Christina Hoff Sommers is an old school faux-feminist who’s devoted the last several decades to trashing feminism. Lately she’s apparently decided to appeal to a younger audience — or at least a more immature one — by pandering to the #GamerGate crowd.
That’s probably worth a post or two in itself, but in the meantime you might enjoy this excellent song that deftly rebuts the, er, arguments in her recent video about sexism in video games and why she thinks that’s somehow not a real issue because, you know, dudes like to look at boobies when they play games. No, that’s really her argument — though I’m not sure it even qualifies as an argument, technically speaking.
Anyway, enjoy!
And here’s her original video, if you’re feeling masochistic and would actually enjoy sitting through six and a half very long minutes of simple-minded, patronizing, disingenuous, evidence-free pseudoarguments delivered by someone desperately pandering to terrible, terrible people.
(And before any #gamergaters cry, ah ha, objectification of men, uh, you need to play the game. These are comedy dongs, not sexy at all. Well, scratch that, there are probably some people really in to it.)
She’s basically a female Warren Farrell.
Dudetrocities: If your best hope for legitimacy is the pseudo-intellectualism and blatant pandering of two disgraced academics, you might just be on the wrong side.
@LBT: I definitely agree with you there and have often thought the same thing myself.
I mean, look at the hubbub over Assassin’s Creed: Unity, and the excuse that it would be more expensive to “animate” a female character than a male character (i.e. jiggly boob physics). Was this an issue before? Did the first Lara Croft wobble around like a chesty chump?
Seriously, game companies, it’s not the end of the world if your lady bodies don’t bounce around the place with every step – NO ONE who matters is going to care. If the biggest thing that you’re worried about with designing female characters is getting the “look” right and not the writing or the character development, you really need to work on your priorities.
At last, The Peen! These dongs are doing windmills!
Instead, you should watch this video. It demonstrates the no win situation women love to perpetrate upon men. Women love to put men in these roles. Keeps the man slave mentally conditioned to grovel.
How does a man win in these scenarios? He simply walks away. By doing so, he saves his sanity and avoids early greying and death.
What’s she’s suggesting is that he rape her. It will be fun for him until she gets mad again – at which point the punishment for the false rape claim will be imprisonment rather than the emasculating verbal beat down he got for controlling his behavior.
By the way – your site sucks.
A couple of weeks “researching” games and gamers?
Taking your sister’s kid to GameStop doesn’t qualify as research, lady.
Yes, Northern Exposure took a dark turn in the last season, when Maggie spermjacked Joel, then falsely accused him of rape. The show’s producers later revealed that the series was a documentary, not a sitcom as many viewers had assumed.
Northern Exposure is second only to Sex and the City for its grim realism and searing inquiry into the depths of female depravity.
And most of us having been gamers for more than 20 years..irrelevant, yes ?
@marinerachel Hey, if dongs are your things there are some, uh, interesting Skyrim mods out there… http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/498-sos-schlongs-of-skyrim/
(warning: link is full of dongs and nsfw)
@Viro Dianc Your point might be a (very) little bit more convincing if you tried finding some examples involving women who are not, you know, fictional? Just a thought.
(Apologies if this goes through twice. My feeble ladybrain finds it terribly hard to operate these interweb computer machines.)
He says “Okay, that’s a wrap.”
@Viro Dianc …That women love to put men in… okay um no. Let me tell you what it’s like from our side of the fence to have a strange man not take no for an answer in a world where we will likely be blamed for our own sexual assault: Fucking. Terrifying.
Also, your trolling sucks.
Because the scenario is, you know, staged.
@Johanna Roberts
My trolling is most robust. How dare you denigrate my trolling abilities. I’ve had strange women not take no for an answer – but I didn’t send them to prison as a result. My cucumber grew large and overtook my other brain’s ability to think rationally. On more than one occasion, I was intoxicated. That, my dear, is rape. Given these circumstances, I’ve been raped on multiple occasions.
Viro,
What does your post have to do with the topic being discussed?
Why don’t you go your own way and leave us alone? I promise we’ll leave you alone. We won’t even miss you.
And BTW, an erection does not overtake your ability to think rationally. I know people joke about that it does but it isn’t actually true.
@weirwoodtreehugger
“Why don’t you go your own way and leave us alone? I promise we’ll leave you alone. We won’t even miss you.”
You’re going to lose a lot of insight if I leave you people. It’s just sad that way.
Let’s have a vote. All those in favor of Viro’s departure?
:: raises hand ::
Wait….is this an I-was-too-drunk-to-consent argument or an I-was-too-horny-to-consent argument?
The former dismantles rape culture whereas the latter perpetuates it. Not being able to tell the difference between the two also contributes to rape culture.
This dog is also voting for Viro’s departure:
This penguin also votes Yay on Viro’s swift exit:
http://media.offexploring.co.uk/photos/alittletrip/photos/IMG_0169.jpg
Only one hand raised (and one dog’s paw)? Pretty weak.
You people need me. I’m the controversy in your enclave. I’m going to invite all of my friends here if you accept me. You’ll hate them as well – but OH THE DIALOG!
Jonathan Mann is awesome. He does a song a day on YouTube. He’s also done a song riffing on that feminazi stole my ice cream vid from a while ago. http://youtu.be/xxXfqkl21FM
Help me out here, isn’t this the same argument that the Joker made to Batman at one point?
Does that make David Batman?
You’re the turd in our punchbowl. And we already had one of those today.
HOW DO THESE TURDS KEEP GETTING IN HERE?