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.
i didn’t lie. why are yall okay with anita sarkeesian and the hunt family lying? they both made money off it!
Not quite eye makeup but related – apparently it’s made out of paper.
http://missparnparn.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/picture1.png?w=911&h=616
Probably uncomfortable, but pretty!
Yes, depression survivor over here too. I love being told I wasn’t actually suffering depression because somehow being a woman doesn’t make me human enough to sympathize with. Oh, and I don’t own a firearm, which means I wasn’t serioulsy depressed…I was faking it.
stop lying wrong-ass shit and poot! stop lying.
wordsp1nner – That makes sense to me, that we’re moving on to using better antiseptics.
bailey – It’s just… it’s offensive, but at this point I can’t feel offended. Just sad that there’s people in the world with absolutely no fucking empathy.
Dude, we can see your lies right there! Stop lying!
shitty you are lying. see alices post.
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web of lies web of lies
Repost:
wrongasshit – You’re lying.
“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.”
http://manboobz.com/2013/11/14/a-voice-for-mens-honey-badgers-ask-why-hasnt-anita-sarkeesian-been-harassed-more/comment-page-6/#comment-377291
“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.”
http://manboobz.com/2013/11/14/a-voice-for-mens-honey-badgers-ask-why-hasnt-anita-sarkeesian-been-harassed-more/comment-page-6/#comment-377311
“well it would depend on the attempt. would somebody who jumped off a high bridge and survived be a suicide attempt in the same standing as somebody who swallowed a handful of pills and then phoned an ambulance for themselves ?”
http://manboobz.com/2013/11/14/a-voice-for-mens-honey-badgers-ask-why-hasnt-anita-sarkeesian-been-harassed-more/comment-page-6/#comment-377340
bostonian- i did provide proof. the video i posted. the proof is in the pudding.
there is no pudding 🙁 that is a lie.
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🙁 lying is still wrong!
Compassionless twit.
i don’t believe women attempt suicide more than men. 80percent of suicides being men is proof enough
Shriz – I don’t own a firearm either, and don’t plan to due to possible suicide risk.
But obviously, we’re just faking it, right? If we weren’t, we’d be dead!
That video was just a bunch of lies.
No pudding, no proof, just lies.
Fucking liar.
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what were the lies in the video?
wrongasshit – That was not evidence, that was some MRA misrepresenting and stretching what Anita said about not liking first person shooters. You did not prove anything.
Furthermore, you’re both shifting goalposts and lying. You refuse to look at sources (and I did give you one, but obviously sources are too inconvenient for you unless it confirms your bias). We know that you’re lying.
Assertion don’t make something true. Evidence supports it. I have it. Where is yours?
The reason the MRM is so pissed off at Anita Sarkeesian and Rebecca Watson is because they tried to eliminate them, terrorize them off the web and get them to go away and stop being offensively female in their spaces and it didn’t actually work.
Anita Sarkeesian especially infuriates them because when they first tried to destroy her, it lead a lot of people to discover her project and lend her support instead of joining the hate crusade and still today, she is delivering on her promises and producing the show she wanted to.
These sorts of things to a petty authoritarian are unthinkable.
They have self-image as world-shakers and career-enders, so when the world refuses to respond to their tantrums in the way they want them to, it just makes them more angry and more committed to trying to make the world listen to them because the alternative is to admit that they are just a scared little man with no real power, but no real problems who is so bored and meaningless that they need to invent little boogeymen and enemies just to get up in the morning.
It’d be pathetic if they weren’t whiny bigots looking for an excuse to perpetrate violence and terrorism, either virtual or real-world against women just trying to live their lives.
Lies! Lying lies! The compassion, the pudding, all of it lies!
Why y’all okay with lying so much, Scooby Don’t?
He has no evidence! Just a video by a douche who lies
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Which figures because Scooby Don’t is still a liar.
You know, I was going to be all “this makeup conversation is perfect! Someone summarize it for ‘Oppressing Men with Beauty Products'”
Or say that — “New WordPress idea: the ability to change trolls’ avatars.” — is probably not possible (ok, I could maybe do it manually with JS, but if anyone is enough of a douche to have me manually changing there avatar, someone hit the banhammer or devowel them or something)
But then I got to — “if women really attempted suicides than men would not be 80percent of suicides. those are fake suicide attempts that women make.” And, well, Falconer, for the third time today, can you please retrieve my eyeballs? Though I think they may’ve reached exit velocity that time.
“caput in calcem” XD Love it.
Seeing how I’m pages behind (I’ve been failing to make the Borg a favicon [the little thing in the address bar and the icon in your favorites menus and such {hence Fav. Icon = favicon}])
…seeing how I’m pages behind and apparently drunker than I thought, I’m going to post this and then catch up.
he said the video was proof it wasn’t proof it was lying why is he ok with lying
@Alice, I feel ya. It’s terrible.
@Cerebus, you pretty much nailed it
@Shitty 🙁 lies
I don’t think shitty-ass really gets the whole concept of “proof”, even though he tosses the word around a lot.
where are my attention cookies why is everyone laughing at me, if you don’t engage with me my life has no meaning.
(That sounded a bit too literate, huh? Must work on authenticity of troll-voice.)
that man was not an MRA.your source was about different suicide methods by sex, i looked at it.