The feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has been forced to cancel a planned lecture in Utah after threats of a shooting massacre. Sarkeesian has long faced bomb, death and rape threats from online harassers opposed to her critiques of sexism in video games. This week, Sarkeesian was scheduled to give a lecture at Utah State University when the university received an email threatening to carry out “the deadliest shooting in American history” at the event. The email sender wrote “feminists have ruined my life and I will have my revenge.” He used the moniker Marc Lepine, the name of a man who killed 14 women in a mass shooting in Montreal in 1989. Sarkeesian canceled the talk after being told that under Utah law, police could not prevent people from bringing guns. A university spokesperson told the Standard-Examiner newspaper the school had determined it was safe for Sarkeesian to speak because: “The threat we received is not out of the norm for (this woman).”