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
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.
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.
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.
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.