I must confess that I haven’t paid much attention at all to “Gamergate,” nor do I know or care about the feminist critique of the video game industry, because I don’t care a great deal about that industry at all. If I did care about the indutry or its critics, I might know the name Anita Sarkeesian and think she is something of a big deal, as some others apparently do.

Sarkeesian is quite controversial in those (largely virtual) world, and regularly receives death threats. Law enforcement seems to think that these anonymous threats have little merit, and some critics seem to …read more