Episode 260: Sexual Harassment in the Games Industry
Waypoint Radio
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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning for discussions of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault - segment ends 27 minutes in.
In the past week, we've seen a slew of survivors of sexual assault and harassment in the games industry take to social media to speak about their traumas. As this wave of accusations began, Motherboard's Lauren Kaori Gurley spoke with three of the survivors. She's joined by Danielle, Rob, Patrick, and Cado as they discuss sexual harassment in the workplace and the power dynamics that surround it.
After the break, Danielle brings us the aptly seasonal Knights and Bikes, with a touch of nostalgia for times past and summer's end. Rob, Patrick, and Cado are playing Control, or is the game playing them? Then Patrick and Cado talk about the Pinball Roguelike Creature in the Well, and just how imprecise the Switch's analog sticks feel all of a sudden. Then we take a quick dip in the question bucket, and pour one out for all our lost save files.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Rob from Waypoint, quick content warning up front here. If you haven't already heard, |
| 0:04.8 | there's been a wave of sexual misconduct stories in the games industry of late. We're going to be |
| 0:08.8 | talking about that to lead off today's Waypoint radio. So let this serve as a content warning for |
| 0:14.0 | discussions of sexual violence and harassment and other forms of workplace abuse. In the second |
| 0:19.5 | deal here, Cotto give you a timestamp. You want to skip ahead if all that. Then after pause, we'll |
| 0:24.5 | start the show as normal. Hey, everyone. So the timestamp for the end of the discussion around |
| 0:31.9 | sexual assault and sexual harassment is at 27 minutes in should be safe enough. Give and take a few |
| 0:40.0 | minutes for ads and whatnot. |
| 0:54.8 | Happy Labor Day weekend, Internet. It is Friday, August 30th, 2019, and you are listening to Waypoint |
| 1:08.7 | radio. Episode 260. I'm your host, Rob Zachney, filling in for Austin Walker, who I'm sure feels |
| 1:14.9 | like you picked a hell of a time to go on vacation. Join me this Friday. We've got Patrick Lopich. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello. Daniel Riendo. Hi, hello. We got Cotto watching the signals. Hi. |
| 1:28.4 | And we also welcome aboard Motherboards, Lauren Cowry-Gurley. Lauren, welcome to the podcast. Hello. |
| 1:37.4 | So Lauren's here in part because this week there were some serious allegations of sexual misconduct |
| 1:43.9 | leveled against a number of notable men in the games industry. Lauren wrote a new story when the |
| 1:49.3 | first allegations came out. Patrick, I know you're doing some ongoing reporting, but to lead off here, |
| 1:55.8 | how did this latest Me Too moment in games begin and where has it gone since Lauren's initial story? |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah, it opened with a essay that was written by Natalie Lawhead in which she wrote a, |
| 2:11.2 | a piece called Calling Out My Rapist in which she accused composer James Saul, who is most well-known |
| 2:17.4 | for working on the Elder Scrolls series of sexual assault and lays out a very lengthy piece |
| 2:24.9 | describing even beyond just the allegations of sexual assault, the sort of like workplace mistreatment, |
| 2:31.4 | the difficulty she had in a really toxic environment. From there, that snowballed into a number of |
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