Pour one out for a real one

It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Ok this is slightly embarrassing but the first time I heard of Anita Sarkeesian was from a Hbomberguy video

    • Owl [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I first heard about her on ShitRedditSays, before everyone flipped the fuck out.

      I thought her videos were kind of boring feminism-101 stuff that should be uncontroversial and nobody could possibly need.

      Whoops.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I thought her videos would be super edgy based on how the gamersphere was acting about it. I watched it and it was clear she wasn't super familiar with the games and was only doing a mild critique.

        It was deeply disappointing.

        • Comp4 [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah you would think Anita is a hardcore feminist but she holds pretty tame positions. Which makes it baffling that gamers got this assblasted about her.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      I mean that's way healthier than me. The first time I heard of her was assholes spamming /v/ with threads about how some youtuber I never heard of was going to DESTROY VIDYA by pointing out that their depictions of women were regressive and immature.

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      27 days ago

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      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        1 year ago

        to be clear Anita Sarkeesian doesn't have anything directly to do with Depression Quest. That was a game by Zoe Quinn. Sarkeesian was targeted by a harassment campaign before Gamergate proper.

        • Othello
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          27 days ago

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          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            It's okay, it's easy to get misogynistic harassment campaigns mixed up

        • booty [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Calling them Jim Sterling is not dead-naming.

          My name is James Stephanie Sterling, but Jim Sterling remains the "brand" name. Jim, James, James Stephanie, Stephanie, Steph.
          Take your pick!

          https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1355989748846907401

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      This isn’t that weird. If you’re not a gamer - and most people aren’t - the whole gamergate thing is pretty unknown.