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.

We need to shift how we viewed wages. There’s a cultural association between money and worth: The higher you’re paid, the more valuable of a person you are. But that association is arbitrary.