Ah, all the poor male gamers having their pet misogyny project blow up in their faces. Yep, you dudes are for sure are ruining Anita Sarkessian’s career. Keep the hate-train going maybe you can get her into the NYT again, or Le Monde or Time or… really the sky is the limit.
*basking in the sweet sweet schadenfreude*
Good Job Gamer Gaters – You may have to blame Anita for starting GG as well, because she must have started it, just look at all the publicity, fame and money she’s getting…
Anyhow, here is the first paragraph from Rolling Stone…go there and catch the rest of the article. :)
“She started with a YouTube account and wound up on the front page of the New York Times. In between, all that the Canadian-American feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian did, via her video series Feminist Frequency, was calmly, comprehensively collect and explain examples of the shoddy portrayal of women in video games. Titled “Tropes vs. Women,” her series on gaming pointed out that the roles most often available to women — from princesses to be rescued to prostitutes to be murdered — are both sexist and unimaginative. If these roles were rethought, diversified and expanded, Sarkeesian argues, gaming’s creative class and audience would be diversified and expanded in turn, and games would become more fun to boot.”



3 comments
October 20, 2014 at 2:54 am
bleatmop
I hope the shitheads that threatened a school shooting beyond imagine last weekend if she spoke there get caught by the FBI and disappear in prison for the rest of their lives.
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October 20, 2014 at 9:04 am
The Arbourist
@bleatmop
Me too. These fine “gamers” need to wake up and smell the fact that they crossed one to many lines and should face the consequences of their cowardly actions in a court of law.
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October 23, 2014 at 6:14 pm
Reneta Scian
Agreed, 100%. Though I will say, “gamer” is a word that is loosing its meaning because it’s no longer a niché group. All people can, or do enjoy video games. It’s a human thing, not a hobby that is enjoyed by any minority group. It belongs to all of humanity, not to some group of puerile male-bodied misogynists and that’s the way it should be and should remain. As such, misogyny should have no place in gaming, if you ask me. I don’t think it belonged there to begin with, even if men were the only one who played.
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