So Anita Sarkeesian, who apparently didn’t run off with all her Kickstarter money to found a Misandist Gynarchy in the wilds of Canada, has released the first video in her Tropes vs Women in Video Games project. (I’ve embedded it below.)
Naturally, this is causing great consternation in certain corners of the Internet (*cough* Reddit *cough cough* everywhere else that misogynistic nerds congregate *cough*). In the Man Boobz forum, Katz has started a contest to see who can find “the whiniest, brattiest, most entitled response” to Sarkeesian’s video on the Internet. So far Katz and Myoo have found a couple classic comments from irate Sarkeeianaphobes:
[H]ow does one go about stating that genders and gender roles are social constructs? I mean is evolution nothing to her? Does the patriarchy make male peacocks dress provocatively?
Yes. Yes it does.
And:
I’m gradually losing respect for the opposite sex. I’ve unfollowed people on tumblr who talk about how great she is, because it actually causes bile to rise in to my throat.
Yeah, that’s a totally reasonable response to a woman making a video about video games.
So anyway, I’m thinking we should bring the contest over here.
See what you can find! Consider it a sort of scavenger hunt.
Here’s my contribution, from the Men’s Rights subreddit, complaining that Damsels in Distress are the truly privileged ones:
Amazingly, this acutally got called out on r/mr as being pretty damn stupid.
Also, I have another question, to add to the stack of other questions I’ve been asking lately: Just why do you think so many guys get so angry when girls and women invade what they consider a male sphere, like gaming? (Also, why do they consider gaming to belong to boys and men?)
Oh, and here’s the video that’s causing all this hubbub:
Those look cute, it’s a shame I can’t wear them…and the price tag is super huge.
So Do Re was one of those ‘prove me wrong’ trolls. The fact that women (and men and people of other genders, but I’m guessing he was thinking women) don’t react well to sexism proves the mras where right? I mean, if mras say women don’t like sexism, then they’re probably right but…idk. go away Do Re, you are annoying.
As my first flounce rating (if no one minds) I give you a 3 out of ten, you at least revealed why you were here, but you were as boring as hell, and totally unoriginal.
@viscaria
those heels are cute.
And why spikes?
All it needs is a carving of a cheese and it would be something made in Dwarf Fortress.
See you around, Do Re Mi, maybe next time you won’t be like all our other trolls.
Actually these appalled me even more than the no-heel heels. Baby booties for adults.
http://www.dsw.com/shoe/hello+kitty+anne+bootie?prodId=257693&productRef=SEARCH
that is a great way to phrase what he was saying.
@cassandra says
that…that is a very strange shoe. I suppose my inability to understand it is why I will never be a fashion expert.
Those R2 shoes are cute, but I’d be afraid of breaking the little R2 off. 🙁
… Anybody else think that shoe looks like foot binding?
Hey, I write for a fashion magazine and I think all of these are sartorial abominations.
Good LORD.
Me too, they seem like you would only be able to wear them once (for your Star Wars garden party?) and then you would destroy them.
@Marie: I think the R2 is glued to the actual heel, which is a relief because I was afraid the R2 was load-bearing.
But yeah, I can see someone catching their heel on something and breaking the droid off.
@cassandra says
huh. I didn’t know you wrote for a fashion magazine. I guess you have a better fashion sense than whoever made that? Though now I’m wondering how those shoes do get made….
Oh hey, I found a version of the bamboo-looking ballet flat that has a heel of moderate height, so apparently they do still exist.
http://www.dsw.com/shoe/sofft+scafati+cork+pump?prodId=dsw12prod4170218&category=cat20006&activeCats=cat10006,cat20006
@falconer
oh, yay that R2’s not supporting the weight.
Idk I’m charmed by the baby booties for adults..maybe I am weird.
Glued? The article mentions needing a MIG welder O_O
(how does one make those “disturbed eyes” emoticons with the little curl off the top of the “eyes”?)
This reminds me of a plunger (the kind you get in a coffee pot, not the toilet bowl kind).
http://www.dsw.com/shoe/jessica+simpson+carlow+sandal?prodId=265243&category=cat20006&activeCats=cat10006,cat20006
McQueen knockoff that should never have trickled down from the runway.
Aw, Do Re Me Me ME is butthurt because the wimminz didn’t fall all over him to heal his psychic boo-boos. He really wants to change, but only if us bitches coddle the shit out of him.
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@ falconer
I wish I knew how to make those eyes. I always just settle for O_O or O_o
I get the heel but no heel thing for a fashion show, I’m just not sure how someone is supposed to, say, walk rapidly down the stairs in them.
Hah! The ; is important!
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How did you do that? /envy
preemptive grimace.
Fashion is always a good barometer for where women are at. It seems the more gains we make, the clothing and shoes get more restrictive.
@Marie: I found the code on Wikipedia.
It’s ಠ followed by a ; without a space.
S! M! R! T!
Maybe the reason I haven’t seen anyone out and about in those shoes is that anyone who’s tried is now sitting at home with a broken ankle.
@ falconer
it is, you’re right
;_;