I honestly thought the whole "there are no girls on the internet" thing had died and gone away. It clearly has not. There are so many preconcieved notions and assumptions about online gamers in games like World of Warcraft floating around. This article is a good read, and seems to tie into our readings from the last unit we covered.
Whitney talks about what its like to be a girl on the internet and in an MMORPG like World of Warcraft. She talks about getting called a slut just for being a high level character in game. Despite WOW being a general escape from reality for so many people, women still can't escape slut-shaming and sexism.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_17/109-OMG-Girlz-Dont-Exist-on-teh-Intarweb-1
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