Ok, I lied about the bootleg copy. And yes, I just recycled a joke I made on Twitter.
But The Sarkeesian Effect really is out! (Just my luck, it came out while I was napping. I have a very odd schedule, ok?)
You can go pay $3.99 to watch it on Vimeo, or you can wait for my review. It may take a while, because the “film” is 2 1/2 hours long, and I type slowly.
@katz
… You’re not kidding. Going back through that moron’s article archive, they are literally an MRA, from the racist dog-whistles to the fear-vomit about why false rape allegations are worse than rape to the use of “Females.” They’ve hit every stereotypical single note bar “Heil Hitler” in just two pages.
*No hyphen in “Dog whistles.” I don’t even know why I put that there.
Where are the Mystery Science Theater 3000 robots when you need them?
… *Every single stereotypical note. Wow, that post was a mess. I’m going to blame reading that idiot’s racist, sexist diarrhoea.
@ katz
If it helps, that article headline didn’t mean that women shouldn’t get one. It’s more about how useless most people’s degrees are, and that we shouldn’t use the fact that a dude has a college degree as a be-all, end-all marker for mate suitability. She made some good points in that article, though not all and not all well, though I’ve not checked out the rest of her work.
@katz
Aaaand, never mind. She’s a moron, and rather unaware of actual problems with things like racism and sexism. Perhaps she is an MRA, because she isn’t (as she mentioned in an article) a true feminist.
Just, why? why? why? why? I imagine if this movie was the pinnacle of your life’s achievement.
Um… Yes, Jordan. They ARE in fact, unrelated and it IS a coincidence. Man, how narcissist can you get?
Also, that’s pretty damn low to charge your audience for the privilege of seeing the thing they ALREADY FUCKING PAID FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Just to clarify, I am neither part of his audience or a backer.
That’s the bleakest thing I’ve heard all day.
The Sarkeesian obsession continues…
Remember the fake director’s commentary Matt Lees did for the teaser or trailer or whatever it was? I wonder if we could get some crowd funding going to pay him to do that for the full length movie… pretty sure that’s the only way I’d be up for watching it. And regardless, there’s NO way I’m putting money in Owen’s pocket for the “privilege” of doing so.
Out of interest, do his backers have to pay the $3.99 or do they get it free?
Not to mention you’ll have to fight to keep yourself awake.
Unrelated to anything – well, actually, kinda related, now that I think about it – Matt Damon just hit the mansplaining/whitesplaining twofer by (grossly inaccurately) explaining how diversity in filmmaking works to Effie Brown, a black female producer. Matt Damon, you are a racist sexist twit.
Remember to take breaks and stay hydrated.
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Heyyyyy, just to take a break from this drivel:
SEX ROBOT SEX ROBOT SEX ROBOT
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482
@katz
Maybe someone at the NYP saw this and was inspired?
http://feministing.com/2013/03/26/8-edgy-post-feminist-pitches-for-the-traffic-hungry-editor/#more-60904
I just watched a Jordan Owen video that wasn’t part of the Owen/Aurini meltdown, but a rebuttal of Sarkeesian’s recent women as reward trope video.
My goodness that man is boring and obtuse, I had to quit halfway through as he kept arguing with his imaginary straw feminist audience, and showing a complete lack of understanding of what Sarkeesian was saying.
And would it kill him to learn a script rather than just read off a laptop screen in some poorly lit room?
Cute cats though.
@franticcaps
thanks for the link to that article, I laughed out loud in several places 🙂
I looked at that one too, sn0rkmaiden – I thought he was reading a lengthy quotation from some site or other, until I realized that it wasn’t going to stop. I mean, reading from a script is how I do my documentary-style videos, but I don’t imagine that having a camera on me doing it would make for viewing that was at all compelling.
The NY Post has always (as far as I can tell) been a more-or-less right-wing paper. Since MRA-land is kinda-sorta the vanguard for a lot of right-wing discourse these days, it’s not surprising that MRA-style rhetoric would find its way to the Post.
Two and a half hours? Did Owens sit there looking at the footage thinking “This is all too good! There is literally nothing I can cut out because every single word uttered is feminism-destroying gold”?
@ Tabby
The first rule of film making is that you should always be prepared to cut your best scene; but when each scene is so good you can see how he’d struggle.
[Actually I’ve not seen it and, unless we do get a Harry S Plinkett style review, have no intention of doing]
@Tabby
Considering that his YouTube account consists of at least 14 hours’ worth of the exact same bullcrap (as of a year ago, so probably closer to 24 by now), I’m pretty sure he doesn’t realise that “Editing” is even a word. =P