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The Emily Show

Blizzard / Activision Sued California over “Frat” Environment and Staggering Harassment

The Emily Show

Baker Media, LLC.

True Crime, Entertainment News, News

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Blizzard/Activision has been sued over allegations of staggering harassment and workplace discrimination that have resulted in female employees being forced to leave their jobs to protect themself and one employee taking her own life. The allegations are triggering and raw, but sadly not unfamiliar to many women in male-dominated fields. Hopefully, this suit will signal to other women in gaming that it may be safe to sue, to push for fair treatment, to end harassment, and to demand equal pay.

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0:00.0

Hey there. Welcome back to this week's episode of The Emily Show. And a quick warning. Today we're

0:05.6

talking about literally all the things because the state of California is suing Activision and Blizzard

0:12.6

for, well, a frat bro culture workplace environment. This is not new in the gaming industry. I'm

0:21.2

going to break down a little bit of the history here and this particular lawsuit. There are, yeah,

0:28.6

there are some pretty staggering facts alleged in this lawsuit based on the department of fair

0:36.2

housings investigation into this company and we'll get back into kind of what that investigation

0:42.4

entailed, but some of the examples that they give are traumatic and involve things like well,

0:49.8

severe sexual harassment and self harm. So just be aware that we are going to be talking about

0:57.2

those topics today so that you can choose if this is the right episode for you. But I think it's

1:02.8

an important conversation to have because male dominated industries replete with sexual harassment

1:10.2

need to be discussed and continue to be discussed and the state taking action on this. This is not

1:14.8

women who have been run out of this company. This is actually an entity of the state of California

1:20.2

taking action here and that's not normally the way we see these things go down. So we just need

1:27.2

to get into it today. We just need to do that. Let's just let's just get into it. Let's do that.

1:33.4

Hey there. Welcome to the Emily show. I'm your host, Emily Debaker, badass lawyer and everyone's

1:39.2

favorite legal commentator breaking down the legal shit in the news and pop culture stories.

1:44.0

You want to talk about I've been a licensed attorney for over 15 years. I'm a former prosecutor

1:49.5

and I'm a big fan of the Chrissy words. So let's break it down.

2:00.0

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2:06.0

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2:13.7

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2:18.8

while longer before it gets tucked away until next summer back into the vault, if you will. So

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