I don’t usually post raw videos from the insufferable assholes I write about on this site because, well, they’re insufferable assholes, and listening to them smugly opine about shit they’re completely ignorant about is generally about as entertaining as, you know, GirlWritesWhat videos. (I know, that’s a bit circular, but I really couldn’t come up with anything more insufferable than that.)
Anyhoo, I’ve broken my rule and posted this video because the two guys who made this video — the would-be filmmaking duo of jordanowen42 and Davis Aurini — are so over-the-top in their insufferable assholism that it’s actually kind of perversely charming.
You see, these two woman-hating YouTube blabbers — the first a belligerent doofus whose apartment is nearly as unkempt as mine, the other a sort of PUA version of Anton LaVey — are pitching what they claim will be an important new documentary exposing the evil “Social Justice Warrior” agenda of evil women and traitor men like Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, and, well, I can’t remember the names of any of the men. It’s called The Sarkeesian Effect. And they want your money to fund it.
Their promised “feature-length documentary” will be a powerful work of investigative journalism that will give a voice to the voiceless — to the “silent majority” of, well, angry white dudes who spend whatever time they don’t spend playing video games posting obnoxious and abusive comments about Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn to YouTube and Reddit and eleven zillion other websites that cater to them.
In other words, this is the loudest “silent majority” I’ve ever run across.
But these are guys who love to pretend that their bold thoughts are being silenced, and PUA Anton LaVey Davis Aurini happily panders to their persecution complex:
Don’t let these people silence us. Your contribution will be a defiant strike against the degeneration and corruption that is going on in this world.
The word “degeneration” helps remind us that Aurini considers himself a part of the neo-Nazi-lite “Dark Enlightenment.”
Anyway, they argue that you should send them lots of money, because PUA Anton LaVey’s suits can’t be cheap you’ll be striking a blow for every dude who’s ever called Anita Sarkeesian a “whore” in a YouTube comment. Well, they don’t literally put it that way, but, you know, come on. That’s what they mean.
And hey, who wouldn’t trust this dude with their hard-earned cash?
I found this video hilarious from start to finish. Stick with it at least until, a little after 6 minutes in, PUA Anton LaVey Aurini lights up his second cigarette, showing what a devil-may-care attitude he has by mumbling his lines with a cigarette in his mouth as he fiddles with his lighter.
Yep, that’s the kind of quality investigative journalism you can expect from these two.
Poyo… <(- . -)>
[Dang, I saw that one. *sigh* Gettin my hopes up and everything.]
@Nurse You’re so funny, but I can assure you that your little Lyudmila could not kick my ass. I’m a trained kunoichi, she’s a sniper. It would not be that hard.
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Very true, Jarred H.
Perhaps zie comes from an alternate universe? That would explain why zir reality seems so different than the one with which I am familiar.
I’m thinking Cheetos and basement mildew. Or is that too trite? Maybe it’s microwaveable burritos and stale cigarette smoke clinging to 1970s shag carpet.
You wouldn’t see the sniper coming, silly. Because sniper…
But, you’re right, dear, cartoons trump real life. Every. Single. Time.
WWTH – I don’t think trite is a consideration in this conversation, anymore. Trite has totes jumped the shark.
I love how you think refuting the “arguments” against Sarkeesian hasn’t been done 39853860 times already.
Weren’t you just complaining about straw men? Like, wasn’t that literally your first comment on this thread?
And when it doesn’t, that itself will be misandry.
Oh lord, do they really think Anita Sarkeesian is a big enough deal to warrant a theatrical release debunking her? They really don’t ever stick their heads out of their echo chambers, do they?
@ WWTH – Tetris flip off!!! LOL!!!!!
Cartoon? What are you talking about? You people are so strange.
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…Connection to reality is not strong with this one.
…Maybe that’s part of the issue-we have a lot of people who’ve mentally inhabited their games for so long that any criticism of said games reads as an attack on their self-concept.
…O.o…Wow, there but for the grace of dog go I…I’m glad I got disciplined about not letting myself game all freaking day.
Hey, at least I got you to Google Lyudmila Pavlichenko…
Boring. Post sarcastic message, post image of video game character.
Try changing it up a bit; maybe if you can be just a tad more interesting, you can avoid the mod-hammer a little longer.
The sniper doesn’t so much come, as they sit somewhere, as still and invisibly as possible, awake for several days.
Waiting.
Not in video games, though, because that would not be entertaining at all.
MOD NOTE: Shiranui, stop posting gifs. Use your words, like grown-ups do.
Very good factual point, blahlistic. But just saying “you wouldn’t see the sniper” didn’t seem quite ominous enough.
Clearly, I am taking this far too seriously.
Sorry, all caught up now. I get why Shiranui is so mad about people like Anita Sarkeesian: he’s afraid they’re going to take away his big-titted, barely-dressed, tough-but-pretty vidya game characters.
As for their Patreon page, did you see that both of these guys are “published” authors? One is real mad about anti-porn feminists, and the other wants you to know that Traditional White Men will save us from the apocalypse. LOL forever.
Waiting? For days?
Please tell me that snipers still take breaks for breakfast! Second breakfast? Elevensies? Tea?
That’s… Horrifying!
You know, I really hope that this is just “Ha, ha, I’ll pick a perfect example of misogyny and over-sexualization of women in video games and troll people by pretending to be her! That will make them angry! Muahaha!” kind of troll.
Because if he’s really convinced that this character isn’t a “perfect” example of what the tropes against women in video games are about?
Well, that’s just sad.
Meh, I think that “trained kunoichi” is going to be taken out by a
banhammer soon.Sadly, this is not M Shiranui’s first visit to WHTM (though it is the first time as this character).
Gosh, you people are so mean. Do you treat all pretty ladies like this? Anyway, I’m going now. For real this time. You guys have fun, I’ll be going off doing more exciting things than argue with you all. Goodbye!
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Boring troll is booooooooring, Sheer Ennui.
In their defense, I don’t like the anti-porn feminists either.
Coffee, I suspect your reasons and his are slightly different.
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:: huge happy face!!!! ::
Yay for mods!
Yay for mods, indeed!
@Contrapangloss – Silly Bilbo! That’s why Hobbits don’t get to be snipers! Now, now! Don’t you fret your sweet little head about it, you have big, strong Men to protect you! Just go and warm your sweet, little, err… I mean big feet by the stove and whip us up some pies! It’s not mishobbitry, it’s evopsych. After all, Hobbits are small and soft and weak, and have never, ever, in the history of Middle Earth done anything of note.