Anita Sarkeesian on ABC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ

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Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

of the first order

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acts like a pussy to get pussy

we see you nigga

for the worst reasons.

no one cares about you.

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youre following the Sarkeesian scam artist and happily being taken

soooooo

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People were clowning him. But damn if there doesn't seem to be a big market for it.

I didn't realize a bunch of people actually use those old school style arcade things

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the people who are into it are SUPER INTO IT

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

>I didn't realize a bunch of people actually use those old
>school style arcade things

sheeeeeeeeeeeit, on eBay you should see what they go for
and in 2009 it was ridiculous until the manufacturers addressed the issue

it'll blow up again in a year after SFV comes out; they're trying to crossover into eSports

i'm curious.

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As a black man I find myself hard pressed to feel sympathy for most white women. I'm not going to defend that belief either, it's narrow minded and at times petty.
When I see a situation like this, I look at reddit in general, they don't even roll with US much, so why should I be up in arms for how they treat others?

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The white woman who's been accused of sleeping around the gamer industry to get good reviews and that situation blew up from a Reddit post.

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Woops.

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and people gave her a lot of money

that's it.

she asked for $6k to make her videos, people gave her $158k

so that makes her a scam artist.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games

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for a thing

but some people are really, really upset about it. weirdly, they're not the people who gave her the money.

wonder why

that said - I didn't back it and don't usually do kickstarters for a number of reasons, but that's really whatever.

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did she lie to anyone on it?

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But we can use her as an example.
She has a goal to make some videos and she wants to raise $6,000 to do it. Cool.
What is the other $153,000 going to be used for. There is no plan for it.

Sure people gave it to her, and that's their prerogative.
But I think there should be a limit on how much you can raise relative to the goal you set.

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and I think kickstarter, indiegogo , and patreon are more concerned about getting their cut, than fixing the inherent problems

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seeing that she's blown way past her goal, does that make her scummy?
you have all the info and you still decide to give.

No different than standing on the corner with a coffee can and a sign, getting cash from people walking by. Then rolling home in your new car.

She's definitely not scamming anyone because the donators know exactly what they're getting into.
There's just something wrong (in my opinion) about taking people's money for no reason other than that they are willing to give it away.

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The panhandler is deceiving people by making people think he needs money whereas this lady isn't trying to trick anyone.

But the point I'm getting at is that they are both taking money from people when they don't truly need it.

Just because people are willing to give you money doesn't mean that it is right to take it.

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What other activities are you talking about?

I'm talking about a specific thing. Accepting donations.
Just because people are willing to donate money to you does not mean you are right to accept it.

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then she offers a one dimensional critique of video gaming culture

but you can't say the truth, so you gotta go down the talking points

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http://youtu.be/t6_ijRDHDb8?t=56s

straight from the talking points. bruh, I've seen it. you have nothing

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she's not a gamer, and doesnt even really like games

you really crushing on her, huh?

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for me its the fact that she's a feminist critic of gaming.....who doesnt allow any criticism of her assertions

dare to criticize her and youre automatically a misogynist harasser

and her critiques are weak as hell

saving the princess in mario bros. is a major misogynist action according to her

SHE DOESN'T OPEN HER COMMENTS

so she's a scam artist

just tell the truth and stop the lies that don't make sense.

you feel powerless (for whatever reason, c'mon bro, get better at life), and you're upset that she's acting like she has any power at all

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just answer a critic

answer a refutation of your work

are we just supposed to take her word for it?

even when she's misrepresenting alot of the games she's covering in her vids?

because no one has asked you.

but instead you/yall desperately attack her personally

c'mon tell the truth

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you caping real hard fam

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my feeling is that "criticism" of her work is rooted in a fear that somehow her work is going to irreversibly damage and/or change for the worse the white male-dominated gaming culture, as if she's making this stuff up in order to ruin games for everyone

I KNOW I CONSTANTLY SAY GAMING IS TERRIBLE AND EVERYTHING IS PAID FOR WITH TEH MONEYHATZ AND THERE'S TOO MUCH CALL OF DOOTY BUT IT'S DEFINITELY NOT MISOGYNISTIC OR RACIST AT ALL THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM IN GAMING

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but unfortunately the few negative things i see about her on the web seem to come from people who post like angry 14 year olds (even if they may be 35). so it's hard for me to ascertain what may actually be wrong with her (if anything at all)

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but I really thought she wasn't going deep enough w/ her criticism in the early ones.

she was focused on the breath and normality of the treatment of women in games, which I get, but I didn't think it was the best way to go about it

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for mainstream America, but it doesn't mean they aren't worth discussing.

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or a whole damn video series

big surprise, a genre which is mainly marketed to men have a skewed/idealized portrayal of women

hell i should start a video series about the portrayal of men in romance novels

kickstarter here i come!

then I got $5 on it, link?

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and I'm willing to put my own money on the line to make it happen.

that's like the opposite of harassment

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to be racist?

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but i wouldnt expect that movie to have a black woman's point of view

I expect American Sniper directed by Clint Eastwood who spoke at the Republican convention to be 'America, Fuck Yeah!'

this response is so ridiculous
you coming from a place of gender privilege

>but unfortunately the few negative things i see about her on
>the web seem to come from people who post like angry 14 year
>olds (even if they may be 35). so it's hard for me to
>ascertain what may actually be wrong with her (if anything at
>all)

but my feeling is that they feel threatened from an "outsider" perspective that is shining light on some real issues inherent in a medium whose creators are almost exclusively male, and cater to a mostly white male audience

as for her work, she sometimes omits or twists facts in order to suit her points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPSrwedvsg#t=1044

in the above video she intimates that the actions the video game player can take against the NPCs (non-player characters) are exclusive to women NPCs and encouraged by the game designers. but they aren't. those actions are gender-agnostic and they are encouraged only in the sense that the game allows it. there's no tutorial for taking those actions and the games give no reward for them

but at the same time, she's not exactly wrong about what some gamers may feel compelled to do because the game presents those particular female NPCs in such a sexual manner and lets the player know that they are indeed disposable (like most of the other NPCs, including male ones)

better if they were more focused, she tried to slam everything in all the time and often I felt like it missed

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but i still find her work compelling. i've found myself reflecting on my in-game actions after watching her videos. maybe that's her real goal and she accomplishes that via getting people to pay attention to her work by "being wrong on the internet"

in that it's kind of bs when you point it at one thing?

but when you sit back and realize how many them (movies/games) are like that?

it's like ...shit man.


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>in that it's kind of bs when you point it at one thing?
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>but when you sit back and realize how many them (movies/games)
>are like that?

even beyond movies and games. the discussion is worth having IMO

you poor gullible mans yous

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You agree right?


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the threats are fucked up

but she shouldn't use that as an excuse not to answer her critics

No idea if she's a good critic or not, but lets say she's a silly blogger and non gamer who's simply using feminism as a cheap way to find topics and denegrates videogames for being sexist.

The problem is the extremely sexist reaction...PROVES THE POINT, lol.

She may have been a dickhead using a relative unique vantage point in gaming to push ahead of her career, but how easy y'all jumped in the pool says much more about the community then her, even if she's being opportunistic.

Not like the doritosgate* nigga was getting death or rape threats, lol.


*For those of you in the audience that have lives, a similar 'you're a coporate shill' accusation made towards a popular male video game journalist a few years back when he popped up with more branding on a screen(of mostly doritios) that makes Nascar jackets look 'minimal'

>the threats are fucked up
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>but she shouldn't use that as an excuse not to answer her
>critics

>The problem is the extremely sexist reaction...PROVES THE
>POINT, lol.

no it really doesnt

it proves there's trolls on the internet

and anybody with common sense should be able to discern a troll from a legitimate critique

Hard to put on her.

She isn't a hard core gamer? Why is that relevant or important?

I haven't seen any criticism that goes to the core of her critique (i.e., it's a bad thing that GTA makes a game of killing and beating hookers).

I will acknowledge that I haven't really been following this so I am open to being schooled.

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thunderf00t has a whole series of videos on her:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thunderf00t+anita+sarkeesian

There are a bunch of other people as well

http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2013/02/24/im-a-feminist-gamerand-im-over-anita-sarkeesian/

basically its someone outside of the community launching a critique of that community and not allowing a critique of her critique