A Voice for Men’s so-called “Honey Badgers” — its little super-team of female MRAs, led by blabby Canadian videoblogger Karen “GirlWritesWhat” Straughan — have a new theory about Anita Sarkeesian. And it’s a doozy.
Sarkeesian, you may recall, is a feminist cultural critic who’s faced pretty much nonstop harassment from misogynistic internet assholes since she launched a project to dissect sexist tropes in video games. AVFM has contributed, in its own special way, to this wave of harassment, with articles describing Sarkeesian as, among other things, a “moneygrubbing liar” and a “queen bee … girl interloper” in the world of video games; AVFM’s Dean Esmay also held her partially responsible, along with an assortment of other internet feminists, for the suicide of one Canadian Men’s Rights Activist.
The principals at AVFM have blamed her for — either inadvertently or deliberately — bringing this harassment on herself by going to 4chan and posting about her project. (As I noted in a previous post, there’s no actual evidence she ever did this.)
The Honey Badgers, for their part, are certain that getting harassed by 4chaners was part of her devious plan all along.
In a teaser for their internet “radio” show tonight, the “Honey Badger” known as TyphonBlue writes:
Like all professional damsels in distress, Anita Sarkeesian had to choose a good dragon. Just the right looming shadow to fall over her delicate and fragile sensibilities; just the right cackling stage-villain to inspire her cries of helpless horror.
She chose 4-chan. An internet forum known for it’s underbelly of foul-tempered and hair-triggered trolls.
Then, after accusing Sarkeesian of inviting countless rape and death threats upon herself (and only a portion of it from 4channers, I should add), the Badgers take their weird conspiracy theory one step further:
But we at Honey Badger Radio have noticed something… odd. The wave of so-called hate that Anita received from her carefully chosen dragon, wasn’t really all that bad.
Yeah. A year and a half (so far) of pretty much unending harassment and baseless criticism, complete with violent threats directed not only at her but at other women who have defended her — that’s nothing.
Compared to 4-chan’s usual scorched earth strategy–raizing [sic] everything to the ground and pissing on the ashes, Anita got a little singed, like she sat too close to a campfire.
So we have to ask… Did 4-chan white knight Anita? I mean, come on. Was that the best 4 chan could do?
Yes, that’s right. The Honey Badgers are accusing those who sent rape and death threats to Anita Sarkeesian … of “white knighting” her.
I can’t even.
Alice, I am lucky in that, since I am very fair, my eyebrows are so light as to be nearly unnoticeable. The last time my sister was visiting, she had her eyebrows waxed and to be honest I thought they looked exactly the same afterwards. But I know plenty of women with darker eyebrows who get them done regularly and swear by it.
Fun fact: My best friend’s cousin was once named the top person for eyebrows in NYC. I’m always a little self-conscious about my unplucked/untended brows when he visits.
bailey – Because Anita is a woman. And she has an opinion. And she’s on the Internet.
Everyone knows that women shouldn’t have opinions on the Internet! /sarcasm
she doesn’t interest me. i posted that video because it was relevant. people in the comments here where talking about her being a lifelong gamer. but she ain’t. she made it all up for marketing.
Yeah, “fairness” my ass. Pull the other one – it’s got bells on it.
Yes, we get it. She is smarter and savvier than you, and you hate it. We got your point. Bye, now.
Beware of overplucking your brows. My mother in law did that for a long time and now she has to draw hers in because there’s hardly any eyebrow left.
cloudiah – I honestly don’t think anyone’s ever noticed my unshaped brows (or my unshaved legs/pits, but I can get away with it). I wish I understood the point of shaping brows.
yes fairness. why should she get treated more leniently than a boy would in that situation?
Except you didn’t prove shit and nobody here even cares.
CassandraSays – That’s like my biggest fear. Overplucking the brows.
I don’t want to not have eyebrows. Then I’ll look like the Mona Lisa, except Asian.
wrongasshit, you didn’t prove anything. All you did was poison the well, and in either case you have no argument on why she’s wrong (and you can’t, since you’ve never even SEEN the videos).
-10/10 for violating rule 0. Go to sleep.
Y’know I have little to contribute here. I watched Sarkeesian’s report when it came out, and found it rather… uncontroversial. Did these guys get het up because she got a little funding for her research?
Of course I am so old that the last video game I played was “Pacman.” I’ve thought about trying some of games that allow you to adopt an alter personality; I’m afraid I might get addicted. Any recommendations?
When she doesn’t draw in her brows MIL looks permanently startled. Scared the crap out of me the first time I blearily wandered into her room early in the morning and she didn’t have any makeup on yet.
and the pm i sent you was about the petition which was a scam.do you think it was okay for them to lie like that on the petition? 🙁 they also collected a lot of money in donations because of that petition which was full of lies. i’m sure a big percentage of the people who sent them money would not have done so if the had the true information 🙁
all i did in that pm was leave a link to the femitheistdivine video about the petition. i thought it was a superb video she made and i wanted to help get the word out about it
The same fucking reason why 18 year old boys don’t always go to prison for having younger girlfriends.
Have you ever heard of Romeo and Juliet laws, you smashed bag of assholes?
Hunt’s girlfriend was over the age of 14 and Hunt was less than 4 years older than she was. Granted, R&J laws vary state by state but that’s a pretty basic summary.
People send each other PMs on YouTube? Given how dumb the average commenter there seems to be I’m glad I was not aware of this until now.
Whoa, that’s a lot of advice. Keeping it all in mind. Thanks auggz ^_^
Maybe Scooby is free associating.
La Strega, I was so addicted to Oblivion that I’m still scared to try Skyrim. If those are the kinds of games you mean then beware!
Wrong-ass shit, don’t creepily PM people. And then write about it here. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
@CassandraSays,
I’ve used Redken Anti-Snap, but it never seemed to work really well. Now I use L’Oreal Advanced Haircare Triple Resist with the spray, in part because it is the cheapest decent shampoo + conditioner I’ve found, and it is working pretty well, but my hair is the shortest it has been for several years now, so we’ll see.
Do you have any recommendations?
The leave-in conditioner I use is Ouidad, so specifically for curly hair, so probably won’t work for you. Anyone with straight hair want to chime in?
I wonder if something like Argan Oil would work. Since my hair leans more dry I’m not sure what would happen if you used that on oilier hair.
she wasn’t over the age of 14. she was 14 and didn’t turn 15 until after kaitlyn was arrested. see you believed the lies from the hunt family yourself. kaitlyn hunt hooked up with that other girl 4 months after her 18th birthday and was arrested a few months after that. the other girl was 14 the whole time
@auggziliary
Hunt has nothing to do with Anita. I brought it up. Sorry. I recognized a troll I, and some of my friends, have dealt with and related one of his screeching points. I’m just amazed that they bleed over to this blog and I pounce.