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.
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.