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:
Some Gal, I totally misread that as “Womanhood Places” and thought “Ewww, I don’t want to store bonbons there.”
From one guy on the comments thread at Pharyngula. He goes on for a while, this is just from his first comment.
Blitzgal, yeah… He’s not too bright on concepts such as shape, color, time or logic. Expecting him to know what freedom of speech is… eh.
I think my favorite are the ones that are whining about how much money she made and how the video totally isn’t worth it. Other people paid more than I would have for a product I didn’t want! Waaaah!
sooo glad I finished my drinking when I read that. *immature giggles*
[blockquote]Choking on self-imposed forever-alone virginity… Huh. More power to ya.[/blockquote]
Could we please not virgin shame, I understand the temptation to pull ad hominem attacks on MRAs, gods, I’ve wanted to do it myself from time to time, but if we succumb, we only end up bringing ourselves down to their level.
In other news, here’s TJ The Amazing MRAtheist being his entitled, misogynist-in-denial, self: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfkS9YS_T0k
I also fail at blockquotes lately.
As someone on Tumblr said, this is “men.txt”. Or at least “cismen.txt”. The obliviousness of how grinding and awful constant death and rape threats can be is something that can only be seen in men who have never had to deal with people constantly discussing seriously hurting you in a sexualized manner.
Virgin shame? It’s no shame to be a virgin, except if you’re an absolute asshole who repel any advance. Which was the point. Not that I don’t get yours.
Fair enough, I guess I’ve been spending a bit too much time around youtube and facebook flame wars, It’s kind of become a force of habit.
@The Kittehs’
That reminds me if a bit in Coupling where Patrick mishears “Why don’t men like snuggling?” As “Why don’t men like smuggling?” and includes in his answer that men have fewer “concealment crevices.”
/Moffat fan
Other than that, all I can think about is yeast infections which are not very funny.
“Fair enough, I guess I’ve been spending a bit too much time around youtube and facebook flame wars, It’s kind of become a force of habit.”
You delve into Youtube comments? WHY? Protect your sanity!
I love that the people who say, “She trolled for offensive comments so she could have the moneeeeeez” are most likely the ones complaining now about her disabling comments.
“Other than that, all I can think about is yeast infections which are not very funny.”
Never worked in a bakery, eh?
Sometimes I get bored and like to drink tears of impotent MRA rage.
@Michael
Even if you mean well, your comment was still hurtful. It is virgin-shaming and that’s not on.
I cannot put into words the disappointment I feel. I was going to sell all my worldly goods and move there,
Kim, I wasn’t shaming him for being a virgin. There’d be no point, and yes it would be wrong.I was mocking him for his idea that women somehow prolong his virginity by refusing to sleep with him.
I don’t know where Michael has come from with his dubious jokes, but I wish he’d go back there.
Who’s idea? That seems to be something you’ve inferred. Either way, not on.
This one certainly isn’t the whiniest, but I did find it amusing that they have never heard a feminist complaint about any of the misogyny in pop or general or high culture. Nope, their first exposure was Sarkeesian and videogames.
All of society is misogynistic and caters to me. Why can’t games do it too? 🙁
defskyoen at Forbes.
Other than that, defskyoen basically says all the same things about Sarkeesian *gasp* seeking attention for her project, implies that she asked for the threats (shocker) and that she then made money because of them *gasp*.
I just find the lack of awareness of anything that has been happening in feminism (or, for that matter, academia and elementary/secondary education) for at least fifty years oddly charming. Like Brendan Fraser in Blast from the Past, but with hatred.
hellkell, I agree. Sorry. That was inferred.
@some gal
not the whiniest, but definitely facepalm worthy.
I didn’t read Michael’s joke as virgin-shaming – and I am virgin, too, by any physical standards. I read it as creepy MRA shaming: the why of guys like this being alone, not the fact of it. Which might be splitting hairs, I dunno.
Some Gal: “That reminds me if a bit in Coupling where Patrick mishears “Why don’t men like snuggling?” As “Why don’t men like smuggling?” and includes in his answer that men have fewer “concealment crevices.”
LOL! And now I’m thinking of smuggling as in Devon and Cornwall and West Country accents. Arrr!