Ashley Judd Is Wrong About Video Games

In a TED talk that's been making the rounds recently, actress Ashley Judd took a stab at the video game industry saying that "profiteering off misogyny in video games must end." "I'm so tired of hearing you talk to me about how deplorable #GamerGate was when you're still making billions of dollars off games that maim and dump women for sport," she said. As the Italians would say. Misogyny in video games is vastly overblown by members of the press---both mainstream and within the video game press itself---and by celebrities and activists. I can only surmise that Judd, in this instance, is referring to Grand Theft Auto, the lowest of low-hanging fruit when it comes to criticizing video games for misogyny.