GamerGaters sure do love their Based Mom! Christina Hoff Sommers, as you may or may not know, is a libertarian think-tanker who’s been grinding away at feminism for two decades, while still, rather perversely, claiming to be feminist. Though not a video gamer herself, she’s jumped aboard the GamerGate train, and GamerGaters have repaid her interest in their little crusade with interest, anointing her their “Based Mom” and talking about her with weird reverence.
That is, when they’re not making creepy fan art about her. Today, five of the most disturbing examples I’ve found so far.
1) Virgin Based Mom, in which an old publicity shot of Sommers is pasted onto a picture of the Virgin Mary to very creepy effect.
2) Based Waifu, in which Sommers is reinvented as an anime character.
3) Mass Effect Mom, in which Sommers becomes a Space Marine.
4) Whatever the hell this is.
5) Perfect Mom. And last but certainly not least, this tweet. No image manipulation here, just a guy expressing his opinion about a women. His really, really creepy opinion.
https://twitter.com/ItalyGG/status/537271807326572544
BONUS: The world’s most annoying Christina Hoff Sommers animated gif. Sommers finishes her ironically titled “Factual Feminist” YouTube videos, which are neither factual nor feminist, with an annoyingly contrived tagline: “Check your facts, not your privilege.” Now you can watch her smugly repeat this phrase over and over without end. Which is, I think, the very definition of hell.
Warning: Excessive viewing of this gif may give you nightmares; its smugness is that powerful.
H/T — GamerGhazi, for pointing out the Virgin Mom
@M. the Social Justice Ranger
HAH HAH HAH HAH I don’t think Jesus would actually be okay with someone worshiping one or more of the founding documents of the United States. That’s one of the things that really confuses me about the super-“patriot” religious right. Don’t they have Bibles? Can’t they read them? Don’t they see that “worship no graven images” thing and understand that that includes flags?
@M. the Social Justice Ranger
Sometimes I do stop by his page to see what new comedy gold he has to share.
They also don’t comprehend the whole “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” thing.
@PoM
Considering that they put infinitely more stock in a mistranslated line from Leviticus than in any part of the Ten Commandments or the Sermon On The Mount… =P
Is that meant to be Jesus or Moses? I honestly can’t tell.
Perfect Mom image is the creepiest because ugh, put the blur tool down and never touch Photoshop again, whoever edited that. The whole thing is hilariously Oedipal, though.
So if CHS is GG’s mother and Vivian James is their daughter, that makes CHS Me James’s grandma, I guess?
PoM, are you sure that isn’t the pied piper leading the rats out of the city?
Should read Ms James. For some reason my autocorrect doesn’t like ‘Ms’.
Autocorrect doesn’t like the English language, full stop.
That painting needs a few dogs playing poker and shooting pool to raise it up to the level of lowbrow.
Also, lovely of him to put the pregnant woman in “Satan’s corner”. That speaks volumes.
All the women are in Satans corner cuz of that apple story and all.
I wondered if that was the same guy as did the Breitbart photoshop. We beat him up pretty bad over that copyright violation. They were trying to charge thousands for that rip off “art”.
Those paintings remind me of MRA graphics in that if you’re not already ideologically in their corner you won’t get most of the visual references, therefore they’re completely useless at winning over anyone not already on their side.
Good political art doesn’t work like that.
Oh, is Breitbart the bloke in the armour? I wouldn’t know him from a bar of soap.
I just assumed the armored guy was the frontman for one of those ubiquitous vaguely Christian rock bands from the 90s.
Yes it is. He died a while back and his minions did a fundraiser with photoshopped “original art”. It was all terribly embarrassing.
@M. the Social Justice Ranger — there’s a Cthulhu version of that Jesus painting, and I have to say, it is way more fun.
Ah, found the Cthulhu version. HERE!
http://n-s-d-a-p.deviantart.com/art/Merry-Solstice-344021084
I don’t know if this has been said, but i find it interesting/ironic/telling that when they make her into a super hero/comic type image, she’s in full body armor with somewhat normal shaped boobs. Why not put her into hyper sexualized postures, with grotesque breasts and butt, and barely there outfits?
oh, right.. that would be inappropriate.
Because she’s over 25, and most of these guys are enthusiastic supporters of Pedobear?
::nods:: Over the age of consent = not interesting to this lot.
skiriki – the Cthulhu version is not only much more fun, it’s much more intelligible!
I find it telling that they chose to represent her as the Virgin Mary. Not only is it one of the most apparent manifestations of a Madonna/Whore complex that I’ve seen in a long time, but they’re also choosing to depict her as the woman who represents the (impossible) standard to which all other women should be compared and aspire. Apparently, being an anti-feminist and a female misogynist is what all women should aspire to be.
I found that Virgin Mary appropriation seriously offensive, despite not and never having been Catholic, and being well aware of the whole horrible Madonna/Whore thing.
On a trivial level, their inability to even photoshop a head in proportion to the body is pretty offensive, too.