Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.

Infighting happens in part because we encourage it. When our politicians never receive real punishments, is it any surprise that we love to see them in subculture?