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:
My vagina is trying to decide whether or not to have my period! (Well, my uterus and its attendant LH and FSH hormones are trying to decide, but whatev.)
Seconded.
Too bad I do not have unsolicited vagina updates atm. Curse you female privilege, I thought you were supposed to do everything for me!
Bodsworth — ahh yes, that makes it a 1/10 flounce, I missed the ~2 min gap while typing. Though I’ll argue it wasn’t 120 seconds but more like a well timed 65.
This is for you, Cliff!
I’ve heard about men’s boners half a dozen times already today when I didn’t care to. I’m up for hearing about someone’s vagina for once.
this is a female “feminist” myth. this doesnt happen. Females on the other hand talk about there disgusting vaginas constantly. gross and pathetic. Get a life, no one cares that Trent Dickson made you leak.
I would love to see Clifford living in the opposite of this world where women just loudly joked about their vaginas all day long. Saw men walking by and said, “I’d like to put that in my vagina.” Where we just talked openly about our periods. Hey everyone NATURE JUST GAVE ME THE BIGGEST PERIOD RIGHT NOW!
@Clifford, I already cited a quote today from a youtuber who mentioned his boner at least six times in one comment section and twice in the chunk of his nonsense that I quoted.
Omg, what is it with misogynists and referring to vaginas as “leaking” or “gushing” or “niagra falls” or “erupting” or w/e. I have been aroused occasionally, and believe me VAGINAS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY
Aren’t we supposed to be getting gina tingles or something? I forget how that goes.
Night Shiraz!
And sorry guys, my pantsfeelings tend more towards the slightly plump male presenting, swooning over the androgynous, and skirts and boots and legs to show them off on the female presenting, near as I can tell this does hold regardless what’s actually there for dangly bits.
So, my vagina is having a pretty good day. Not great, because Mr C worked late, but not bad.
Who is Trent Dickson?
And sorry guys, my pantsfeelings tend more towards the slightly plump male presenting, swooning over the androgynous, and skirts and boots and legs to show them off on the female presenting, near as I can tell this does hold regardless what’s actually there for dangly bits.
you are wrong. This is not what you like. You like blonde white buff men with muscles and blue eys.
Co-worker interrupted my teaching him an important skill today to ask how old I was. “Oh,” he said, “you don’t sound 23. You’re very well-spoken, like you were 28 or so. And you carry yourself well.” Reminded me of creepy guys on the bus telling 14-year-old me how mature I was.
Pell, my gods, use quote marks or blockquotes or something!
These — “” — or these — <blockquote></blockquote>
I can plainly see that you have a functional ” key as you keep using it for feminist/feminism. Use it for quotes!
My vagina still wants to know what Cliffie thinks my job and BMI are. My vagina inquires purely in the interest of scientific curiosity.
I got a plumber to come fix my vagina recently so it hasn’t been leaking so much.
I’m starting to wonder if the theory that Kittehs proposed earlier is correct.
White blond?
/gets aryan*-eque vibes…. *creepy*
*that’s what you call it, right? When people are all “white blond guys are the ideal human being”?
Also, do try to keep capitalization consistent.
My vagina doesn’t seem to respond to blond men at all. Is it broken?
I’ll let the boyfriend know that I only like white men, thanks to evolution. Le sigh; I wish I’d known that before I started dating interracially!
Psychic now eh? Cuz I can safely say that the only buff man who’s ever given me pantsfeelings is the good Captain Jack Harkness. Who is, you know, fictional, not that Barrowman isn’t good looking or anything, but idk, the characterization is what really does it.
Is ten buff? Cuz I always figured more lanky? And like Rose more anyways…
Wait, but if all of our preferences are dictated by evolution and humans originated in Africa, why do we prefer white guys?
I think I see where they get the term feminazi from now. We all apparently have the dating preferences of Hitler.