“Even before the Kickstarter fundraising finished she was subjected to death and rape threats….”
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Even before the Kickstarter fundraising finished she was subjected to death and rape threats. Someone made a game where players could beat her up, she was subjected to racial and sexist slurs, and she was labelled a liar and a con artist. Sarkeesian became a lightning rod for attacks from anyone pissed off at the concept of serious literary criticism of gaming, especially from a feminist perspective.
And, again, what Sarkeesian is doing is standard pop culture criticism, of the kind that films and books have been subjected to for decades
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– Tropes vs Anita Sarkeesian: on passing off anti-feminist nonsense as critique.
Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn’t exist
Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn’t exist:
Earlier this week, feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian posted the latest in a series of crowdfunded videos called Tropes vs. Women, devoted to aggregating and analyzing games that portray women as…
FFS
No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry
No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry: Content warning: This post contains graphic language, slurs and triggering content
The gaming industry gets more terrible daily and the internet is full of awful people.
Why are so many people demanding AAA titles to be all feminist and stuff when women don’t even buy those games?
The long and the short of it is… because they do. Let’s explore that thought a bit with some actual research, hm?
