There’s some great news for supporters of The Sarkeesian Effect, the seemingly random collection of badly filmed interviews with assorted people who dislike Anita Sarkeesian that is allegedly being edited into a film of some kind!
In a new video, Jordan Owen — the hairier of the two Sarkeesian Effect impresarios — has announced an amazing new opt-out opportunity for the alleged film’s backers to donate money to him and his pal (then enemy, then pal again) Davis Aurini.
Owen reports that, even though they’re supposedly already done filming their alleged film, the two have somehow managed to work out a way to do some more filming “that we didn’t think that we’d be able to do but it’s really going to tie the movie together,” much like the non-big Lebowski’s famously peed-on rug, I guess.
Now, Owen won’t provide any details — which, he suggests, might have something vaguely to do with the Honey Badgers’ recent escapade in Calgary? — but apparently it is a quite exciting filming opportunity and it somehow requires another month’s worth of funding for the alleged film, and unless the project’s backers specifically opt out by the end of the month they’re going to get charged for it!
It’s all very ethical.
In the video, Owen also invites supporters to check out the amazingly professional web site they have up for their amazing film at TheSarkeesianEffect.com. I would also highly recommend that you check it out; it is in every way up to the exacting standards the two are known for.
And before I forget, I’d like to mention some great news for fans of the unintentional comedy that the Sarkeesian Effect duo provide almost every time they open their mouths.
A couple of Sarkeesian Effect mockers — Andrew Todd from badassdigest.com and @kav_p from Twitter — have come into the possession of puppets that, as Kav P puts it, look “startlingly similar” to the Sarkeesian Effect duo. They plan to produce a series of short videos starring said puppets.
Here’s the theme song for the series, which they call MRAsterpiece Theater. You may notice that despite costing nothing to anyone but the two people who made it, this video somehow manages to look and sound a lot more professional than anything the actual Sarkeesian Effect dudes have produced so far.
>Hold a viewing party when this poop-bomb fails to entice any local theaters and goes straight to youtube.
Better or worse than Battlefield Earth? A film I actually went to see, and which none of us ever wanted to speak of again.
@kirbywarp,
I would sign up for the viewing party, but I have this heart-sinky feeling that May 1st will roll round, I’ll be settled down with the popcorn, the skull and the scented fucking candles, and I’ll be treated to … another request for funding to squeeze in just another month’s worth of filming. Just one more, I mean, this is ground-breaking stuff you guize, we need to get the whole truth out there. And then after that month, when I’ve rescheduled my diary, cancelled work and sold tickets to any respective gigs, films or festivals I might have bought for that day, I’ll see another notification to fund them for just one more month…
And nine months later I’ll be a gibbering mess, filming myself wearing a box on my head and talking to the skull in an attempt to channel Aurini.
I don’t know if I can go down that path.
How dare the feminists want to make a movie about a group of cis-gendered white men and a single cis-gendered white female and then show it on the same day as our awesome, insightful, magnum opus?!
I think it was just the act of wanting to analyze representation of women in video games, and daring to ask for money to do so. (Though, even if she didn’t ask for money, she’d still be a demon in women’s clothing to dudebros everywhere for daring to make her series.)
Not only is Anita questioning their status quo, she’s becoming more and more influential while she does it, her ideas are gaining more traction and sparking discussion over representation in games, and we can’t have that, apparently!
Not only did she get more money for her series, they’re better made, make more sense, and actually have something to talk about beyond “EVIL FEMINAZIS” and who to place the blame on for all the evils in the world.
I mean, shit, she’s one of Time’s 100 most influential people, something Professor Skull and Tub Boy could only dream of.
You are doing the work of some righteous divine, PoM.
The full description in the “About” section:
In 2012, a YouTube blogger named Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of videos discussing women’s roles and representations in video games.
The controversial project and the ensuing media storm would sharply divide the gaming community and usher in a new era of political correctness in the world of digital entertainment.
Gaming journalists began pumping out a new message: games were no longer about personal enjoyment or artistic expression. Now, games would be about social engineering.
A woman posted a video on YouTube saying Lara Croft’s tits look silly. She was immediately crowned God-Empress of Video Games, put in charge of not only the multi-billion-dollar gaming industry but all media reporting on it, and granted the power to replace video games with feminist propaganda bent on brainwashing people into thinking Lara Croft’s tits look silly.
Because of the awesome power of that YouTube video, we now live in a totalitarian state where Kuribo’s shoe stamps on a human face forever.
…Ah, so this is why these guys usually express themselves via rambling hour-long YouTube rants. When they write down what they think in clear, concise language, it looks just a wee bit ridiculous.
In 2014, gamers the world over rebelled against the new regime and launched #GamerGate, a movement to fight back against corrupt gaming journalists and the culture of fear and cronyism that enabled them.
The Sarkeesian Effect is an unprecedented look into the most remarkable and controversial cultural shift in the history of video games.
There’s two sides to every story.
This is the one you haven’t heard.
Those poor silenced Gamergaters. I’ve often wondered what they think about women in video games, but until now there’s never been a way to find out. Finally!
I just hope that the Film Industry doesn’t get its wires crossed, and I go to the new Avengers movie and it turns out to be Hulk sitting in a bathtub complaining, and then Black Widow being interviewed by Tony Stark about how crummy it is that Sue Storm made some Youtube videos.
I … would actually love to see that one.
@Flying Mouse: Indeed! We have a long tradition of turning them into manginas and making them do stuff for us. for example we forced Johann Strauss to compose this waltz to please our feeeeeemaaaaaale ears:
If I may join your viewing party I will gladly provide bonbons made by the dude at 3:25 in the video. 🙂
Wiener bonbons? DOUBLE MISANDRY.
Bathtub Hulk would smash trope lady, but Bathtub Hulk too sad.
I tip my hat to Austrian women. That is an impressive exercise of female power. That a musical genius with such impressive facial hair could be so shamelessly manipulated by women – especially at a time when their man-bewitching rear ends were hidden under piles of crinolines – is truly breathtaking.
You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry. I post hour-long videos of myself in a bathtub.
Bathtub Hulk has a new Lush bath bomb that Bathtub Hulk would like to enjoy. Lush bomb smells like bonbons.
Good luck getting this into independent theaters without getting vetted by the film festival circuit, or having any kind of positive message, compelling story, special effects, or acting that’s likely to generate buzz. The average arthouse audience generally doesn’t want to sit through 90 minutes of one-sided hate ranting. Unless it’s the kind of low-information audience that flocked to “2016: Obama’s America” and “Last Ounce of Courage”, but even there, you need some kind of compelling right-wing Christian hook, which “evil commies want to take away our jiggle physics!!” is not.
I predict they’ll fail to get any theaters interested, and then it will get billed on YouTube as “THE MOVIE HOLLYWOOD FEMINAZIS DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE!”
@friday jones
I’m in the library trying to be quiet. Your post made me emit some strange noises that come from stifling laughter and having it escape from your nose.
Perhaps if Anita offered Bathtub Hulk some Hostess Fruit Pies™, everything could be resolved amicably?
I was dealing with pro MRA Gators the other night. They still think they hold the truest truth and that they will win some kind of war. It was sad, ridiculous, desperate and a bit infuriating. And apparently pointing fallacies is making you an agent of Hamas or something like that (the rant derailed on Muslims raping children in Europe in less than two messages, I’m not even kidding.) I guess that this event gave me an idea about what the sarkeesian effect is going to be: two dudes raving about unrelated things in order to prove another unrelated one then masturbating and self congratulating each other on showing the truest truth.
Oh the anticipation! /sarcasm
Not even the stereotyped mystical powers of The Mandarin can resist the real fruit flavors of Hostess Fruit Pies! Flavor… Satisfying… Feminism…. Fading….
Thank you friday jones and other for making me laugh. Bathtub Hulk. Wonderful.
Are you remembering that reference right? Surely you mean Justice Fruit Pies!
I love that I was exposed to the parody without ever realizing that the real thing existed.
Can’t wait for the second crowdfunding campaign dedicated to getting this thing in theaters!
I actually am surprised they “finished” it, though. Congratulations, boys. You’ve exceeded my very low expectations already.
Ugh, their website’s design hurts me.
If you’re reading this, fellas, here are a few tips: Slapping a generic photoshop filter on a photo is always a no-no. If you are going to use a photo for a background image it should be something like a landscape. It should be consistent in what it’s displaying (meaning it should have roughly similar colours and brightness throughout. Monochromatic looks classy) or you could have a large image at the top of the screen that fades down and push the content down a bit to look nice. The content should be contained in one or more divs that are a solid colour, usually black or white, and fairly opaque so that just a hint of the background image is visible. Your website should only scroll in one direction, not both, which looks sloppy.
Your title font should be legible. Considering your entire treatment of the title is just a colour and a stroke, I would recommend replacing it with a clean, sans-serif font with no stroke (thick strokes are almost always ugly on text). It’s my opinion that if you’re going to use a highly stylized font, it should be for a fancy typography-style title. Middle of the road typography looks bad.
Ugh, dudes, just build the damn thing in WordPress. You can get ready-made wordpress themes for free and then just add your images to them and you won’t have these problems. Christ. And don’t launch the website until the layout is finished. This isn’t 1998.
Okay, seriously, Sad Bathtub Hulk Being Cheered Up by Fruit Pies is the mental image that has now seared itself into my brain, and will the last thing I contemplate before the light dims for the last time.
Are there any skulls on the site?
Battlefield Earth had a plot and characters. I guess the skull might count as a character, here, but that’s about it.
@magnesium: Your critiques fall on the ears of people who have their page title set to “Home”. Oh, and they use an MS Paint derived anarchy symbol for their logo.