And? The video shows her talking about how she isn't into the video game "fandom", and she doesn't enjoy games with shooting and gore in them. And that's fair enough for her, not everyone enjoys that stuff. That doesn't invalidate experiences like playing Super Mario Bros. as a kid or what have you. I've watched Star Trek since I was a little kid and still enjoy watching it, but I've never dressed up, been to a convention, etc. I'm not part of that community. Am I a fake Star Trek fan now?
The video essentially assumes the standard for being a "gamer" is to be a part of the community and to play shooter games. That's a false standard if I ever saw one.
She raised 160k on kickstarter to do a "documentary" series on sexism in games.
She only asked for 6k, basically it blew up into a storm because people jumped on the bandwagon.
She put out very few videos over a long period of time, leading people to question whether she had anything to say or was just squandering the money. For anyone that was skeptical of her from the start it was obvious that she was going to run out of things to say really quickly being nothing more than a womens studies parrot. But she deflected by turning the issue into a professional victimhood thing where she claimed she was under attack on the internet, so she shut down all comments and the rest on her videos. Mostly this was to avoid criticism and just avoid the fact that she was not producing any worth while content.
She "claimed" she was under attack on the internet? She
was under attack on the internet. People vandalized her Wikipedia page, spammed the comments section of her videos into a wasteland, and someone even went as far as to make a Flash game on Newgrounds about literally
punching Anita Sarkeesian's face until it was all bloody and bruised.
Now, I don't really care for Anita's work myself. What snippets I've heard of it I don't really agree with. More fascinating than what Anita had to say was apparently what the gaming community had to say back to her. Abuse, rage, harassment, and more abuse. The rage started just because of her Kickstarter program, before she had even posted one of her "Tropes vs Women in Games" videos. They were reacting to the very idea that some woman thought *gasp* maybe a good number of games don't portray women ideally, and she was going to talk about it. Well, we can't have that, the community thought!
And in their efforts to criticize Anita for just wanting to talk and effectively trying to shut her up, these people made Anita bigger than she had ever hoped. If people hadn't bombarded her with the hateful language, Wikipedia vandalism, anti-Semitic slurs, etc., etc., well...she wouldn't
have the ammunition to turn it into the professional victimhood thing that you seem to think she did.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...4-Anita-Sarkeesian-The-Monster-Gamers-Created
Why care, mostly because she was promoting toxic thought, while hiding behind professional victimhood. She was legitimizing her tactics of trying to win arguments by claiming everyone who dared disagree with her were all part of a group of trolls sending her threats. and she was getting away with such nonsense in the main stream media. Of course the games press is all cowed on this issue and has been for a while, ryan perez lost his job just for questioning felicia day.
"Toxic thought"? There's this thing called "free speech". The way a lot of Anita's opponents come across is that she has no right to be talking about this at all. No. Go ahead and criticize the actual content of her videos once it gets out, I'll be right beside you. And the bit about her using other peoples' footage, criticize her for that too. But hatred and abuse just for wanting to talk about the issue at all? No. Count me out of that.
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