What happened to Jennifer is sad and ridiculous and people should know better but it has little or nothing to do with a sense of entitlement. Rather it's a matter of internet anonymity, sexism, and other factors.
Indeed, the true irony is the sense of entitlement that many Women have in typically male dominated fields. Did you all forget the tweet aimed at Men saying "They're just angry I'm a Woman with a vagina Two things they'll never have." or something similar?
In my ten years of visiting Kotaku I have never once read a front-page article about a male developer suffering a vicious verbal attack, though I have personally been witness to countless around the internet.
On-top of that, she really isn't qualified to write for Video-Games. That's like saying you want to be a comic artist but hate drawing/painting. You're missing out on of the key elements of what makes your particular field unique. Why would she be hired when she blatantly is the exact opposite of qualified for her job is beyond me.
And to add onto Kotick. Bobby was called under question of his appreciation for video games many times, and people were annoyed. He seemed to be in the business for more of a potential for loads of money than to make a successful video game company. This went on for months and still does, but the height of this far passed. Bobby Kotick was also called a cancer, a plight onto video games and everything just as bad as hepler. He too also had acient interviews that were brought up. Except you had the media in a general agreement is that he was a dick but not one worthy of bashing.
He painted a bad picture for Activision among gamers that STILL, to this day is clung onto. Hepler is doing the same, being the exact opposite of an industry worker that has no appreciation for what she does. She wrote The Deep Roads for Dragon Age, a section so terrible Bioware had to make it a selling point that in the sequel that it WOULDN'T SUCK. She is deserving of it all, and I don't feel bad for her.
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