So Angry Harry, the dotty old British uncle of the Men’s Rights movement, has a post up vaguely warning that the virus software company Symantec just might soon have some sort of shareholders revolt on its hands because it dared to put a bunch of men’s rights sites on a “hate sites” blacklist, blocking access to them for some users of Symantec’s Rulespace software.
That’s kind of an old whine at this point, but what captured my fancy was this recent discussion about Harry’s article in the Men’s Rights subreddit.
Oh, where to begin with all this? I’m charmed, of course, by the idea that feminism is just ruining things — ruining things! — for all the nice ladies in the tech world. I mean, it’s not like feminists have anything to complain about with regard to sexism amongst male techies. They’re just complainy complainers. Ladies in tech are doing just fine, thanks! Don’t take their word for it. Take the word of some random dude in the Men’s Rights subreddit for it.
But the real treat here is Hamakua’s nightmare vision of an army of secret “imbedded” Anita Sarkeesians infiltrating major corporations and … doing what, exactly? Secretly making videos about sexist tropes in video games in hidden compartments underneath their desks, like that secret nap compartment George had built under his desk at work on Seinfeld?
Beware the stealth Sarkeesians!
(Found this through the AgainstMensRights subreddit.)
Non-racist games? Dragon Age Origins, Fallout series. Choose your character, what they look like, etc. Dragon Age and others like it (D&D) have different races, but they tend to be not-racist but instead are elves, dwarves, etc. I miss those kinds of games.
*reads comment in a badly dubbed voice, grabs popcorn*
Are we going to be imagining some kind of low budget Kung Fu movie fight scene between David and this guy? Because I’m in if we are.
Sarkeesian’s videos are slick, but that no accomplishment, because she raked in a cool $ten million$ from the credulous dolts of the femosphere. Her videos are vacuous crap, beneath the sheen.
RE: laserqueen
Note that I haven’t actually PLAYED these games. My comp is WAY too old, so it can’t play the new Alice, and though I’m asking around my gamer buddies, I haven’t yet managed to find a used copy of the old game. (Hope I do, though; Gigi never asks for anything and it’d be nice to get her a present. She LOVES the series.)
The first one, as far as I can tell, has solid gameplay, great visuals (for the time), amazing music, and the story’s pretty awesome. The second clears up some hang-ups I had about the first game, continues the story well, with less solid gameplay, but BEAUTIFUL art direction. Obviously, I can’t speak for the controls, but from what I’ve seen and heard, I think both games are worth your time.
As for games I enjoy–me and Sneak are the only gamers here, and we tend to enjoy point-and-click adventure games and platformers. Games that reward exploration. No violence is a plus. Our available platforms are computer (from ’05), PS1, and NES.
Desperater and Desperater – It’s the new movie about PUAs.
“desperater”
“credulous”
“vacuous”
We have an interesting fellow here.
@LBT: The Binding of Isaac? It doesn’t require a very powerful PC (Its requirements are Windows XP, 2.5 GHz processor, 1GB memory, 50MB HDD space, and a DirectX9 compatible card). It’s a lot like the first Legend of Zelda but with randomly generated levels like in roguelikes like Nethack. Exploration can be either rewarding or can screw you over, depending on what the level’s like. Its storyline is minimalistic, lets the player figure it out, although it is pretty obviously about an abused child.
@Ally, thanks for clarifying that for me. 🙂 I thought you had to be the same person, but I didn’t want to make assumptions.
Screaming Fist said:
[citation needed]
Can we start a Kickstarter to get Fisty a dictionary? Because he doesn’t seem to know what “credulous” means.
@AK: He’s most likely talking about the Kickstarter. Although really, if a bunch of dudes didn’t completely lose their shit over it, there’s no way she would’ve made that much. So thanks.
RE: Cthulu’s Intern
I’ve seen Binding of Isaac! But no way can I play it; our processor is 1.4 Ghz. It’d sob little digital tears.
@Screaming Fist
It sounds like you’re jealous of her success. If you think it’s easy to make videos like hers and make big money, then why don’t you do it? If you think that’s being a sell out, then make some videos, get a million dollars, and then donate your earnings to a charity.
And yes, it’s obvious that a lot of Sarkeesian’s critics haven’t watched her videos. In the one about the damsel in distress trope, she says several times that she enjoys some of the video games that use it, like Zelda or Mario. She’s mainly saying “Hey, this is overused. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a woman be the hero saving a man for once?” But jerks will just assume she’s saying “Let’s confiscate all video games and burn them! Grrrl power!”
Oh dear god, is how much money Sarkeesian raised going to be the next “JtO was threatened with knives and clubs?”
When I’m not covering my shift as David, I’m the one who is infiltrating the entire gaming and tech industry with my insidious Feminist ideology. Shocking, I know, but I am now unmasked. Curse those MRAs! And their dog too!
If you think it’s easy to make videos like hers and make big money, then why don’t you do it?
Sarkeesian panders to our feminist, anti-male society and naturally reaps in the $money$. I don’t know if she really believes what she says, but her Politics make it fairly easy for her.
As a men’s rights activist, I can’t do that- society is against us.
I, Anita Sarkeesian, will raise one billion dollars!
(You may not be able to see it but I’m doing the Dr Evil pinkie thing so hard right now.)
“$money$”
$Look at how obnoxious I am.$
?What’s next? Questions with question marks all around them?
Hmmmm, I wonder why that would be?
Society is anti-male? When did that happen? I’ve never felt it, in fact, in my lifetime it’s been quite the opposite.
I live in Texas, where the (male) gov. just called a special session to override women’s voices here. Hardly anti-male.
It’s not like it’s hard to look up. $158,922. 1/62 what Screaming Fist said.
It’s so reflective of their general mindset- that quote about having a whole sub-department set up just to look for hate speech websites? I mean, how exhausting must it be to live with that degree of paranoia infiltrating even your thoughts about how a video game development company might run itself? How germane is it even to their enjoyment of the games? I don’t see them swarming around actual problems like sweatshops producing the ill fitting pants they wear. It’s like a peculiar addiction.
Since when did Anita raise 10 million dollars?
Also whenever anyone prefaces a large amount of money with the phrase “a cool” it makes them sound like a British tabloid. No-one else uses that phrase, genuinely, I have never heard anyone say that out loud.
This is how I picture Screaming Fist.
Yeah, I figured he had to be talking about her Kickstarter. I just can’t fathom how he arrived at $10 million. I did a bit of Googling out of curiosity and that seems inflated even by Manosphere standards.