Same. Remember that flash game they made where they could click on Anita Sarkeesian's face and it blackened and blued and bulged out where you clicked? It was essentially a wife beating simulator and it was disgusting as fuck and they were rejoicing over it like they'd created art.
All because she had the temerity to point out that many videogames treated women like trophies and not like real people. Any man could have pointed that out and they'd have gotten equally mad but because a woman said it they decided to double down and be play up their misogyny as if that was anything but proving her fucking point.
Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."
Same. Remember that flash game they made where they could click on Anita Sarkeesian's face and it blackened and blued and bulged out where you clicked? It was essentially a wife beating simulator and it was disgusting as fuck and they were rejoicing over it like they'd created art.
All because she had the temerity to point out that many videogames treated women like trophies and not like real people. Any man could have pointed that out and they'd have gotten equally mad but because a woman said it they decided to double down and be play up their misogyny as if that was anything but proving her fucking point.
Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."