do us a solid and share the names/locations so we can avoid those parenting deserts.
Load More Replies... It never fails to amaze me how now a days people get such joy from strangers getting in s**t?
I'm just here to see all the angry comments written by angry men about the article about angry men writing angry comments about an article about somebody else's opinion of a video game. Don't forget to downvote and write angry replies. It nourishes me.
The incels are sure riled up by this post. This comments section is so cringe inducing. Why are people trying to defend this guy? And put down this woman for standing up to a bully? It seems like they are all scared someone is gonna tell their mommies too.
An opinion can't be wrong... people who think otherwise are quite self absorbed.
Load More Replies... Ugh. She is just as bad as he is. "Your being mean to me I'm telling!" I thought this was beat out of us as children by the second grade.
https://www.facebook.com/176270319137347/posts/2434153590015664/?sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=e
ok… someone can tell me what's the problem with girl who likes to game? because i try to find one and i can't
Not a gamer, but sadly I can't count how many times I've been called a fake, because I like LOTR but don't know every minute detail of the entire Tolkien universe. And for some reason it's always coming from men.
Load More Replies... Basically someone said something mean to you and you told their mommy on them?
The only thing the guy did wrong was having his privacy settings so s****y that this girl was able to message his mom.
No Jeff, what he did wrong was to be a misogynist a*****e who said horrible things to a woman. I'm sure you are one of those as well so perhaps you should reconsider your life decisions. Being an incel isn't a good decision but I'm sure you are one.
Load More Replies... A 37 years old guy that uses "Southpark speech" to express his misogynistic opinion qualifies for the title of Incel of this century.
Like others in this post, you don’t seem to understand what misogyny is.
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