"The backlash is less surprising if you remember Tropes vs. Women In Video Games as the Kickstarter campaign that incensed some gamers so much that they targeted Sarkeesian with extreme online harassment, much of which is chronicled by Helen Lewis at The New Statesman. (Warning: It’s pretty vile.) To cite a few examples: there were malicious edits on her Wikipedia page, violent and sexist comments made about her on YouTube (and just about everywhere else online), rape and death threats sent her way, and someone even made a game on Newgrounds in which you could punch her in the face until she was bruised and bloody."

Stuff like this makes me think that we're probably not much better than the people in the middle east/south asia who have these kinds of attitudes towards women. One wonders what it is about our society that at least keeps these sorts of attitudes from boiling over into the physical violence you see over there. Maybe we can build on that.