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:
Hug at pubic level? As in around the hips?
Clifford made my vagina wet.*
*With urine. I was laughing so hard I peed myself
I guess so. Outside of the femurs, not the pelvis, but still hips, yes.
In other news, my vagina had a great day and wanted you all to know.
You peed into your vagina? Can you teach me how that’s done?
Pussies.
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@marinerachel I am wearing underwear and pants. Everything tends to get wet if you wet your pants.
Nice pussy…yeah that feels dirty, even in reference to the cat in the joke picture…
So I was just playing in tvtropes looking for a Reid-centric Criminal Minds (cuz I really will take men either lanky or plump isn’t even the right word…undefined? Enough to hold onto? Y’all know what I mean!) — my favorite lanky geek boy aside though, I click “but liquor is quicker” and it’s about “loosen inhibitions” with a bit about specifically for sex…no real world examples, that’s stat rape in many jurisdictions and might open a few cans of worms. Yeah, the wording could be stronger, but fuck, they get that getting someone drunk to enable sex is rape, it’s a goddamned start.
“But liquor is quicker” reads as an Ozzy/suicide reference to me.
(Not that you’re wrong, just having a metalhead moment.)
Really? Because I always go to “candy is dandy but liquor is quicker” — Wonka style. (Oh Christ, the movie while tripping…Pure Imagination is probably my favorite song ever now, because of what it represents…and that sounds like I’m way drunker than I am…)
I think the actual line is “wine is fine but whiskey is quicker”.
Hey, did Pell have to go work at the gym (‘cos gyms totally offer jobs to anyone who happens to be working out there) after he got booted from his *mumblemumble* job at *mumblemumble* university for trying to grope the students?
Hey, he always has his part time job as a doctor/psychiatrist to fall back on!
Poor confused MontyCliffordPell, one minute it’s all “I’m so ripped and gorgeous women’s vaginas get all wet when I walk down the street, because SCIENCE” and the next it’s all “oooh ick stop talking about your disgusting gushy vaginas”.
Which reinforces my suspicion that little Pelly boy never has and never will have anything to do with a vagina.
Go buy a Fleshlight, kid. Just remember, you’ll have to clean it yourself, though. OH THE MISANDRY!
I don’t think they let people buy those until they’re a little older…
(I’m guessing he’s 16, tops.)
“And when I say “I” what I mean is my vagina. My vagina just got home, and my vagina is drunk.”
Shame cloudiah, you mean you let your vagina go out drinking all on its own???
“I don’t think they let people buy those until they’re a little older…
(I’m guessing he’s 16, tops.)”
Maybe Uncle Monty can buy one for him.
…Again?
And while I was gone? Again?
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He’s doing you a favour, katz – gotta keep all us unemployed people occupied, y’know!
I still think it might be one guy with 50 different internet personas and a really creepy obsession with this blog.
He is the 99% …
Kitteh just an another internet.
katz — at least he was quick to Pelltdown (whoever said that? best term ever) — women like blonde white buff men with muscles and blue eyes, even if they say otherwise; he’s working on his 7th and 8th abs and works at a gym. And idk how much of it matters, but that rant about two sides to everything. Check the other current threads too, he dropped one or two comments in basically all of them.
Twice for a recycled joke, I am teh GREEN internet winner!
::strains brain:: I can’t recall who invented Pelltdown. I remember seeing it but not who should be congratulated.
If he thinks Mr’s dyeing his hair blonde just to prove a point, he can think again. Blech!
OK, that was totally worth staying up for. He’s in rare form. The thing I love about Pell is that, every time, he makes up a different specialty for himself. Anyone want to bet on what he’ll pick next? Remember, law, medicine, computer science, statistics, psychiatry, photography, gaming, and now exercise have all been done.
Hmm, well, probably not music, because of the “you’d be famous” problem. Nor politics, same reason. But something prestigious, at least in a subculture…general though, works at gym, doctor, law, not personally trainer or yogi or anything, nor neurosurgeon or family doctor or ER, nor divorce lawyer, litigator, etc.
Probably just giving him tips >.<
All in all, up and coming sports, business something or other prestigious but unspecified, entrepreneur who won’t say what field because we might steal his idea (actually, probably that one, unless he’s smart enough to avoid my guesses)
Whatever it is, I’m sure it will be something he thinks people respect, maybe something he aspires to be (6 pack? wishes he worked out more // wasn’t so lazy), but general enough to fudge around when called out or questioned.
/armchair psych
So this is M. Al pretending to be Pell, right?
AL: get a life, you sad bastard with piss poor boundaries and negative self-esteem. If this the only way you can get women to talk to you, you may want to have a think about your life choices. I’m so tired of your shit.
Mine too. My vagina secretly rules the world, though.