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:
I saw the best pair of boots this morning – knee high at least, deep green polished boots, the feet shaped like formal riding boots. Sadly I couldn’t wear them, but they were to die for.
These are the ones I wear to kick around in when I want to be goth and girly but I don’t want to risk messing up my nice purple suede boots.
http://www.dsw.com/shoe/diba+new+cee+cee+24416+pleated+boot?prodId=195463
Since it’s bugging pentapus I figure I’ll talk about shoes too (I think I was talking about them earlier here anyway XD) I just got some nice flats, kind of cute. I saw these amazing heels which were pink with little black bows and sticthing on them but I couldn’t walk in the ;_;
I just went shoe shopping this weekend, so um yay?
Actually I have to thank pentapus and people like her for helping me to fully embrace my femmey tendencies. After a while their internalized misogyny and pathetic begging for scraps of approval from any man who’d listen were so embarrassing to watch that it made me realize how stupid the whole idea that femininity is bad was.
Aw man, I’m useless for talking about shoes. 🙁 All my knowledge about them is orthopedic shit, and few people outside that profession care much about THAT.
Though I’m kinda surprised that I somehow missed all this shoe talk from you guys. Thought we were about CATS. Did I miss the Hive Mind newsletter again?
@LBT
Apparently 😛 Everyone linked to shoes that are super cute but way to expensive to buy. (some of them were actually probably reasonable, I’m just remembering that pair that was over 1000$. O_o)
The ass-kissing, eeesssh, it’s exhausting to read:
“I share the same gender as she but other than that I havenothing in common. Such behavior on her part is off-putting and disappointing to me as well. Sadly, yes, she DOES epitomise everything MRAs bitch and moan about, but in my experience, she’s not the norm….”
Please stop.
“She’s the female equivalent of an MRA. Again, from the FEMALE team or whatever, I apologize on her behalf.”
Please?
“It really irked me to have some stranger jump all over another stranger about the use of the word FEMALE to describe a FEMALE! SMH.
Oh, look at you letigating the shit out of the “female” thing.
“Especially on a site like this, which, at least where the actual articles is concerned, is great for bringing up necessary conversations. Too bad this conversation has had page after page drowning in talk about SHOES. SHOES, people!”
Um, I know straight guys who like shoes. I know straight guys who like clothes. Are we allowed to talk about jock itch without invoking your disdain? Or baseball? Or whatever else might make a boy slap you on the back and say, “Heh, you’re one of us — you’re not like the rest of THEM.”
*eyeroll*
RE: Marie
I admit to having a completely irrational liking for huge clunky motorcycle boots that are absurdly overpriced and probably incredibly uncomfortable to wear.
I CAN’T HELP IT. I GOT BIKER RELATIVES. IT’S INGRAINED. *sobsobsob*
@shiraz
Good work on trying to wade through puntapus’s shit stain of a comment. Tbh, I kinda skimmed 😉
@LBT
BUT THOSE BOOTS SOUND SO NICE! (except the uncomfy part) HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LIKE THEM!!!!!
Hehe. You found one of the kinds of shoes I loooooovvvveeee.
LBT – we’re about cats AND shoes.
Sometimes they overlap.
If I saw those on a person irl I’d think I was having a drug flashback.
I’m caught somewhere between “d’aww” and “OH THE HORROR!!”
Or they overlap like this.
And fuck, I want my drug flashbacks already, they sound so much better than the regular kind! (Those shoes are creepy though, not sure why, but they are)
RE: Kittehs
Oh god, those shoes are scary. I thought you’d just be putting up images to pink kitten Mary Janes! (One of my co-students back in high school had a pair. They were quite endearing, though I would never wear them myself. Sneak thought they were cool though.)
Wow, Sarkeesian’s channel is locked down. Both comments and ratings disabled.
Maybe you missed how she gotta rape and death threats and someone made a damned game with the premise of beating her face bloody? Yes, she locked down her channel, who wouldn’t if it was that or rape and death threats?
RE: Argenti
Yeah, can’t say I blame her. Hell, I’m considering turning off comments for Cracks of Sunshine, and I haven’t even been trolled. I’m just getting lots of spambots and am sick of CHEAP NIKES!!!!1
Wow, Clifford! WOOOOOOOOOOW.
How terrible of her to do that. I guess that justifies another round of death threats, then.
RE: CassandraSays
Admittedly, I HAVE encountered someone who just got angrier and angrier the more I didn’t respond to them, but I consider that a rarity. Usually, completely killing comments helps clear things. Cut the fuel from the troll engine, you know?
So Sarkeesian is apparently unable to respond to incoherent death threats?
Logically, you’d think that it would be a golden opportunity for her to engage the idiots in a debate and beat them, and make herself look good. Instead the comments are disabled. Hmm. Maybe they aren’t so incoherent?
Viscaria, this made me laugh: “Wow, Clifford! WOOOOOOOOOOW.”
Especially if you read it in a snarky teenage voice.
Logically, Clifford, you should just shut the fuck up.
Cliff, comments like “Die cunt, die” don’t exactly qualify as Jedi debating skills.
Clifford, why would anyone want to waste their time responding to a bunch of death threats? Even if it’s not emotionally tiring (which I’d assume it is) there isn’t an argument to be had with people who think you should be dead.