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.
Sometimes you happen upon someone so totally devoid of understanding and comprehension that you just have to shake your head and wonder how they remember to breathe.
Dumbfuck, you would do well to actually read up on what you’re talking about before making such a head-up-the-arse statement.
One troll is claiming no one feels compassion for men/boys; the other is demonstrating no compassion to people who attempt suicide if they’re women/girls.
Can you guys just admit you think that only men/boys matter?
auggziliary – I suspect lack of empathy and a case of caput in calcem. 😉
You haven’t proven anything Shitty. Go away.
I’m honestly kind of relieved that he’s going on about women’s suicide now, since it really was looking like he was physically incapable of saying anything other than “she lied she lied she lied”.
Hey, let’s matchmake. Scooby seems like he needs a friend. Scooby, meet Zoot. Zoot, meet Scooby. Now go play.
they were fake because they didn’t really want to die. how can they attempt it more if men are 80 percent of completed suicides? it doesn’t add up.
I work in a tox lab, so I grow cells and then dose them with chemicals and see how many die. (You would not believe how complicated that can be–one of the chemicals I worked with, silver ions, interferes with every enzymatic assay I tested, so all the easy-peasy plate-reader assays were all out. It was time to break out the flow cytometer.)
but katz, she lied. lied. very important, she lied.
don’t be mean now.
wrongasshit – Go step on a Lego. Then look up suicide methods used by men and women.
Take note of this fact: men are more likely to use firearms, whereas women are more likely to overdose on drugs.
If you know basic toxicology, you can see why women are more likely to survive suicide attempts.
So, Wrong, let me get this straight: You’re not an MRA, you just happen to be very passionate about two things: The personal life of a feminist and how women don’t really commit suicide?
Speaking as an Albertan woman: I am not responsible for FeMRAs. Anyway, isn’t she from BC or something, and moved to Alberta after her divorce, for which she’s trying to atone?
Also, speaking as someone who spent most of her life living in the tar sands: wash in bottled water? WTH? There’s a lot about the oil mines that is nasty, but northern Alberta isn’t Mordor. Even though I totally fell for the fake announcement that they were filming The Hobbit in the mines.
Wrong-ass shit, no, you’re not getting it. Just admit you hate women/girls, and want more of them to die, and go away.
wordsp1nner – Really? That’s cool!
Is this to find cancer treatments in vitro, or new antibiotics, or what?
Now THERE’S an optimistic assumption.
(Talk of suicide in a graphic way, warning)
Hey, Shitty and Zoot, ever wonder why so many men choose to jump off buildings and shoot themselves when they feel suicidal? Maybe part of it is this whole “if you use pills or slit your wrists you’re just faking it” kind of attitude so many dipshits like you seem to have. I wonder how many men would still be here today if people didn’t say such ridiculous things.
katz – Very, VERY optimistic. But seriously. “Poison is in the dose.” That’s like the most basic rule. I mean, anti-vaxers don’t get it either, but still!
@auggz
Yeah, that’s the main reason. It’s still helpful to hear these tips because I can always use them at the right opportunity. But usually I’m so terrified of my dad finding out that I don’t keep any makeup on for more than 3 hours – when I’m on campus. It fucking sucks. :<
Now ze’s onto women lie with their fake suicide attempts?
Yoinks! The stupid!
“They were fake because they didn’t really want to die”?
Oh man, you really don’t get it, do you? Christ. And Anita is an attention whore, like all women who attempt suicide. Damn, you’ve got a fucking problem.
sparky – And the insensitivity!
I don’t know if I’m shaking because of the dumbassery or because I normally shake.
Alice,
No, though one of the other people in the lab is putting together a proposal for a cancer treatment involving using double-stranded DNA as a treatment (to disable a certain family of transcription factors by mopping them up). My group works on a certain type of industrial product and we’re looking at workplace inhalation hazards. (I don’t want to say more for privacy reasons.)
@Cassandra
QFT
*gives Alice a blanket*
It’s okay, they’ll leave eventually…
i am British. hardly anybody owns guns here. men are still 80percent of suicides. the most popular method is hanging. the reason they pick drugs is that they usually don’t want to die. thats why they so often phone somebody after they take the drugs, they know whoever they call is going to send for an ambulance and rush over there.