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.
Incidentally, does anyone know any super-duty hand cream? I get really dry hands, between the dry weather (my cats were shocking me a few days ago) and the constant handwashing, the gloves, and the 70% ethanol (why, yes, I do do cell culture work. How did you know) my hands are basically destroyed.
wrongasshit – Wait. so saying that you have no case and asking why do you even care so much about Anita when you stated that you’ve never seen her videos and don’t care about video games is bullying?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Let me know when you get your first rape threat!
i don’t care about video games or her videos about video games. but i don’t like the fact the she lied.
New WordPress idea: the ability to change trolls’ avatars.
@ wordspinner
This stuff is great – the olive one is the best for really dry skin.
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Or, if you’re willing to spend a bit more.
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wordsp1nner, Do you have a humidifier? Helps so much with the shocking… I don’t usually like Neutrogena, but they make a lotion with sesame oil that I love for winter dry skin.
kittehserf:
the whole the men “get custody if they just apply” is bull: http://www.breakingthescience.org/SJC_GBC_analysis_intro.php#mbr_analysis
male suicide: men kill themselves 3 to 4 times the rate of women
the thing is, even though I don’t agree with the presentation from AvFM, the style, whatever: I still agree with idea of having compassion for men and MALE issues.
wordsp1nner – have you tried plain coconut oil? I <3 the stuff! Slather it on after you get out of the shower or bath! If you have plain cotton gloves, slather it on your hands, put the gloves on, go to bed, and rinse in the morning.
wordsp1nner – What kind of cell culture work do you do? I’m debating getting an MD and going into biotechnology, so I’m curious.
no alice its more than that. yall calling me names and making fun of me
So, you just hate women in general, like most MRAs.
Not surprised.
She lied? Where? How? But you don’t really care? What bullshit. How did she lie?
Wahhhhh :'(
Imagine how Anita Sarkeesian feels.
Yeah, Wrong, imagine if we were tracking down your personal information and sending you death threats. Wouldn’t that be mean?
Zoot – and women attempt suicide at a higher rate and are more likely to have depression. Your point?
Imagine we made a game where people beat the shit out of you, imgaine petitions getting passed around demanding people give you negative press, imagine people saying that you wanted all the horrible things people said to you to happen, imagine if people said you were a liar and had no right to make videos about something that interests you, etc, etc…
if women really attempted suicides than men would not be 80percent of suicides. those are fake suicide attempts that women make.
wrongasshit – Oh dear. You must have missed the tagline for this blog: “misogyny. I mock it” (emphasis mine).
Also, the worst thing we called you was a troll and “Scooby Dooby Don’t”. That’s equivalent to rape threats for having an opinion! Or having a troll take a photo of you and manipulating it so that you look like you were sucking cock and having that spammed!
People telling wrong to go to bed, WORST, MOST MEAN THING EVER!!!
Death and rape threats for Anita, perfectly fine, if she played Super Mario brothers as a kid and does not play first person shooter games.
Fucking dipshit.
Of all of us here, only Wrong-ass shit has sent unsolicited PMs to anyone and we’re the bullies?
Zoot, go away, you’re tiresome. Having compassion for human beings of whatever gender is hardly controversial. Why, we have compassion for non-misogynists who are male all the time! We actually do more on balance to help men than the entire MRM has ever done!
That’s not*
*iamnotadumbass*
wordsp1nner: For really dry hands, I use Bag Balm. I put a bunch on my hands then put socks over them. It stinks, and feels weird, but it does work. Bath and Body sells these gel gloves that also work. During the day, Gloves in a Bottle. It leaves a protective layer on your skin. I’m a nurse, so I know what havoc frequent handwashing +hand sanitizer + gloves + cold weather can wreak on hands 🙂
wrongasshit – Go step on a Lego. Women don’t attempt suicide for attention.
Oh boy…care to explain how all the failed suicide attempts were “fake”? Jesus.
baileyrenee i agree. i do not support anita being bullied. never said i did. just correcting some of the false info she has spread about which people here were repeating. lies. she lied about being a life long gamer