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:
When has obvious refutability ever stopped him? He claimed his family came over on the friggin’ Mayflower.
Ooh, I’ve got it: Pilot or astronaut.
So I checked and Pell was definitely using blockquotes before he went into full melt-down mode, which reinforces my belief that he likes getting caught. Thank goodness I wasn’t that obnoxious as a teen.
So I checked and Pell was definitely using blockquotes before he went into full melt-down mode, which reinforces my belief that he likes getting caught. Thank goodness I wasn’t that obnoxious as a teen.
@viscaria
No worries, I ended up doing just that XD lets see how the troll went w/o me. Super long comment ahead, because the moment I think a response I tend to type it.
@clifford
… Armstrong? http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2zpgiE5Hl1qezk6n.gif
Ok, now I just know you’re making things up.
Can my fatmobile stop somewhere else? I don’t like mcdonalds.
Ohmygod, this is perfect XD. Even in the winter?
ok, it would be harder to see pecs on a woman with bigger boobs, since they’d be, you know, covering her pecs.
I’m am 95% sure if there was only one way for humans to evolve a butt more of us would look like that. Also “evolution designed”? omg is it sentient now?
Shit, I just died laughing XD
you…you really have no idea how evolution works, do you?
Don’t go telling us how wet our vaginas are if we aren’t allowed to correct you 😉
So glad I wasn’t drinking anything XD
Yeah, you should probably ask Evolution to replace it for you.
XD I cannot believe I missed this thread! Curse you, sleep! Curse you!
But vagina’s are so gross guys!!!!eleven!!!1
*continues being sad that I missed this XD*
I best liked the part where he totally misunderstood why peeps were staring at him on the street.
It is kind of funny that one of our trolls is now pretending to be one of our other trolls. Unless..dun dun dun!…they’ve both always been the same guy, which would be both hilarious and really sad.
Fuck was that Mr. Al? Dude seriously needs therapy, proto.
Wow. Just caught up with the thread — all the bits that came after I went to bed. Was that troll the same one who barged in on another thread and started poo-poohing Chris Hemsworth? Because cliffy’s idea of the superior “blueprint” for a man sounded an awful lot like Thor. But then he claimed to look like Thor, more or less, then proceeded to curse us damn females for liking those Valhalla types — which is weird, because he freaking claimed to look just like Thor.
Naturally vagina talk warded him away — just like the infamous pube warding spell that kept baby cynic temporarily at bay. Funny, they’re obsessed with getting laid, but seem to be geuinely terrified and disgusted by the actual bits they’d have contact with if they should ever find themselves getting any… or that vaginas are paired with an actual human person who has opinions and thinks. That must be frustrating.
@ Shiraz
We’re working on a new theory that we only have a couple of trolls and they each have eleventy billion different personas.
Nah, I don’t think it’s Mr. Al. It’s a classic Pelltdown start to finish and I honestly don’t think Al has ever been that good at socking.
OK. Well, the fat-shaming came out of left field.
“You women are fat, and I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!” In the meantime, he’s blessed with guns. *giggle*
Shiraz – “But then he claimed to look like Thor, more or less, then proceeded to curse us damn females for liking those Valhalla types — which is weird, because he freaking claimed to look just like Thor.”
Could be that even though he looks totally like Thor, women ignore him (or point and laugh) anyway. 😉
Shiraz: LOL at “pube warding spell.” So true.
The Pube Terror thread was wonderful.
Well, he has previously gone off on fat women (and accused women who disagreed with him of being fat).
Kitteh:
That or he was lying…I mean, he actually sounded like someone who would cannibalize Hemsworth just to obtain his magic Alpha properties.
Hellkell, I can’t help it…that was a good time!
Lying? A troll lying?
::faints::
*catching you*
And there we have it — a trust fall!
All we’re saying is, maybe someone should warn the Hemsworth brothers about the kid who might try to eat their livers as a way to get taller and more buff. You know, just in case.
A trust fall?
FEED ME CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES TO RESTORE MY FAITH
@Kitteh. here you go *Handing you a cookie*
Cassandra, I’d hate to write that email/letter:
Dear Hemsworth Brothers, your lives are in danger…”
*nom nom nom*
Goddammit, I MISSED the peltdown! I am so sad! But I really was falling asleep at the keyboard.
My junk is also sad, but that is for entirely different reasons. (Going off hormones, I’ve discovered, has called me some issues that I didn’t expect. Or maybe Pell just cured me of my libido.)
Always too horny? Feel like your libido is interfering with your ability to work or study? Ask your doctor about Pell today! Guaranteed to kill any libido in 15 minutes or less.
😀 😀 😀