Anita Sarkeesian is very much a liberal feminist lacking a lot in her critiques of video games. that said, this woman became a fucking pariah for millions of angry young men who harassed and attacked her for years, and still do even, because she took the most bland feminist critiques of their video games and said they were kinda shitty to women. not to boycott games, not to attack the people who played them as evil, just to take a critical look at the media people consume with a feminist lense. and then they all became nazis because this was too much
Yeah, I tried watching her because the right people hated her, but it was pretty bad. She obviously hadn't played the games she was critiquing (for example she criticized white Supremacy in Bioshock infinite) and the production value was low.
But I think she inspired a movement, and there are more game critics now, folks like Errant Signal (their video on Civilization is very good), TUN, Jimquisition and HBomberGuy.
I just realized my list is -all- 3/4 Male, does anyone have any good game critics who are women?
Yeah, it's white supremacist in the sense that it both sides things, but she was pointing at the games depictions of white supremacists and going "look! White Supremacy!" Which like, yeah, there's going to be white supremacists in a game about white supremacy being bad.
Yeah, I tried watching her because the right people hated her, but it was pretty bad. She obviously hadn’t played the games she was critiquing (for example she criticized white Supremacy in Bioshock infinite) and the production value was low.
I typically abstain discussing Sarkeesian because at this point its a third rail and no matter what criticism you might have of her, the reaction was absurdly horrifically disproportionate and she is unquestionably a victim.
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But yeah, that was always my issue with her content also. I know feelings towards Lindsay Ellis are mixed but like her or not you can tell she's 100% a film/media person through and through who genuinely loves movies while also offering a woman's perspective and feminist take on them and damnit I consider myself a fan even if she does have some bad takes now and then. I suppose it is gatekeeping...but I just don't feel the same way towards Sarkeesian.
Ellis is entertaining and right like 95% of the time. Anyone who's putting their takes out on the internet 24/7 is going to have a couple bad ones. Also she's a lib and that doesn't help.
But the twitter backlash was way disproportionate.
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Braver than the troops. And the cops. And the woke FBI girl who’s reading this :)
For real she has had death threats and the cops just shrugged them off. Seriously an amazingly brave woman.
Anita Sarkeesian is very much a liberal feminist lacking a lot in her critiques of video games. that said, this woman became a fucking pariah for millions of angry young men who harassed and attacked her for years, and still do even, because she took the most bland feminist critiques of their video games and said they were kinda shitty to women. not to boycott games, not to attack the people who played them as evil, just to take a critical look at the media people consume with a feminist lense. and then they all became nazis because this was too much
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Yeah, I tried watching her because the right people hated her, but it was pretty bad. She obviously hadn't played the games she was critiquing (for example she criticized white Supremacy in Bioshock infinite) and the production value was low.
But I think she inspired a movement, and there are more game critics now, folks like Errant Signal (their video on Civilization is very good), TUN, Jimquisition and HBomberGuy.
I just realized my list is
-all-3/4 Male, does anyone have any good game critics who are women?Jimquisition is no longer male, they are non binary now 😎
Neat!
I haven't seen any of her videos, but this seems like a plausible take to me?
Like the whole second half of that game is about Black revolutionaries who somehow turn evil as soon as they try to take power.
Yeah, it's white supremacist in the sense that it both sides things, but she was pointing at the games depictions of white supremacists and going "look! White Supremacy!" Which like, yeah, there's going to be white supremacists in a game about white supremacy being bad.
Ah that makes sense
I typically abstain discussing Sarkeesian because at this point its a third rail and no matter what criticism you might have of her, the reaction was absurdly horrifically disproportionate and she is unquestionably a victim.
....
But yeah, that was always my issue with her content also. I know feelings towards Lindsay Ellis are mixed but like her or not you can tell she's 100% a film/media person through and through who genuinely loves movies while also offering a woman's perspective and feminist take on them and damnit I consider myself a fan even if she does have some bad takes now and then. I suppose it is gatekeeping...but I just don't feel the same way towards Sarkeesian.
Ellis is entertaining and right like 95% of the time. Anyone who's putting their takes out on the internet 24/7 is going to have a couple bad ones. Also she's a lib and that doesn't help.
But the twitter backlash was way disproportionate.
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