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:
Meltdown commencing.
My, my, Clodford’s really struggling now. Poor troll. Why not save time and go straight into meltdown? Quicker for you, just as entertaining for us.
@Viscaria
It certainly is a decrease in originality from earlier. Not that he was incredibly original earlier. :XD:
The more of a lazy failure one is, the easier he is to insult. This is a generally applicable truism.
Dang, go to bed, or see if cifford melts down. Dilemmas in life.
It’s Pell. Our first encounter turned into a long drawn out rant about all the things disabled people get. Either that was a generic knock at me being online at 11:30 pm meaning I’m unemployed, or he knows I’m unemployed cuz disabled levels of nuts = Pell.
Relatedly, I scheduled with new-psych earlier, hopefully I won’t have to do yet another intake as it’s the same clinic.
Kitteh — you mentioned it, idk if I heard the full story though.
I feel generally applicable truism should be our new meme thing XD Sadly I cannot know why. It just amused me. One is easy to amuse, I suppose, when one should be sleeping.
@Argenti Aertheri
Yay for new psych? Have you met them yet, to know if they’re better than the old one?
Marie — it’s hilarious because we all know that 90% of everything is bad, so 90% of truisms are wrong and not generally true. (Actually, that might just be correct, when you account for bigoted “truisms”)
Oooh! What kinds of free stuff do we* get?
*Using we liberally here, because I am not sure if I am disabled. I cannot always walk around, sometimes I have to use a wheelchair or scooter, but not that often, so I’m confused.
Nope, next week, and the vocational counsellor later this week. Not sure if we’re working on “make a phone call without panicking” or “be able to form a sentence in an interview”
Fade — that scooter for one. Also free drugs (actually, I do get meds free, cuz generics), free clothing (huh what?), food stamps, free housing, a bunch more stuff, let me find the thread, it’s in the biography of Pell.
@argenti aertheri
Well, good luck with your psych 🙂 I’m not entirely sure I understood the last part of your post, but my reading comprehension shoots down when I’m sleepy, so hopefully all will be clear in the morning.
Our trolls are deeply unhappy people. This is a generally applicable truism.
And, I sadly decided that if I’m having such a hard time following I should go to bed. See you all later, poke the troll for me and all that stuff 😀
But if it was actually free they would’ve let me take it home! XD Seriously, though, I loved that wheel chair. First time going shopping with family without having to lean on people or walk really slowly in years!
*dreams wistfully*
Now I’m debating whether to read some old Pell threads….
@Marie, having been where you are now, I would suggest go to bed before future-you gets super mad. But maybe future-you is more forgiving than future-me!
Clifford the Regular-Sized Purple Troll said:
I’m the laziest fucking person in the whole world. I work because I have bills and shit. I am lucky that I am able to work, and lucky that I found a job. Not getting that lucky doesn’t make you lazier than me.
Sloths aren’t even lazier than me.
The thread where Uncle Monty made an appearance was worth reading.
Fade — that incarnation of Pell starts here — http://manboobz.com/2012/05/09/womens-suffrage-still-controversial-apparently/comment-page-2/#comment-152644 — and devolves from there, most of the disability stuff is the next page (warning, the ableism and classism is piled high)
Are these guys the ones who say like “just talk to people and get our or your shell” or am I misremembering something.
Also, seconding my sisters wishes for good luck.
“The more of a lazy failure one is, the easier he is to insult. This is a generally applicable truism.”
You really need to stop talking to the mirror, sunshine.
Argenti – it was early in Victoria and Albert’s marriage, mid-1840s I think. Victoria had copped some flak from the press about looking tired and out of sorts during an official visit (to Coburg, I think). She asked what on earth she was supposed to do about that, and Albert said (I’m paraphrasing) “You’re supposed to have a fixed smile like the ballerinas at the opera” – and got up, spun up into a prodigious pirouette and landed on one foot with the other leg stretched behind him, all with a huge fixed smile. This came after a heavy dinner and was described by Lady Lyttleton, who was in charge of their kids.
I just love the image of Albert being young and silly!
Argenti
Thanks for the link
*rubs hands with glee and commences to read*
I hope this is as funny as it was last easter! (This is the easter miracle thread, right?)
Also, holy crap, I just realized I’ve been lurking a long time. It’s almost easter again!
Who is Pell? Your pathetic little guessing game is stupid. Get a hobby kid.
“Sloths aren’t even lazier than me.”
Will you be offended if I say that they are cuter?
WHICH IS IT JOB OR HOBBY I AM SO CONFUSED