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.
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.
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.
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.
Ok this is slightly embarrassing but the first time I heard of Anita Sarkeesian was from a Hbomberguy video
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read that as DESTROY NVIDIA at first
same, I played depression quest and everything and didnt hear about her till years later.
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.
good to know!
It's okay, it's easy to get misogynistic harassment campaigns mixed up
I heard about her from a Jim Sterling video, and it was and still is probably the best take on the whole situation.
Please do not dead-name.
Calling them Jim Sterling is not dead-naming.
https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1355989748846907401
Thanks for the back-up! linking the video again, because I stand by what I said.
This isn’t that weird. If you’re not a gamer - and most people aren’t - the whole gamergate thing is pretty unknown.