Frankly, the amount of people who are willing to welcome Won back to esports with open arms disgusts me.

The money and playerbase of esports are now being used to power the U.S. war machine.

Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.

Gatekeeping, misogyny and sexism are prevalent within science-fiction communities and fanbases. Refusing to acknowledge a character’s power is just a symptom of these sexist behaviors.