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:
PS. Many also get a pinecone up their butts for the mere suggestion of something being sexist or racist or such, because they think that in order for this to happen, it has to be intentional. It does not. People are sexist and racist and classist and all sorts of things completely without realizing it all the time ! When things are deeply internalized, it’s hard to even notice it. This is why bringing up these tropes and other issues matters. >^.^<
Does baby baobao need a binky and a nap?
Son, you aren’t gonna make anyone bow down and accept anything, get used to it. Typing impotently at people who don’t give a fuck about you and your feels is about the best you’re ever going to do.
But thanks for the early morning chuckle.
Nice of them to rely heavily on internalized stereotypes and excuse everything with “it’s just nature!”
Doing a fantastic job ignoring the reality ! Good job !
Men have sex drives, therefore they will never get to the Moon. Astronauts would kill themselves rather than spend time in space, away from fertile human females.
Is it just me, or is anyone else picturing baobaby as a Bond villain, ranting about how he’s going to take over the world in a hilariously misguided way?
@ hellkell
Did you listen to the song? Seriously, either dude has no self-awareness whatsoever or he thought the nym would be, like, a super ironic commentary on “feminist shaming tactics”.
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I think it is funny because the mentality hierarchy is here to stay isn’t all that different than the mentality that women would never get the right to vote back in the day.
They didn’t think women had anything to complain about when they couldn’t vote either.
Much like the current MRMs talk about the “natural order” of things they thought women not voting was obvious.
No one has to bow down and accept things and if saying that group should bow down and accept things worked we would still have slavery, women would still be bartered for better opportunities, minorities would not have the right to vote ect.
Sorry in advance if my phrasing is odd today. I have been sick all day: headache, fever and tremors.
“Hierarchy and all its implications are here to stay. If not the same hierarchy today, then a different sort tomorrow.”
This might be true. But it’s got shit to do with why you’re stupid.
“Think you can fight the universal male sex drive,”
As someone else in this thread(brilliantly) put it: We share one? I wasn’t aware I was hooked up to a dumbass-machine. Which seems to be your definition of YOUR sexdrive. Don’t extrapolate from your own idiocy.
´”and market force that comes with its demands? Go ahead and try. Once you realize the world isn’t made entirely of simpering, pampered white “men”, you will learn to bow down and accept the status quo.”
Do I even,,, what the.. Yes, THERE IS ONLY ZUUL!
I did. He reminds me of another extremely un-self-aware young man who used to post here.
…and apparently women have no sex drives to cater to 🙂
Is there a factory that churns out these guys, and if so can we persuade it to slow down productions for a while?
Catfish: Apparently Cioababy has missed the 50 Shades phenomenon, which sold like hotcakes and catered to women’s sex drives. Let’s ignore for the moment how colossaly fucked up the relationship in those books are.
@melody
I hope you feel better soon!
No, I checked. They have to meet a quota. Sadly, it’s a vital part of our economy. Recycled bullshit, shortsighted glasses and glue is turned into fine specimens of blatherer men. We’d drown in stupid if the MRA’s didn’t do us all the service of concentrating it on an industrial scale.
I say we just lie about the quota. Comrades, rejoice! Your quota has been reduced by 95%. Also the international quota for pedantic assholes was reached some time ago. All the workers can go on holiday for the next decade.
@hellkell
Erotica has always been popular with women. Women spend over a billion dollars a year on romance novels. And look at the fan fiction that is filling the interwebs.
@some gal
I’m trying to decide if I should call in sick for tonights shift.
I think I may need to see a doctor. Though my fever has leveled out.
Melody: I know that, but our little troll baby seems to have missed that memo.
@melody
I think that if you are in the position to take a sick day (and considering seeing a doctor!), then it is kinder to yourself and your coworkers to call in.
Gross story time. My sister’s coworker brings in a treat she made to share. She passes it out, everybody eats, and then she starts complaining about her sore throat… Now everyone is waiting to see if they will get strep. 🙁
@some gal
I work nights this week (no contact with co-workers and little contact with clients).
I can take the time off I just worry I’ll regret it when it comes time to pay the bills.
My hours this week already got cut from 40 to 30. Which is 100 dollars less than I want to make. Losing another 80 dollars isn’t really something that makes me happy.
I always worry that I’ll get other folks sick. I rarely get sick and therefore I freak out a little when I am sick.
Conflict….I think I can manage, but I suppose if I’m not feeling better by 8pm then I should call in sick. I could make it worse by forcing myself to work.
Some male characters in games are sexualized. The more recent Final Fantasy games for instance have several men that look like Gackt, a Japanese musician known for his sex appeal, and they also have impractical costumes that show off his bod.
And guess what, a lot of male gamers have conniptions over those characters because they “look weak”, or they look “gay” (because games are supposed to be made for men and if there’s an attractive man in it it has to be gay). But if women complain, all of a sudden they’re just making up drama? Yeah, they’re not fooling anyone.
@melody
I didn’t mean to come if lecturey. I normally only have this conversation with my mom and she never takes sick days. Of course, she also hates her coworkers so maybe she secretly wants to get them sick.
*ofoff
That correction was super helpful. 🙁
@some gal
No big deal.
I’m just frustrated because money is a constant problem for me. And my job has fluid hours. Over the holidays: Nov-Jan I was working over 60 hours a week. And the sudden drop off this week of only 30 hours is grating.
My replacement just called and he asked if he could be late to get coffee. He is going to get me a latte too!