Written by Redwood
September 3, 1997

This is an editorial from the Quake Women's Forum on the slimey individuals harassing the nice women that are online:

When Dhab posted his artwork of HellKitten, HellKitten began receiving emails and messages as a response. This week I learned that those emails turned into "foul, disgusting, sexually perverted emails and altered images" of HellKitten. At first HellKitten's response was, what I think any woman's response would be: She removed her personal pictures from her www page.
After a few days, and some positive responses from people, HellKitten decided to put her "pictures back up despite the offensive emails, because I am not letting those immature scum hurt my page". As of today, HellKitten has again removed all photo's from her www page, since she continues to receive emails of her face pasted on porn pics, included with threats to send the pics to newsgroups.

My question to those immature scum is why? Why did some people in the Quake Community feel they had the right to violate a player by sticking her "real" face on a sex pic. I know some of you out there, believe sexual harassment in the Quake Community is not really happening, because you've never experienced it, but HellKitten's experience definitely proves otherwise.

This sort of behavior should not be tolerated, and a statement needs to be made by the women and men of the Quake Community.

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