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:
Clifford: do you have a morning height?
At least he’s trying to keep his creepy obsession with Cassandra in check. Progress?
Argenti – yeah, I’m thinking so, too.
How are the bras in the student laundry these days, Mr ClodAl?
@Kitteh’s Unpaid Help:
But he’s so funny! Granted, in an unintentional way. I mean, come on, this is my monday night entertainment.
Though I still am waiting for the explanation as to how physics and youtube comments are the same thing. I could ask my mom, though she’s a biochemist not a physics, but she’s had work published and peer reviewed and stuff, which is I am sure just as vigorous a process as youtube comments go through.
At this rate Mr Al will be able to claim he’s 90% of our trolls.
@Fade
But I thought a phd meant you could give an xpert opinion on evrything XD?
The peer review process is worthless unless you allow the people reviewing your work to send you rape threats.
Oh, guys, guys, look! I’ve finally, FINALLY gotten a troll of my very own!
…this isn’t as exciting as I thought it would be.
That one might be true actually.
Kitteh wins the internet, we can all go home!
Cockbite, uh I mean, Cliff — why aren’t you debating LBT? Dude, you’re making yourself look bad.
Ninety percent of emo bands are shit, by the way.
Fade, you’ll wait forever for a troll to answer questions, let alone explain anything. 😀
Have you seen Mr Al’s older posts? He claimed to have a lazy eye that made him OMG QUASIMODO’S UGLIER BROTHER and that women spat on him in the streets. And that being 5′ 8″ (his morning height, presumably) practically made him a dwarf, hence more spitting.
@LBT
…Congratulations? I think…
Incorrect! In my opinion it’s at least 97%. Two sides, etc.
LBT — wait for meltdown, that’s when it really gets fun.
Time to meltdown prediction?
Whoot, I won an internet! 😀
I could ask my mom, though she’s a biochemist not a physics, but she’s had work published and peer reviewed and stuff, which is I am sure just as vigorous a process as youtube comments go through.
YouTube peer review: ur g@y
…Damn, that is indistinguishable from the scientific process!
@Kitteh.
Randomness: My brother has a lazy eye. He has never really talked about it except to try to convince us to do “one eyed staring contests” because he could do it easier than us. 😛
I think it takes them longer to hit meltdown if they know we’re waiting for it to happen. Like water boiling.
Nawh, 85%! Pell, NWO, Om Nom, DKM, Virgil, scrapemind, all the drive-by trolls…
Should that be 93.5%, or something? Compromise, y’know.
…talacaris the utterly forgettable
The Naïf
Etc
@kittehs
*giggles* Man, I’m so vindictive, every time some one (usually a man) complains about something above 5’5″ being ‘like a dwarf’ I just point and laugh. I laugh at shorter heights too, when I’m more vindictive.
I’m not that short (average for usian woman). about 5’3″. But I soooo don’t care if a guy thinks he’s short. I know men are on average taller than women, I’m just all ‘zero fucks given’.
/rambles.
Also, my brother has a lazy eye, and hardly anyone’s spit on him in the streets. Though he is 5’11″… hmmmmm *deep thinking*
Pell is always fun because of his grandiose claims that get sillier and sillier.
Fade – LOL!
My boss has a lazy eye. I better not read him this thread. 😉
The only decimals allowed on Manboobz is 99.9%! Of women are terrible! So sayeth assfax.