No one actually fucking likes him, right? None of us were excited to cast that vote or we just wanted Trump out, right. Like at the end of the day, that is the win, that Trump is no longer going to be president for another four years. But I really urge everyone to understand that we elected a old white dude that is a career politician deeply rooted in pro-war neoliberal philosophies. Not just not having Trump isn't enough.

And I'm really also tired of people being like "well we got to get a Democrat in, because we can fight, as the left we can push Democrats and get them to do the things we want them to do". Which is what you say every fucking election and it never works. - Anita Sarkeesian on the election

  • keki_ya [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    honestly kinda crazy how my view of her has changed after moving left. As a teenager I was a pretty left-wing but didn't like SJWs for some reason, and I thought she was a wacko. Eventually I turned 15 and my critical thinking skills started to actually develop, and now I don't really mind her work.

    • bigbologna [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      when I was like 13 or 14 and in the midst of my anti-SJW phase I had a seething hatred for her but I had seen literally 0 seconds of any of her content and might as well have been mad at a person someone made up. god this is actually painful to think about, what a fucking awful little gamer I was

      • keki_ya [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I don't feel super bad, I don't think brains are super developed at 13. Nothing even changed about my environment to make me go leftward, I literally just hit the period of development where I could think things out better.

    • captchaintherye [any]
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      4 years ago

      I think she's kind of an intellectual lightweight and most of her stuff is just fluff. I read it and watched it extensively when right wingers were obsessively dunking on her, and it was weird how much they were triggered by her, but I was left feeling very "meh" about it.

      But I do think it's hilarious how much she drives incels batshit crazy.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, for how much of a shit storm she kicked up I remember going back to watch it one day and thinking that a lot of the critique just kind of... sucked?

        Idk, it's still important to do this critique and I'll take it over "My 20 Hour Review of The Last Jedi" but it's not overly great.

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          When they first came out, I kinda assumed her videos were trying to use video games to introduce people to basic feminist critiques of media, rather than a rigorous analysis of games themselves.

          Then I saw the response from g*mers and realized even that was too deep a dive for some people. Like, most of her points seemed really fucking obvious to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the medium, yet they were (and probably still are) losing their goddamn minds over it.

          • Rem [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            That's what really blew my mind, like I knew she was a gamer bogeywoman (I actually thought she was the woman from Gamergate because I couldn't be assed to keep this stuff straight) but when I read her "incredibly offensive sjw" stuff it was literally just baby's first media criticism.

            No shade, it's good to make content that's digestible for people who have no experience analyzing media, but it was crazy to me how takes as inoffensive as "video games are marketed toward men and this is reflected in their content as X Y and Z" were treated as if they were these wild inflammatory statements.

            • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              And the weird thing is that guys like Sargon and Thunderfoot will even say "Yeah no shit games are marketed towards men, that's capitalism" but then still completely lose their minds over her videos.