John Romero's Wives
There comes a time when you're more angry than tired
There comes a point where sitting in silence is more terrifying than standing and speaking
The games industry is a man in love with his libido
I have a libido
Had to be joked away at conferences
Had to be scrolled past on internet forums
Had to be hissed under your breath
Had to be leant over a keyboard at 3am
Had to be seen in the statistics
Had to be segregated in schools
Had to be guided away from the sciences
Had to be a self-taught programmer
Our apathy and the games industry are in cahoots
Had to be Jenn Frank's endless patience
Had to be Leigh Alexander on a Bombcast
Had to be Mattie Brice making a game so she could finally be the main character
Had to be Mattie's game misattributed to Merritt Kopas
Had to be Merritt's game misattributed to me
Had to be unable to make room for more than one trans game designer
Had to be Lara Croft shipwrecked on an island of rapists
Had to be David Cage's sex bot begging for her life
Had to be protected by a man
Had to be marooned on Makeb
Had to be games where women moan when they're shot
Had to be Remember Me rejected because a woman protagonist makes it gay
Had to be Rhianna Pratchett asking "but what if the player's female?"
Had to be a Mojang security guard asking "what do you expect me to do?"
Had to be the forty hottest women in tech
Had to be fake geek girls
Brenda Braithwaite can't bring her daughter to E3
Had to be moaned through knees in the bath
Had to be screamed into a pillow
Had to be rewritten a hundred times
Had to be deleted before I clicked "send"
Had to be in fear
Had to be fat, ugly or slutty
Had to be told I'm really a man
Had to be asked why my name doesn't match my ID
Had to be a feminazi slut
Had to be an attention whore
Had to be obsessed with my own sexuality
Had to be on display
Had to be a torso on a shelf
Had to be mistaken for a booth babe
Had to be told to stop talking about it
Had to be told "this isn't an intelligent conversation"
Had to be told to get your husband's permission before posting on the internet
Had to be verbally abused
Had to be clogging Patricia Hernandez's inbox
Had to be Lana Polansky scared to talk about sex
Had to be Tracey afraid to comment on her own site
Had to be Dani Bunten denied her own name
Had to be the indie game developer who told my friend she could give him a blowjob
Had to be Adria losing her job because she said "no more"
Anita Sarkeesian's face is bruised
Had to be rage
Had to be fear
Had to be scared to use the bathroom
Had to be silenced
Had to make a rape joke
Had to put it on a t-shirt
Had to get your wife to insist that you're not sexist
Had to refuse to call Dys4ia a game
Had to deny that Tentacle Bento is a game about rape
Had to leave two hundred comments on an open letter to Destructoid
Had to hate other women because you were taught to
Had to call us "females" like we're another species
Had to give me a panic attack
Had to push me out of the chair and play the game for me
Had to take away my agency
Had to take away my identity
Had to be John Romero's wife
Had to be John Romero's wives
All had to be John Romero's wives
All had to be John Romero's wives
taken from http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-03-hothead-rants-pt-3-anna-anthropy
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