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.
@ hellkell
Did I ever tell you about the best band-related swag ever? Lipgloss and eyeshadow from Shiseido, courtesy of a cross-promotion they did with the band. When they went to hand me something I was expecting a CD or a tshirt, the pretty sparkly makeup in cute containers was a very nice surprise.
I wish I could contribute to the make-up lay conversation, but I am continually baffled by anything more complex than some funky nail polish and lipstick.
But … I an undateable as both a girl AND a boy. The boyfriend will be brokenhearted when I tell him.
Also, dude in the video: what is with the aviator shades and fakey looking facial hair? Is he in the witness protection program?
CassandraSays – Apparently my skin’s good enough to not really need foundation. :/
I’ll have to look into it. I’ve had dark circles under my eyes since as long as I can remember, and I don’t want to look like I’ve been doing all nighters for a few years.
I use just concealer and no foundation, but I also use Makeup Forever Powder, so it all evens out. I curse the day Benefit discontinued their Get Even powder.
Anyone have any good matte powder recs? I like the MFE, but I don’t love it.
ah I was right, according to the stupid video wrongasshit posted it was 2010 the video she claimed she didn’t play games. So 3 years is not enough time to form an opinion on gaming. You must prove you’ve played for…uhhh… 10 years. Yeah. Show your proof Anita!! Let me inspect your game controllers and how worn they are.
also in her photos there were no gaming systems or games!!! FAKE GAMER!!!
because everyone puts their systems and games on display. Because it’s totally not possible the systems were in a cabinet or the games in a container.
These people are beyond hopeless. They legitimately think these things are adequate proof that she is wrong.
Also just to confirm, is this dude not claiming she said something she didn’t? at 5:40 Anita mentions that nasty game where you beat her up, then after the dude reads the intro to the game, tat 7:22 he says she implies that people might think she should get beat up….um where did she says that exactly??? then the strawman about violent games causing violence in real life.
“she did lie though, that is undeniable.
I don’t think it’s undeniable, but let’s just grant the point for the sake of argument.
Now, so fucking what?
Cassandra: that’s the best swag ever.
People like you do. The people who don’t even think she has a right to talk about these things. All the people who attacked her online do. If all that was planned, good for her. She’s brilliant. That’s hilarious to me if that’s what she did. All those hateful assholes having their hate used to benefit the person they’re after? Fucking hysterical.
But, of course, there is no evidence that she lied in the first place. You can’t prove she’s a not gamer. She said she doesn’t like first person shooters, who gives a fuck?
bailey – But don’t you know? First person shooters are the only legit video games ever! *rolls eyes*
I’m kind of meh about powder. I used the Bare Minerals for a while, but my skin tends to be dry so as soon as I discovered BB cream I was all, wait, this works as moisturizer too? Score.
I get shiny, so powder’s kind of a must.
Alice, they clearly are the most alpha of games!
she lied when she said she was playing games since she was a kid. if she only started playing em 3 years ago she lied 🙁
wrong: no one but you cares.
TRUTH.
On makeup: L’Oreal have various CC creams, and I think one is meant for shadows under the eyes. I haven’t tried it, but I use their green one, which isn’t bad. It’s a bit thin, but works quite well (and hasn’t made my roseacea break out, yay!)
Prove she lied.
And again, so?
Booo-hooo 🙁
I feel like Scooby’s legacy is being gravely insulted here.
He uses that Scooby icon on YouTube as well. Poor Scooby.
I quite like Revlon’s cream to powder, though it needs to be put on with a very light hand if your pores are at all coarse. I’ve never tried loose powder, I always think it’ll come off on everything.
That is an advanced color theory trick, and full makeup over that is an absolute must. The chance of a makeup beginner sliding into bad drag makeup doing that is very high.
Whoops, should have used a non-specific pronoun for shitty >.<
Hey wrong,
As a courtesy to you, I conceded the claim that she lied about being a lifelong gamer. This means your responses now have to be based on something other than the claim that she lied about being a lifelong gamer.
For instance, you could discuss her ideas on their merits.
Sarkeesian has photos of herself playing a super nintendo when she was kid, she has shown them before. What she said was that she wasn’t an avid video game player, not that she didn’t play video games.
Wrongasshit500 seems to be spouting mostly wrong-ass shit, but as others have said even if it were true that she’d never played video games ever I still don’t see what’s wrong with her making videos critiquing the portrayal of women in videos.
I can’t use powder either, most of the time. Dries me out too.
I don’t wear makeup except for special occasions, and even then… lipgloss, mostly.
But I can talk about hair! I have really long, straight, greasy hair, so I spend a lot of time keeping in tangled. When it gets to mid-back length the only way to do that is to keep it braided all the time… even in bed… which puts a maximum limit on how long I’ll let it get.
When I was in Hawaii, my mom bought me a comb to use in the shower (swimming in the ocean turns my hair into a giant mat–I needed it) and it broke after about four days. It had cost about $8. Mom was pissed, and we took it back to the store and used the money toward a bottle of Bailey’s.
I bought a comb for the shower for $1 at the discount store and it has lasted me for about 4 months of daily use now, though it doesn’t get used as harshly.