Content warning: This article features references to harassment, abuse and sexual assault.
Despite the many cases of harassment and abuse exposed in the games industry over the past few years, and the subsequent calls to address these behaviours, fresh reports continue to emerge from each major event, highlighting the systemic roots of the problems.
Many of those roots were discussed earlier this year at a Reboot Develop Blue session, fittingly titled ‘WTF, it’s 2023: Conversations we (still) need to have about being a woman in the games industry.’ GamesIndustry.biz caught up with the panellists shortly after, and they suggested many ways in which men should change their behaviour to not only prevent this harassment from happening, but also better support and protect the women being targeted.
