Woooaahh.. someone just had to go and bring up the Anita Sarkeesian thing, didn't they? Do I really want to dive into this can of worms?
*thinks about it* ... meh, what the hell huh? I've got nothing better to do right now lol

Ok firstly, I'm going to start out by saying I basically agree with everything Misato's saying above. No sense in repeating what's already been said so I'll just leave it at that (just watch - I'm probably going to end up repeating half of it anyway because I'm derpy like that lol

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Secondly, I'd like to jump in and pick up on this:
Quote from: VeryGnawty on September 05, 2014, 05:34:16 PM
The difference is that Anita has been getting a lot of attention from people for the flak, ridicule, trolling, and threats that she receives. When Jack Thompson got death threats, nobody really cared. If anything, Jack Thompson is the one who should have been decrying sexism. He said blatantly foolish things, got death threats in response, and people laughed at him. Anita Sarkeesian said blatantly foolish things, got death threats, and everyone is concerned. So, it's clear that the sexism is actually against MEN since there's little significant difference between the kind of stuff Sarkeesian proclaims and the stuff that Jack Thompson would always say. When people make mock games where you get to beat up Jack Thompson, it's just good fun. When someone made a mock game where you beat up Anita Sarkeesian, it is violent sexism against women.
It's a double-standard. I don't do double-standard. I hold everyone to the same standard, which is why Sarkeesian will have to come up with better arguments if she wants me to take her seriously. There is an issue with sexism in society, but raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to make one-sided biased videos is not the way to address it.
So hang on a moment hun, you're saying because one person decided not to make a fuss when they were being abused, that everyone else should just "deal with it" when they suffer the same treatment? By all means tell me if I'm putting words into your mouth here (because I don't want to do that, especially these kinds of words), but that's certainly how this post is reading to me. And if that is what you're saying, then quite frankly I couldn't possibly disagree with you more!
Death and rape threats (etc) against *ANYONE* isn't cool, whatever way you cut it. I agree with you that things should be equal across the board, but if I'm understanding your post correctly then I'd say you've gone in the exact opposite direction - women shouldn't shut up about it because "this stuff happens to men and no one kicks up a fuss", but rather it should be "let's kick up a fuss when this happens to men too".
Also, how "credible" these threats are is pretty much irrelevant. At the end of the day, any threat to compromise your personal safety or the personal safety of those around you is just that: A THREAT
define: threatQuote
A threat is an act of coercion wherein an act is proposed to elicit a negative response. It is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. It can be a crime in many jurisdictions. Threat (intimidation) is widely seen in animals, particularly in a ritualized form, chiefly in order to avoid the unnecessary physical violence that can lead to physical damage or death of both conflicting parties.
Some of the more common types of threats forbidden by law are those made with an intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage or to compel a person to act against his or her will. In all states, it is an offense to threaten to (1) use a deadly weapon on another person; (2) injure another's person or property; or (3) injure another's reputation. [1]
The whole point is to "..communicate intent to inflict harm or loss on another person". If someone threatens to murder or rape you, that's something to take seriously, even if it's on the internet. You have no way of knowing if they have the capability to follow through with it, so until you know otherwise you can only assume that the threat is real.
As for your anecdote about being given a death threat that wasn't followed through - congrats, you've just fallen into confirmation bias yourself hun. As a counter example - a guy and his friends threatened to beat me up once. Moments later (when I continued to stand my ground and defy them), they did. Cool story huh? Not the only time it's happened either. Want an example specifically regarding a death threat? Need I point any further than terrorists who threaten to blow ->-bleeped-<- up, and then do? Or take a hostage, threaten to kill them if their demands aren't met, and then proceed to actually kill them when their demands aren't met? (like, you know all these beheadings of western journalists that have been in the news the past week or so) ..You get the point.
Sometimes, threats are empty, it's true. Sometimes, they're not, and your personal safety is really at risk. Until we invent some technology to read people's minds and their actual intents, how do we know which ones are real and which ones are not? And yes, many on the internet do like to say these things just to troll and get attention, but when you're getting a thousand of these threats every day, even if 99.9% of them are just trolls looking for attention, that's still one person every day who actually genuinely feels like that, which is a statistic that would terrify the crap out of any sane person. And don't tell me Sarkeesian doesn't get that kinda volume of threat. Just go to the comment section on pretty much any of her videos to see it's right up there, maybe even higher (and that's *just* the comments, never mind what she gets in PM, email, posts on all the internet forums etc out there..)
It's your opinion hun, and I respect that (kinda, sorta lol), but (assuming I've not completely misread what you're saying), I totally disagree with you.
Regardless:
<3 *hugs and love to you* <3 
P.S. wow, this post got really huge really quickly lol